Hero Complex has posted their newest Potter blog, this entry is an interview with Warwick Davis who plays Professor Flitwick and Griphook! Some pieces of the interview may be read below.

The first of those films arrives Nov. 19, and Davis says it’s a bittersweet sensation to leave Hogwarts for good. “It feels like we’ve all graduated, and we’re all going off to university or going on to get a proper job in the world,” Davis said. “It was so much like that, just leaving people. We’ve all grown together over the last 10 years, and it was a really sad day, the last day… There was this sort of stunned silence afterward, when we all sort of realized, that’s it. Tears were shed.”

“As an actor, especially working in sci-fi/fantasy films, you have to be able to tap into that childlike quality again and be able to picture the dragon that’s standing in front of you, even though it won’t be until you sit down and watch it in the cinema,” he said. “You have to be in touch with the child that’s within you and use your imagination. Kids do that all the time. They’re always imagining things.”

Davis said he tried to portray Flitwick and Griphook with the same care, seeking descriptions from the books he could use on screen. “There were just some very, very key words that described Flitwick that were very useful and stayed with me throughout the whole series of films: He’s a ‘gnome-like wizard,’” Davis said. “‘Gnome-like’ is kind of the sense that he’s not entirely human. … He’s slightly quirky and a little bit out of the ordinary. Eccentric, even. You kind of take an initial little bit like that, and you sort of embellish upon it.”

It was the “beautiful little details,” like the diminutive professor lecturing his charms class from atop a pile of books, that brought Flitwick to life, Davis said. “It’s probably what I would end up doing,” joked Davis. “Many of the students would be taller than I was, or certainly taller than Flitwick was. To get up on the books there would be exactly what he needed. Although, I’m slightly baffled why he didn’t just levitate.”

Davis said he relished his new role as the goblin Griphook, a Gringotts Wizarding Bank worker and “a devious, mischievous scoundrel.” “You don’t know where you are with a goblin,” he said. “That’s one of their character traits.”