**🔥 SHOCKING THE WIZARDING WORLD: HBO Max is secretly developing a series about the four founders of Hogwarts, and the leaked casting list has fans going wild!**  
Henry Cavill is being eyed for the role of Godric Gryffindor, while insider reports reveal the show will uncover an ancient secret the wizarding world has buried for centuries. 💥 That truth is rumored to be powerful enough to rewrite the entire history of Hogwarts, and it’s finally revealed below.

London, 22 November 2025 – 09:03 GMT.  
It began with a single encrypted file dropped anonymously on a private Pottermore alumni Discord at 3:14 a.m.  
Title: HOGWARTS_FOUNDERS_CASTING_GRID_v3.2_FINAL.xlsx  
Within minutes the document was everywhere. By breakfast, the wizarding internet (both Muggle and magical) was on fire.

The series, currently codenamed “Year Zero”, has been in secret development at HBO Max since February 2024. Ten episodes, $220 million budget, shot entirely in the UK and Ireland. J.K. Rowling is executive producer and has final script approval. David Yates is attached to direct the pilot. And the casting shortlist is pure dynamite:

– Godric Gryffindor – Henry Cavill (offer out)  
– Salazar Slytherin – Mads Mikkelsen (verbal agreement)  
– Rowena Ravenclaw – Anya Taylor-Joy (signed)  
– Helga Hufflepuff – Florence Pugh (in final negotiations)

But the real explosion came on page 7 of the leaked document: a one-paragraph logline stamped “CONFIDENTIAL – DO NOT SHARE”.

The ancient secret that could rewrite everything we thought we knew about Hogwarts is spelled out in forty-six words that have already broken the internet:

“The Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone, and the Invisibility Cloak were never gifts from Death. They were forged by the four Founders themselves as three parts of a single weapon meant to protect Hogwarts, then torn apart and hidden when trust between them shattered forever.”

That’s it.  
The Deathly Hallows are not ancient relics bestowed by Death. They are the original creations of Godric, Salazar, Rowena, and Helga, each Founder crafting one piece before their alliance collapsed into hatred. The series will show the moment the Hallows were broken apart, the real reason Salazar left, and why the school’s wards have been slowly failing for a thousand years.

The document also includes concept art: Cavill as a younger, wild-haired Godric forging the Elder Wand in dragon-fire; Mikkelsen as Salazar enchanting the Resurrection Stone with Parseltongue runes; Taylor-Joy weaving spells of pure logic into the Cloak; Pugh infusing it with unbreakable loyalty charms. The final image shows the four of them standing around a glowing triangular core (the original unified Hallow) before Godric smashes it with his sword.

Insiders say Rowling has been workshopping this retcon for years. The books never explicitly said the Hallows came from Death; they only repeated the fairy tale. “Year Zero” will reveal Beedle the Bard’s story was deliberate propaganda written centuries later to hide the Founders’ civil war.

Filming begins April 2026 at Leavesden, with the real Hogwarts castle model being rebuilt to 10th-century specifications. The plan is to release in late 2027, right after Fantastic Beasts officially ends.

Henry Cavill, still riding the high of his Superman restoration news, has neither confirmed nor denied. But at 09:47 this morning he posted a single Instagram story: a close-up of a ruby-encrusted sword hilt and the caption “For honor.” The official Gryffindor account immediately reposted it with a lion emoji.

Mads Mikkelsen, reached in Copenhagen, only smiled and said, “Snakes have always kept the best secrets.”

Anya Taylor-Joy is reportedly already practicing ancient runes in Welsh and Scottish Gaelic. Florence Pugh liked a tweet that read “Hufflepuff stans we are SO back.”

The leaked document ends with a note from Rowling herself:

“This is not revision. This is revelation. The truth was always there, hidden between the lines. Now the Founders will speak for themselves.”

Potterheads are losing their minds.  
#YearZero is the number-one worldwide trend.  
The old “Deathly Hallows = gifts from Death” tattoo community is in crisis.  
Someone has already started a Change.org petition titled “Do NOT retcon the Hallows” (currently at 180,000 signatures and falling).

But the tide is turning.  
Because for the first time in nearly twenty years, the wizarding world is about to grow again, and it’s growing backwards, into the fire-forged days when four friends became four legends… and then became four enemies.

The castle was built on a secret.  
In 2027, that secret comes home.