Rafe Spall to Play Arthur Weasley in Season 2 of HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ Series

The sprawling cast of HBO‘s Harry Potter series continues to grow.

The latest additions to the show are Rafe Spall, Molly Hewitt-Richards and Jasper Ambrose. All three are joining the show’s second season, which is set to begin production in the fall.

Spall (Apple TV’s Trying, The Big Short) will play Arthur Weasley, the father of Ron (Alastair Stout), Ginny (Bonnie Hill) and the rest of the Weasley kids. Hewitt-Richards will play Moaning Myrtle, a ghost who haunts part of Hogwarts and has a key role in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the source material for season two. Ambrose plays Colin Creevey, a Hogwarts student who’s a fan of Harry (Dominic McLaughlin).

Spall’s father, Timothy Spall, played Peter “Wormtail” Pettigrew in five of the Harry Potter feature films in the 2000s.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is set to premiere Dec. 25 on HBO. Based on the first book in J.K. Rowling’s best-selling series, it will follow Harry as he discovers his wizarding heritage and attends his first year at Hogwarts.

The season one cast also includes Arabella Stanton (Hermione Granger), John Lithgow (Albus Dumbledore), Janet McTeer (Minerva McGonagall), Paapa Essiedu (Severus Snape), Nick Frost (Rubeus Hagrid), Rory Wilmot (Neville Longbottom), Lox Pratt (Draco Malfoy), Leo Earley (Seamus Finnigan), Elijah Oshin (Dean Thomas), Tristan Harland (Fred Weasley), Gabriel Harland (George Weasley), Ruari Spooner (Percy Weasley), Alessia Leoni (Parvati Patil), Sienna Moosah (Lavender Brown), Finn Stephens (Vincent Crabbe), William Nash (Gregory Goyle), Warwick Davis (Filius Flitwick), Sirine Saba (Pomona Sprout), Daniel Rigby (Vernon Dursley), Bel Powley (Petunia Dursley), Paul Whitehouse (Argus Filch), Johnny Flynn (Lucius Malfoy), Bertie Carvel (Cornelius Fudge), Luke Thallon (Quirinus Quirrell), Katherine Parkinson (Molly Weasley), Amos Kitson (Dudley Dursley), Gracie Cochrane (Ginny Weasley; Hill takes over the part in season two), Richard Durden (Cuthbert Binns), Louise Brealey (Rolanda Hooch), Bríd Brennan (Poppy Pomfrey), Leigh Gill (Griphook) and Anton Lesser (Garrick Ollivander).

Kit Harington, Lenny Rush and Billy Barratt will also be part of season two as, respectively, Gilderoy Lockhart, Dobby and Tom Riddle.

Warner Bros. TV and Rowling’ Brontë Film and TV produce the series. Francesca Gardiner is the showrunner for season one and executive produces with director Mark Mylod; Rowling, Neil Blair, and Ruth Kenley-Letts of Brontë Film and TV; and David Heyman of Heyday Films.