SnitchSeeker was able to interview Chris Rankin and Matthew Lewis at the recent Leeds Film Festival about Harry Potter and more! View the videos below and transcripts at the link above.

In a new interview Daniel Radcliffe discussed the Seven Potters scene in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and more! If anyone can translate this better please send it in!

For Radcliffe, it was more difficult than he expected. “First, we filmed the scene with them all. I watched and did my best to imitate them,” he said. The target of jokes behind the scenes of “Deathly Hallows”, he defends the “accusations” that he wore girls’ costumes on camera – more specifically, Fleur’s (Clemence Poesy) clothes. “It was a dress, a jacket and a bra,” jokes the actor, smiling during an interview in the studios Leavesden, about an hour from London.

Even if it is used in dark moments, the potion turns out to be a comic relief at times. In the studios, UOL Cinema followed a scene of the first “Deathly Hallows”, with Harry, Hermione and Ron after sips of potion. In the place of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint are on screen actors Sophie Thompson, David O’Hara and Steffan Rhodri. The transformation of three friends into officials from the Ministry of Magic is a tense moment of espionage. In the corridors of the Ministry, the characters are greeted by colleagues and Ron finds out, between the lines, he has a wife in danger and has to pretend to be her husband.

Thanks to SS for the tip!

Today we have two new video interviews thanks to Empire with Rupert Grint where he talks about Cherrybomb and quickly mentions Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Eddie the Eagle.

Thanks ICM for the tip!

JK Rowling has wrote a new article for Times Online called The single mother’s manifesto. In the article she discusses the government and her views on how single mothers are treated.  The article is a very political piece, obviously, so if you don’t want to read about Jo’s views on the current system in the UK, don’t.  Some segments are below, keep in mind there are pieces missing because I couldn’t very well post the whole thing.

Yesterday’s Conservative manifesto makes it clear that the Tories aim for less governmental support for the needy, and more input from the “third sector”: charity. It also reiterates the flagship policy so proudly defended by David Cameron last weekend, that of “sticking up for marriage”. To this end, they promise a half-a-billion pound tax break for lower-income married couples, working out at £150 per annum.Nobody who has ever experienced the reality of poverty could say “it’s not the money, it’s the message”. When your flat has been broken into, and you cannot afford a locksmith, it is the money. When you are two pence short of a tin of baked beans, and your child is hungry, it is the money. When you find yourself contemplating shoplifting to get nappies, it is the money. If Mr Cameron’s only practical advice to women living in poverty, the sole carers of their children, is “get married, and we’ll give you £150”, he reveals himself to be completely ignorant of their true situation.

But wait, some will say. Given that you have long since left single parenthood for marriage and a nuclear family; given that you are now so far from a life dependent on benefits that Private Eye habitually refers to you as Rowlinginnit, why do you care? Surely, nowadays, you are a natural Tory voter?

No, I’m afraid not. The 2010 election campaign, more than any other, has underscored the continuing gulf between Tory values and my own. It is not only that the renewed marginalisation of the single, the divorced and the widowed brings back very bad memories.

I’ve never voted Tory before … and they keep on reminding me why.

Emma Watson has been nominated for a Constellation Award for her work in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in the category Best Female Performance in a 2009 Science Fiction Film, TV Movie, or Mini-Series.

She is up against Aurora Buchanan (Doctor Who: Victimsight), Dakota Fanning (Push), Zoe Saldana (for Avatar AND Star Trek).

The 2010 Constellation Awards ceremony will be held at Polaris 24 on July 17th, 2010.

The results of People Tree’s Ask Emma campaign are now online and can be viewed here!  They haven’t posted Emma’s answers yet but we get to see who she picked!  They also reveal that there will be a summer collection from Emma that will also be online soon.

Thank you for all the fantastic videos you sent in asking Emma Watson your questions on Fair Trade fashion. They were all great, but unfortunately Emma couldn’t answer every question so she selected her absolute favourites!

Congratulations to:

• Keith from USA
• Freya from UK
• Justine from France
• Hanuka from Japan
• Daniel from Austria
• Julia from Holland
• Laura from USA
• Tom from UK

The winning questions and Emma’s answers will be on our website soon, when new styles of the Love From Emma summer collection go on sale!