Harry Potter TV Series Set Leak Video Reveals New Look Diagon Alley

A UK paper has posted a large leak from the acceptable of HBO's Harry Potter TV reboot, revealing the series' lavish caller incarnation of Diagon Alley.

The large acceptable leak, archetypal published by The Sun, has present dispersed further online, wherever Harry Potter fans are poring implicit the details. The video itself encompasses a minute-long walkthrough of the agelong Diagon Alley set, wherever galore magical stores tin beryllium seen.

Diagon Alley is of people the Potter universe's main magical buying thoroughfare successful London, hidden distant from Muggles down the Leaky Cauldron pub. It is visited galore times passim the series, and looks to person been constructed a lasting acceptable for usage passim the HBO show's lengthy run.

Already, fans are comparing it to the mentation of Diagon Alley seen passim the archetypal Harry Potter movies, wherever Harry Potter archetypal receives his wand, and successful aboriginal years visits the Weasley twins' gag shop, oregon investigates its darker broadside thoroughfare Knockturn Alley.

Noticeably, the caller mentation of Diagon Alley is overmuch narrower than seen previously. It looks, really, much similar an existent London alley and little similar a movie set, though different details bash basal out.

A caller concern not antecedently mentioned successful the books oregon movies is Acciocoffee!, which looks to beryllium a barista spot with a (magical?) neon sign. At the acold extremity of the street, arsenic expected, is Gringotts Bank. This does not look excessively dissimilar to however fans person seen the determination represented previously, though is present situated successful thing of a leafy square.

Quite however this footage has managed to find its mode onto the net is inactive a mystery, arsenic filming for the bid has been kept apical secret, with codenames utilized to fell the production's little appearances connected locations astir England. Otherwise, overmuch of the sprout is being hidden down closed doors astatine Warner Bros.' Leavesden Studios, wherever this acceptable is apt located.

HBO's caller Harry Potter TV bid is expected to debut successful aboriginal 2027 with an eight-episode archetypal season. Filming began past summer, with assorted glimpses spotted by fans including enactment connected caller scenes not from the anterior movies oregon books. Indeed, past period we learned the astonishing quality that we'll beryllium seeing much of Draco Malfoy's location life, arsenic the amusement won't beryllium told from "over Harry's shoulder" similar the books oregon movies.

As for different large changes, the amusement plans diagnostic John Lithgow's Dumbledore gathering Nicolas Flamel, reintroduce History of Magic lessons with Richard Durden arsenic Professor Binns, portion Lucius Malfoy, Draco’s begetter played by Johnny Flynn, is expected to articulation the communicative successful the archetypal play of the show, earlier his instauration successful the books and movies.

Image credit: Warner Bros./HarryPotter.com

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