A 42-year-old man has failed in his bid to be cast as Hermione Granger in the new Harry Potter TV adaption.

The HBO adaptation of JK Rowling’s wizarding novels has sparked excitement among actors worldwide, who believe that they could also rise to stardom like the original trio of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint did in their youth.

Seeing a deluge of over 30,000 applications for just a handful of roles, producers of the new series have been overwhelmed by the interest of actors.

Each day, a group of casting directors sifts through 1,000 audition tapes in search of the next Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, or Hermione Granger.

Yet, due to the overwhelming number of applicants, there have been some curious expressions of interest in the roles, particularly for the character of Hermione, including a 42-year-old man who was eliminated at the initial stage.

Had he been successful in his ambitious application, the man could have been appearing on screen next to the likes of Sir Mark Rylance, Paapa Essideu and Cillian Murphy who are all rumoured to be part of a star-studded cast.

Despite the rejection of the 42-year-old Hermione hopeful, final calls are yet to be made about roles, according to the show’s ghostwriter Francesca Gardiner.

Describing the challenge of casting as ‘daunting’, Gardiner said that the production team are aiming to closely follow the correct chronicled ages of characters from JK Rowlings original novels. 

Filming is set to begin on the new adaption in the summer of 2025 at the Warner Bros Studios near Watford, Hertfordshire, with each novel to be transformed into its own series as part of a ten-year plan.

The original films, which were produced over a decade-long period between 2001 and 2011, boasted a who’s who of British acting royalty.

From Dame Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman and Michael Gambon to Robbie Coltrane and Miriam Margolyes, the new TV series is anticipated by many to possess a similarly stirring roll call.

This sentiment has been backed up by comments from series director Mark Mylod, who previously worked on HBO’s gripping show ‘Succession’.

‘We are going to follow the ethos of the films to source some of the finest British talent and brilliant theatre actors that we are lucky to have over generations’, Mylod said.

Despite no final decisions around casting having been made, there have been a number of reports in US industry publications regarding the big names approached by HBO.

The LA-based magazine Variety reported that Sir Mark Rylance was approached to take on the mammoth role of Hogwarts headmaster Dumbledore.

Meanwhile, the Hollywood Reporter has written that Paapa Essideu has been earmarked as the next Severus Snape, with Irish Oscar winner Cillian Murphy in line to appear as the franchise’s antagonist Voldemort. 

However, as revealed by the MailOnline earlier this year, JK Rowling is set to have the final say on all the major casting decisions. 

It is not just the cast of the wizarding world which fans can expect to change though, with some differences to Hogwarts Castle itself also on the cards.

HBO’s Mark Mylod said that the first eight-hour series will explore the famous castle in great detail, showing its ‘depths and crevices’ to viewers.

Aiming to reflect how Hogwarts would evolve over time, Mylod said: ‘Our approach is not to undermine what was done previously but evolve it’. 

‘We don’t want to mess with the Great Hall built in 900AD but will expand other elements of Hogwarts to explore the idea that if it was a real college then it would have evolved to include elements of Georgian architecture, for example’.