Month: August 2025

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5 August 2025

Harry Potter full-cast audio editions casting unveiled

In April 2024, Pottermore Publishing and Audible announced a brand-new co-production of the original Harry Potter stories, revisiting the beloved listening experience for the first time ever.

Today, it was announced that the lineup for the full-cast audio production of over 200 performers will include:

  • Golden Globe Award winner Hugh Laurie as Albus Dumbledore
  • Emmy, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award winner Matthew Macfadyen as Lord Voldemort
  • Academy Award winner and Emmy Award winner Riz Ahmed as Professor Snape
  • BAFTA Award nominee Michelle Gomez as Professor McGonagall
  • Laurence Olivier Award and Critics Choice Award nominee Cush Jumbo OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) as the narrator
  • Frankie Treadaway, Max Lester, and Arabella Stanton will play Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger respectively in audiobooks one, two and three
  • Jaxon Knopf, Rhys Mulligan, and Nina Barker-Francis will assume the roles of the beloved trio (Harry, Ron, and Hermione respectively) beginning in audiobook four, carrying through to the epic conclusion

Additional cast members will be announced this autumn.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone will debut on 4th November 2025, with the following release dates for books two to seven:

  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets releases 16th December 2025
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban releases 13th January 2026
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire releases 10th February 2026
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix releases 10th March 2026
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince releases 14th April 2026
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows releases 12th May 2026

From today, all seven audiobooks are available to pre-order. For more information, head to HarryPotter.com.

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12 August 2025

Lumos celebrates its 20th anniversary year

Lumos, the international children’s charity founded in 2005 by J.K. Rowling, is celebrating its 20th anniversary year.

Lumos’ mission is to transform care systems globally and advocate for family-based solutions that help children thrive. Lumos ensures that families receive the support they need to stay together or reunite, and that children grow up in family-based settings such as foster or kinship care, not institutions.

Lumos has to date helped enable more than 280,000 children to thrive in safe and loving families, but there is still more to achieve. 

In its 20th anniversary year, Lumos will launch exciting new plans to achieve at least twice as much in half the time – to be able to positively impact more children in more countries, more quickly.

J.K. Rowling, Lumos Founder and Life President said:

I’m truly proud of what Lumos has achieved in twenty years.  I felt compelled to set up the charity after reading the newspaper article which brought to life the horrors experienced by children separated from their families and raised in harmful institutions. Lumos has now helped to ensure thousands of children have grown up in safe and loving families with the care they need and deserve. There is more to do though, so we remain relentlessly ambitious for children and for Lumos’ next chapter.

To mark this anniversary, Lumos has announced the launch of a special mini film series featuring J.K. Rowling and expert colleagues from around the globe. The first film in the anniversary series is available now.