First Harry Potter Set Photos Feature Series' Young Star and the Dursleys, as HBO TV Series Films at London Zoo

The archetypal acceptable photos showing filming of HBO's Harry Potter TV bid person deed the internet, giving fans a look astatine the series' young prima and his Muggle family, the Dursleys.

Filming took spot this week astatine London Zoo, the mounting of a cardinal country successful the archetypal Harry Potter publication wherever Harry (now played by Dominic McLaughlin) magically frees a snake and sets it escaped connected his spoiled relative Dudley.

The images are our archetypal look astatine Dudley (Amos Kitson), Aunt Petunia (Bel Powley) and Uncle Vernon (Daniel Rigby) successful costume, wearing notably dated clothes. Dudley is dressed successful a shellsuit, portion Vernon wears a patterned garment and heavy glasses, portion sporting a bushy moustache.

The characters' looks acceptable with the archetypal mounting of the books, with Dudley's 11th day being successful June 1991, a mates of months earlier Harry goes disconnected to Hogwarts for the archetypal time.

While the archetypal Harry Potter novels were launched from 1997 onwards, the series' communicative is acceptable a fewer years prior. The events of the last publication wrapper up successful 1998, earlier a flashforward epilogue featuring the main characters arsenic adults with their ain children, acceptable successful 2017.

London Zoo guests got a close-up look astatine the formed arsenic they were filmed portion wandering astir assorted exhibits. The zoo mounting volition apt beryllium 1 of the archetypal book/season's lone scenes to beryllium filmed successful public, with the bulk of the enactment owed to beryllium changeable connected the series' immense basal of operations astatine Warner Bros. Leavesdon Studios.

Indeed, it's determination that a real-life schoolhouse with country for up to 600 young formed members is present being constructed, arsenic accumulation ramps up.

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Warner Bros. and HBO's program is to crook each Harry Potter publication into its ain TV season, and movie the bid for the adjacent 8 to 10 years. The archetypal play is owed to aerial successful 2027.

HBO marked the opening of the series' filming this week with the merchandise of a photograph showing Dominic McLaughlin arsenic Harry Potter successful his Hogwarts robes. This was past followed by a archetypal look astatine Shaun of the Dead prima Nick Frost successful costume arsenic Hagrid.

Yet to glimpsed successful costume are seasoned histrion John Lithgow arsenic Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer arsenic Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu arsenic Severus Snape, Paul Whitehouse arsenic Argus Filch and Katherine Parkinson arsenic Molly Weasley.

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