Since it is now August 24th in the UK it is time to wish our favorite red head, Rupert Grint, a VERY happy 22nd birthday!  We wish Rupert a very happy birthday and hope that this coming year he will be even more of a success.  This should be no problem seeing as he has a bunch of new film projects as well as the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I premiere in November.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUPERT!!!

Thanks very much to Evette for writing a very nice in-depth review/synopsis of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I exclusively for us!  You can read the full thing here and a spoiler free part below.

The movie is still an unfinished product, with some half-done CGI and borrowed soundtrack (my friend, who hadn’t heard the announcement, wondered why Harry Potter was playing soundtrack from Batman), but even with these, it was hard not to get drawn into the story and the narrative. Fans definitely have plenty to look forward to when the movie comes out.

For the spoiler-averse, here’s a paragraph that doesn’t give anything away: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows does an interesting job of interspersing the dire with the day-to-day, and I believe they were able to pull this off simply by letting the characters be themselves. There were many things that it successfully brought alive from the book, although purists may not quite agree with some plot lines that were cut here or there in favor of shorter, more movie-friendly methods of story-telling. By itself it feels like a complete story, which some may worry about considering it’s only the first half of a book, and quite an enjoyable one at that, as it stays faithful to the David Yates-directed films that came before it.

Ellie Darcey-Alden has been listed to play young Lily Evans in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II.  As most of you will recall, Young Lily is present in the memory that Snape gives to Harry at the end of the film.

Thanks SnitchSeeker!

I have decided to just create a post for all of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I test screening reports.  Below there will be links to a page that will contain all the reviews and by clicking the links you can get to each report.

• Report by Mugglenet reader Kyle
• Report by Snatcherman (thanks SS!)
• Report by Gaby
• Report by Mugglenet
• Report by TLC
• Report by ComingSoon reader Kyle

Today, in Chicago, the first Deathly Hallows Part I test screening took place and reports are starting to appear online!  If you don’t want to know spoilers do not finish reading this post! One fan, Gaby, has already posted some facts on her Twitter and will be writing a report for Mugglenet. (I will keep editing as she adds more tweets)

• The movie wasn’t completely finished yet. You saw green screen in some parts & the effects aren’t done. The music wasn’t real either.
• One of my fave scenes? Harry cheering up Hermione by dancing with her in the tent. (Was that in the book?)
• I saw more of Voldemort in this movie than ever.
• When Harry opened the locket horcrux, that was disturbing. Especially for Ron who had to kill it. It was like a Harry/Hermione shipper dream
• Dobby’s death? I sobbed like a baby. D’: Every scene Dobby was in, the audience clapped. Never realized how much he was loved.
• Ron & Harry’s fight was hard to watch. Poor Hermoine was devastated. But you could see how worn out Ron was. You couldn’t blame him.
• Bellatrix is nuts as always. Totally cringed when she was torturing Hermione. (But Helena Bonham Carter is just too good)
• Idk if I saw this right but was Hermione topless when she was making out with Harry when the locket was opened?
• Also, I think there may have been a “Twilight” reference. You guys can judge when you read it in my review later.

If you attended please feel free to send in a report!

Thanks to thedeathlyhallows.ru, we have six new high resolution photos and one new medium quality photo from the Fall Preview issue of Entertainment Weekly!  In the photos we see Harry, Albert Runcorn, Xenophilius Lovegood, Rufus Scrimgeour, Bathilda Bagshot and Gregorovich.   View them all in the gallery!