MTV has interviewed Harry Potter producer David Heyman.

“We’re following Harry and his relationship with Dumbledore and his search for this past and the puzzle and the key to defeating Voldemort,” the producer said. “We’re seeing some of Voldemort’s backstory; we’re seeing the budding romantic relationship between Harry and Ginny Weasley and the one between Ron and Hermione, as well as Malfoy.”

“The most difficult choice was to edit out some of the flashbacks in the memories that Harry explores,” Heyman explained. “Each film has to exist on its own terms, and alas, within these memories, they’re really significant and actually in the whole body of the series play a very significant part, but within the film they are detours in a way, going into a story about Voldemort, who doesn’t really appear in this film.”