HBO's Harry Potter Series Casts Peeves, Restoring a Cut Character

Peter Serafinowicz will play Peeves the Poltergeist in HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter series. Peeves is a chaos goblin who spends his life torturing and tormenting the staff and students of Hogwarts with songs, pranks and mischief, and he never appeared in the original film franchise.

Serafinowicz recently appeared in the live-action How to Train Your Dragon and is also known for playing Edgar Covington in Parks and Recreation and Denarian Saal in Guardians of the Galaxy. He also has a long history in voice work, including voicing Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace and Big Daddy in Sing and Sing 2.

The character almost made it into Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, where he was set to be played by Rik Mayall, who filmed scenes for the movie but was ultimately cut due to time constraints.

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