Matthew Lewis along with Tom Felton, Evanna Lynch, and Jessie Cave will be signing copies of the Half-Blood Prince DVD at the HMV store on Oxford Street, in London, England, on December 6th. The event will be held from 4pm – 6pm for 450 fans.

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Warner Bros released a new clip of Rupert Grint, at 12 and 21 years old, talking about McGonagall’s chess set from the first film.

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Het Nieuwsblad, a Belgian magazine, visited the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows set recently and spoke to Tom Felton and Bonnie Wright about the sixth and seventh films.  Thanks to SS for the partial translation below:

Tom Felton: We still have several months filming. The last scene we will probably be filming the scene 19 years later is playing. I’m very curious how we all will be.

Bonnie Wright: I’m looking forward to returning to King’s Cross station. I had my first scene for the first Harry Potter movie ten years ago. I hardly knew then what acting was. I especially remember that I was freezing.

Tom: We’ve spent more than ten years together on this film set. We have grown up here. It will be strange to say goodbye.

Bonnie: Who knows, we can have a reunion in about ten years. What became of the actors? Maybe we’ll play together in the Harry Potter musical. (Laughs)

Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Bonnie Wright, and Tom Felton were interviewed on the set of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by an Australian television show to promote the release of the Half-Blood Prince DVD.  They talk about Half-Blood Prince and the final two movies for Deathly Hallows.

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Warner Brothers has released several Hi-Res scenes from the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Download them below:

Fight for his life
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Great Goalie
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Jealousy
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Kiss
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Most Dangerous Potion
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Aragog’s funeral
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Trying out for the Team
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The Telegraph has made up a list of the “100 books that defined the noughties“.  Deathly Hallows has been named the number 1 book.  The article also goes on to say, “Never in the history of bookselling has there been such a phenomenon as Harry Potter; JK Rowling’s series sold in tens of millions and appealed to adults as well as children.”

1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by JK Rowling
Bloomsbury, 2007 £8.99
If you don’t know what a Muggle is by now, you’re either Rip van Winkle or enormously stubborn. This is the seventh and final instalment in Rowling’s record-breaking series about Harry Potter, the world’s most famous lightning-scarred boy wizard and his tribulations with Lord Voldemort. We’ve seen Harry grow from a spindly, messy-haired 11-year-old into a heroic young adult. Children have grown up with him, finding in his battles metaphors for their own. This volume alone sold 15 million copies in the first 24 hours after it was published. Whether wickedly skewering suburbia, or bringing Harry, Ron and Hermione into mortal danger, Rowling is never less than absorbing. Some may sneer at her books, but they are triumphant sagas about the defeat of evil that tap into our basic hunger for stories. Most importantly, she makes reading a 700-page book seem easy. This one even has a quotation from Aeschylus as its epigraph. It stands as a cornerstone of the decade, a melding of high and low culture that appeals to all ages and nations.

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