A press release is now online and it announces the guest list for the London premiere of Half-Blood Prince, which will take place Tuesday, July 7, at the Odeon Leicester Square at 6pm BST.
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Bonnie Wright, Tom Felton, Helena Bonham Carter, Helen McCrory, Alan Rickman, Michael Gambon, Robbie Coltrane, Jim Broadbent, Hero Tiffin, Natalia Tena, David Thewlis, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters, Jessie Cave, Evanna Lynch, Matthew Lewis, director David Yates, producers David Heyman and David Barron, and author J.K. Rowling will be attending.
Guy Henry has been cast as Minister for Magic Pius Thicknesse in Deathly Hallows. Guy sent a report to the host of a BBC radio talk show confirming that he will play the new Minister in the final films (that segment starts at 1:15 into the broadcast).
“I’ve done the deal so I’m allowed to say, I’m going to be Pius Thicknesse! The new Minister of Magic in the final two Harry Potter films. Very exciting. First day of filming, July 27th!”
WB has released an exclusive new wallpaper only for their newsletter subscribers, so naturally I recieved it, ;). You can see the wallpaper, here in the gallery!
You can also go here to download a Harry Potter widget!
MTV has yet another article online called Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince’: What Plotlines Need To Be Included To Make Us Happy. They mention SPEW, Narcissa Malfoy, Kreacher, Quidditch, and Occlumency. They say “But since the early films were being made while the “Harry Potter” series was still incomplete, some plot oversights will need to be rectified in order for major events to occur in the final three films. Here are a few that need to find their ways back.” Here is what I agree most with:
Occlumency: In “OotP,” Professor Snape teaches Harry occlumency so Harry can keep Voldemort out of his mind. Though the lessons don’t go as planned, Harry does delve into Snape’s mind once to see his worst memory: Snape as a schoolboy at Hogwarts being harassed by Harry’s father James and calling Harry’s mother Lily a “mudblood,” one of the worst insults in the wizarding world. Harry misinterprets the importance of the scene — as did the filmmakers behind “OotP,” who only left in small fragments of the flashback and left out Lily altogether. The true importance comes as one of the biggest moments of the series at the end of “Deathly Hallows” — and makes Snape arguably the most interested characters in the “Harry Potter” universe.
The BBC Press Office has released excerpts from Friday Night with Jonathan Ross‘ interview with Emma Watson, that will air tonight on BBC1 at 10:35pm BST. I will have a video up as soon as it comes online.
In an exclusive TV interview Emma Watson said she hated her long-anticipated screen kiss with fellow Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint: “I pounced on him, I was so desperate to get it over with.” She didn’t think she’d ever be Hermione: “By the time I got to audition, I was in pieces, I didn’t know I had the part.” And she denies she missed out on childhood: “I never felt like I was missing out… we were able to be kids because we were together, whatever weird thing we were doing.”
Emma confirms her future lies in acting: “Definitely… I’m so excited about going to university but it doesn’t mean to say I can’t do something else, I want to have my cake and eat it… I’d like to try comedy.”
