In a world of endless restarts, renewals and almost all studios of continuously bandaging on reliable IPs, it was only a matter of time until Poudwarts was revisited on the screen. Despite the Controversy surrounding the involvement of the author JK Rowling In the project, HBO gets ahead with a planned series of seven “Harry Potter” seasons for Max, with each episode settling to adapt a different book from the original literary saga. With the date of first in 2026 planned on the horizon, the program added starry names to the distribution, including John Lithgow like Albus DumbledoreNick Frost like Rubeus Hagrid, and Paapa essiedu like severus snape.

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In addition, all these actors join the world of wizards for the first time, so the series should feel different from previous cinematographic adaptations due to fresh faces playing such emblematic characters. However, some explosions of the past return to the fold, although in different roles. More specifically, Paul Whitehouse – who was interpreted as a grumpy guardian of Hogwarts, Argus Filch – played a different character in Warner Bros. ‘Saga of the film “Harry Potter”.

Of course, you would be forgiven not to know that, because his scenes have never entered the final cuts of the films. So, for those of you who are curious to know the anecdotes of the world of deep wizards, let’s discover who Whitehouse described in the original films of “Harry Potter”.

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One of the advantages of restarting the “Harry Potter” franchise as a television series is to be able to include more materials and characters from the original books. While the films have many bits characters like almost Headless Nick (John Cleese) and Fat Lady (Dawn French), some of their ghostly and painted counterparts were omitted from finished products. One of the most notable examples is Sir Cadogan by Paul Whitehouse, who has only one scene deleted in “Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban”.

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For those who do not know the original stories of “Harry Potter”, Cadogan is a knight and a sorcerer who was immortalized like a painting located in the Hogwarts divination corridor. The scene deleted in question of “Azkaban” shows him to grasp his sword and prepare for the battle before tripping, which implies that he is clumsy. However, the tradition of the world of wizards declares that it was courageous to its peak, when it was beating the Wyvern of Wye Dragon in combat.

Whitehouse may not have had her chance to shine as a knight in the movies, but playing Filch will give him more to do in the television series. After all, the goalkeeper still travels the corridors of Hogwarts with his faithful feline at his side, ensuring that Hogwarts students behave themselves. As such, viewers can hope that Harry and his friends have intense exchanges with the old crank.

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