Movies.com have just emailed to let us know about their three part set report from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.  They have interviews with Warwick Davis, production designer Stuart Craig,  Matthew Lewis, Daniel Radcliffe, David Yates, costume designer Jany Temime and more! You can read the reports at the following links: one | two | three

Craig’s attachment to the entire series is a bit unusual but since he has designed the sets from the beginning, his eye for continuity has proven valuable. “I said to every one of [the directors], ‘You don’t have to have me,'” he laughed. “I know what we did before and how to rebuild it, but it isn’t as necessary as it appears. I think the changes of director have been exciting and stimulating and entirely good for the whole project. A change of designer would’ve produced similarly interesting results, I’m sure.”It’s been especially challenging for the filmmakers to adapt the books since many details of the final chapters had not yet been revealed. Craig said they’ve had to rebuild and revise many Hogwarts sets to accommodate additions. “When we started, there were just two novels. Not everything was known. We didn’t know [about the Room of] Requirement. Certain changes have been forced upon us. The astronomy tower’s had to pop up in the middle of the whole complex and the forecourt in front of it has had to get bigger and bigger to accommodate the battle at the end.”

As the series has gotten progressively darker, the crew has changed the color of the sets to match the films’ seriousness and emotional content. “The sets have literally gotten darker. That rather attractive sort of honey color, we’ve gone and painted out.”