--- title: Kit Harington Has Always Wanted to Play Harry Potter description: Kit Harington is pretty much universally recognized as the one and only Jon Snow. But it turns out he has always dreamed of playing Harry Potter. canonical: https://time.com/5391563/kit-harington-jon-snow-harry-potter/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-10T15:12:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:46.077Z og:title: Jon Snow Wants to Play Harry Potter So What's the Holdup? og:description: From the King in the North to the Boy Who Lived og:url: https://time.com/5391563/kit-harington-jon-snow-harry-potter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef712e16b24f84e9/698939d4fb4eac82b48979ae/jon-snow-harry-potter-diptych.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Jon Snow and Harry Potter og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jon Snow Wants to Play Harry Potter So What's the Holdup? twitter:description: From the King in the North to the Boy Who Lived twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef712e16b24f84e9/698939d4fb4eac82b48979ae/jon-snow-harry-potter-diptych.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jon Snow Has 'Always Wanted' to Play Harry Potter So What's the Holdup?  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 10, 2018 3:12 PM UTC  HBO; Warner Bros.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 10, 2018 3:12 PM UTC After seven seasons of [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/4913247/game-of-thrones-season-8-premiere-date/), [Kit Harington](http://time.com/5336938/kit-harington-on-game-of-thrones-finale/) is pretty much universally recognized as the one and only [Jon Snow](http://time.com/5187572/game-of-thrones-emilia-clarke-targaryen-kit-harington-drinking/). But it turns out the King in the North has always dreamed of playing another beloved literary character. Whilepromoting his new movie _The Death and Life of John F. Donovan_ at the Toronto International Film Festival, Harington told [_Entertainment Weekly_](https://ew.com/tv/2018/09/09/kit-harington-why-keeping-game-of-thrones-look/)that he has long aspired to take on the role of Harry Potter. “I always wanted to be in a Potter movie,” he said. “I always wanted to be Harry Potter.” At this point, the 31-year-old Harington is too old to portray the Boy Who Lived during his Hogwarts years. But there’s no reason he couldn’t pass as adult Harry in _The Cursed Child_ play. However, he may have to put this particular dream on hold until the _Thrones_ team finally allows him to shave off Jon’s signature facial hair. “We just finished filming. You can’t tell because I look exactly the same,” he said before joking, “They own me; they’ve just kept me like this.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5391563/kit-harington-jon-snow-harry-potter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5391563/kit-harington-jon-snow-harry-potter/"},"headline":"Jon Snow Has 'Always Wanted' to Play Harry Potter So What's the Holdup?","datePublished":"2018-09-10T15:12:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:46.077Z","description":"From the King in the North to the Boy Who Lived","url":"https://time.com/5391563/kit-harington-jon-snow-harry-potter/","keywords":["Newsfeed","game of thrones","movies","Pop Culture","Harry Potter","Kit Harington"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef712e16b24f84e9/698939d4fb4eac82b48979ae/jon-snow-harry-potter-diptych.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef712e16b24f84e9/698939d4fb4eac82b48979ae/jon-snow-harry-potter-diptych.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jon Snow and Harry Potter","caption":"Jon Snow and Harry Potter","creditText":"HBO; Warner Bros.","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5391563/kit-harington-jon-snow-harry-potter/","name":"Jon Snow Has 'Always Wanted' to Play Harry Potter So What's the Holdup?"}}]}] ```