HBO's Harry Potter series is currently filming in the UK and is expected to continue for the coming months. As that happens, the HBO show continues to be in conversation almost every week, as rumors circulate on the internet regularly. But the latest rumor involving actor Tom Turner gained such huge traction that HBO denied it through Deadline on the midnight of November 6, 2025.The rumor suggested that the HBO series would have a narrator who would take the viewers through the events, like the books did. However, it seems that this rumor was confirmed as just misinformation.The latest Harry Potter rumor explained: View this post on Instagram Instagram PostLast Friday, on October 31, 2025, Redanian Intelligence, an online blog, published a report stating that the HBO series was going to employ narration as a device, where someone off-screen was going to narrate the events unfolding on the screen. The blog said that The Crown and Anatomy of a Scandal's Tom Turner is in the HBO series as the narrator.This rumor had the Potter fandom divided, as they thought the series was going to be a show. Shows usually don't have narrators explain the events on the screen continuously. Shows employ narrators, but we hear them only in between, as was the case with How I Met Your Mother. But the rumor suggested that Turner's narrator had a larger role.But Deadline confirmed that's not the case. Therefore, it probably means that we are getting a show without a narrator like it were a book.What do we know about the HBO series? View this post on Instagram Instagram PostWe know that the HBO series has been greenlit for seven seasons, with each season adapting a book in the franchise. The first season adapts the first book in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. But the first season also includes characters like Lucius Malfoy and Cornelius Fudge. Their presence serves as a setup for their roles in the upcoming seasons that will adapt the other six books.Moreover, we are also getting characters and events that were only mentioned in the books. Some fans who have filmed BTS footage have suggested that fans may see the events leading to Lilly and James Potter's death in Godric's Hollow. Moreover, we also saw John Lithgow's Albus Dumbledore meet Lambert Wilson's Nicolas Flamel and Marthe Keller's Perenelle Flamel for a scene that was mentioned in the Philosopher's Stone book.Therefore, the HBO show has made enough alterations that could make sense to the overall storyline for the series. Some characters can be introduced already in the first season, as we already know where they will go in the seventh season, thanks to the books."Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry’s eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!"The Harry Potter show is still currently filming, and therefore, we don't have a release date yet. However, the books and eight movies are still available as the show's production continues for the coming months.