As most of you probably know, The Harry Potter Alliance is a charitable organization run by some very awesome Potter fans. The object of the organization is to use themes from the Harry Potter novels to get people of all ages interested in world issues. Some of their past campaigns include Accio Books and Helping Haiti Heal.
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In another new interview with MTV, Warwick Davis talks about what it has been like working on the Harry Potter films.
“I think all of my favorite moments are in the last two films,” Davis said. “I got to do some really interesting and important things, which is nice. Previously in the films, it’s always been great to be there, but normally I’ve been the kind of comic relief. I’ve had silly, fun things to do, which have been very memorable,” he explained. “It’s wonderful. People always remember those moments, but I felt having Griphook and Flitwick [in the final two films] — I have much more bearing and importance on the plot as well.”
Davis added that the absolute best moment for him was both surreal and emotional. “People who’ve read the books will know this (spoiler alert), but the moment where Voldemort exclaims that Harry Potter is dead … to have read that and to actually be there as it’s happening, that was quite emotional and quite surreal. It sends a shiver down your spine because you’re standing there and witnessing this event. It’s almost like reading the newspaper going back in time, witnessing a world-changing event.”
In a new interview with MTV, Bonnie Wright speaks about what it is like playing Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter films.
“Being the person who sort of ends up with the hero of this franchise is never something I ever would have imagined,” she said of her character becoming Harry’s love interest. “It’s just been so exciting, so lovely to have something that develops further, and you can make [Ginny] my own and take things from your own life growing up and put those things into it.”
Regarding the much-discussed, heavily hyped epilogue, Wright said the “full-on scene” is a fitting end to the series because the filmmakers chose to shoot it as a stand-alone ending, not just a background for the end credits. She added that one of her last scenes in the epilogue was a particularly surreal moment, because her character started and ended her “Potter” journey in the same place.
“It wasn’t my last scene, but it was one of my last scenes. That’s where I started the journey of ‘Harry Potter,’ on the platform, and then to see the girl who’s playing our daughter was just psychologically, it was very weird, because she’s the same age as me. It was literally having a whole cycle of the journey.”
Wright hopes audiences will appreciate that final scene as much as she did.
“I hope it’s well-received. In terms of the prosthetics and creativity of it, they took months and months — I must have done 100 tests and costume fittings. A lot of energy went into making that moment perfect.”
Today we have an awesome High Resolution photo of Hogwarts burning that was first seen on the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallowsone-sheet. You can see the new photo, here!
A stuntman, Greg Powell, who was working on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was recently injured on the set of the final film.
Movie action man Greg Powell, 56, suffered a broken shoulder in a motorcycle crash while filming the final installment in the wizard franchise, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II, last week (ends26Jun10).
The accident, which occurred at the Leavesden Studios in Hertfordshire, England, is said to have happened after Powell’s long trench coat became trapped in the rear wheel of the bike, sending him flying into the air, according to Britain’s The People newspaper.
Last year (09) David Holmes, who doubled for Radcliffe in the first part of the Deathly Hallows movie, broke his back at the same studios while he was practising flying scenes.
In a new interview with the Coventry Telegraph Jason Isaacs gives some “juicy” details about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Jason plays Lucius Malfoy in all of the Harry Potter films.
Isaacs confessed that wrapping up the Potter saga by filming Deathly Hallows wasn’t at all a joyous, celebratory experience. He tells us: “I was sad. I’m a bit of a sentimental buffoon, so I was already feeling tearful and nostalgic before they started months of shooting. You should really wait for the last day I think for that kind of behaviour.”But he says the films will live on: “Luckily I think the Harry Potter experience has an afterglow in that these films will be released and are coming out over a long time, until July next year. And then I have a suspicion that they’ll be in everybody’s DVD collection until the next format comes along and replaces it so I don’t think Harry Potter’s going away for a very, very long time.”
So can he reveal any juicy details about the final films? He responded with a smile: “Yes I can. I can tell you that they’re out in November [2010] and July [2011], and if you want a sneak preview of the script… go and buy the book.”
