Daniel Radcliffe revealed he has written a touching letter to the young Glasgow schoolboy who is taking over his role as Harry Potter Daniel Radcliffe has revealed on Good Morning America that he wrote a touching direct letter addressed to Dominic McLaughlin, the Scots child star who has been cast as the new Harry Potter in HBO’S television series reboot. Radcliffe, 36, will forever be known for his role as The Boy Who lived in the Warner Bros’ eight film franchise from 2001 to 2011 alongside Rupert Grint, 37, as Ron Weasley and Emma Watson, 35, as Hermione Granger. However, there is a new trio in town and Dominic McLaughlin is now stepping into his Potter shoes in the HBO series alongside Arabella Stanton, 11, as Hermione and Alastair Stout, 12, as Ron. Speaking about the HBO series, Daniel said he doesn’t expect anyone playing his former role to reach out to him but he knows a few people working on the production. Revealing how he wrote a sweet letter to 11-year-old McLaughlin, who is from the Greater Glasgow area, Radcliffe said: “I wrote to Dominic and sent him a letter and he sent me a very sweet note back.” He added: “I don’t want to be a specter in the life of these children but I just wanted to write to him to say, ‘I hope you have the best time, and an even better time than I did I had a great time, but I hope you have an even better time. “And I do, I just see these pictures of him and the other kids and I just want to hug them. They just seem so young. “I just look at them and say, ‘Oh it’s crazy I was doing that at that age.’ But it’s also incredibly sweet and I hope they’re having a great time.” Radcliffe himself was just 11-years-old when he was cast in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in 2001. He played the role of Harry Potter until he was 21-years-old in the final Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II film in 2011. The young cast of HBO’s Harry Potter series also includes many other familiar Hogwarts characters including Lox Pratt as Draco Malfoy, Alessia Leoni as Parvati Patil, Leo Earley as Seamus Finnigan, Rory Wilmot as Neville Longbottom and Amos Kitson as Dudley Dursley, among others. Join the Daily Record’s WhatsApp community here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages The BBC reported in July that Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, which is the series’ production home, built a temporary school so the young stars can keep up with their studies amid filming over the next near-decade. Each season of the show is set to cover one of J. K Rowling’s seven books. The Harry Potter series is set to debut on HBO and HBO Max in 2027.
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