The Official Harry Potter Thread

[BaBorrow]

I can't wait for this film to come out.
I hope those parents don't let their kids skip school for the matinee.
I believe, J.K. will be openin' up a new bank account as soon as this movie hits theaters.

 

[YoninahAliza]

Did anyone see J.K. Rowling on Oprah? I only got to see clips of the interview but it looks really interesting. Plus Rowling said that she wouldn't rule out writing more HP books! Which I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. Since I love the seven books and I kind of like not knowing every little detail of their lives, it allows us to imagine more. I'm just happy that the characters end up happy.

 

[juliahearts]

I looove the "nowhere is safe" posters <3 amazing!

 

[eternitygoddess]

I miss the "wizarding" part of HP. Now they're all wearing normal muggle clothes.

 

[Crakk]

Such a great series. I am sad to see it finish.

 

[Alvedansen]

JK on Oprah

 

[Alvedansen]

last part

 

[Meg2109]

I really want a copy of the poster with the trio running through the forest!
Also, who thought a Harry Potter thread could be found on The Fashion Spot! Life is complete, gotta love Potter <3

Anyone made plans for midnight releases yet for DH Part 1?

 

[YoninahAliza]

Thanks so much for putting these video clips up for us Alvedansen! I couldn't watch the whole thing until now....

 

[TianSoFine]

Amazing interview. Amazing, amazing, amazing.

 

[McClaire]

I hope these stay up because Oprah is notorious when it comes to deleting videos of her shows online.

 

[sobriquet87]

JKR is such an amazing person. She's a billionaire, but still has remained one of the most humble, most beautiful people in the entire world.

This was just released, but Deathly Hallows has received a PG-13 rating from the MPAA because of "some sequences of intense action violence and frightening images."

There's a new Deathly Hallows set report that gives some insightful details about what we can expect in the films. Here are a couple of snippets:

Director David Yates talking about a particular scene between Harry and Hermione:

He continues, “the style of Part 1 suits Part 1 because, you know, we always say these films are slightly about coming of age. But, when you take these iconic characters out of that framework of Hogwarts and you put them in this dangerous world. And they have to bury their first body, for example, or - there’s a moment in the film where Harry and Hermione dance for the first time. It’s full of proper sexual tension because they’re both teenagers and they’re at that stage where Ron’s left and there’s a sort of intimacy between them. So there are all sorts of corners that you turn because they’re young adults. And turning those corners in the real world is actually quite fun and interesting because the verity just seems to suit that.”

About the filming of the Seven Potters sequence:

As fans know, shortly before the wedding is when the Seven Potters plan goes into action. Dan had a lot to stay about this scene, which he described as one of the most “daunting” they’ve ever shot.

“It was a highly technical visual effects scene,” he told us. How can he prove it?

“The one shot was 95 takes.” The press gasps.

“Yes, you may well recoil.” The press laughs.

Dan explained for us how the scene technically worked. It was a great description but wouldn’t make sense unless you saw him explaining it with his arm movements. In a nutshell, they used a computer-controlled camera that would film the “exact same shot at the exact same time” over and over again. They used this camera for each of the seven Harry’s in the room so they could make them all appear on screen at once. It took about ten takes for each Harry - hence the 95 takes for the one shot where you see them all standing together.

About the filming of the Hermione torture scene:

Towards the end of Part 1, Bellatrix and Hermione have a moment that was shot differently than most. David Yates revealed this when he was talking about being able to pull an audience into a theatrical experience: “There’s this torturing with Bellatrix. Emma was really keen to do this torturing scene. I said ‘it will be really great, and we have to be really careful of how we do it. And [Emma] completely gave herself to the process. What we did was we set up a couple of cameras and Helena got on top of Emma. Basically she was writing ‘mudblood’ on her arm. She was scoring it into her skin.”

“We just let the whole thing roll for about three or four minutes. In that three or four minutes there were some good bits, and some not so good minutes. And there were one or two really powerful bits where Emma was able to just let go a little bit and forget that she was acting. She’s still acting, but she lost herself in this process for a moment. And the screams were quite horrible to listen to. On the stage, everyone felt uncomfortable. Everyone just sort of stepped back a bit. It was a very odd energy in the room because she was kind of exploring... exercising demons really. And serving the scene in doing that. It was really interesting.”

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[wickedcrazyness]

^That is interesting. Thank you.

 

[dajrekshn]

amazing interview - JK with Oprah i mean - good god Oprah knows how to be obnoxious.

 

[TianSoFine]

^I don't speak as an Oprah fan (I've never actually watched her show before), but she didn't come across as obnoxious to me.

 

[Zann]

I'm reallllllllly interested to see the Hermione torture scene! Just because in the book, Harry and Ron can't see what Bellatrix is doing to her. Maybe that's a reason why it's a PG13 movie? lol

 

[dajrekshn]

^I don't speak as an Oprah fan (I've never actually watched her show before), but she didn't come across as obnoxious to me.

i dunno, i find her cutting Jo off in the middle of the sentence and the constant religious allusion (as if she was pressing her to become a part of her congregation, to make her scream how she does believe in God when Jo has already said it in the beginning once and clearly wasn't going any deeper into it) throughout the talk really obnoxious. i hate it how, when she finally has someone extra intelligent, someone so imaginative who has so much interesting stuff to say as a guest, she behaves like she's on a tea break talk without any conversational manners.
sorry, i got so furious.

 

[Alvedansen]

daj: i couldn't stand Oprah in this interview at all either(it's the first i ever watched) i was honestly wondering how she could be so successful in America, i def don't need to see another Oprah show

i so wanna go to a midnight premiere but i don't know if there's even gonna be one in my hometown

 

[BaBorrow]

I hope these aren't a repost, because, they're pretty new.



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[sobriquet87]

^Those posters are AMAZING!!!! The Ron and Harry ones are HOT! The Hermione one is gorgeous. Greyback and Voldemort are SO creepy. And Snape and Bellatrix both look so bada*s. I can't wait for this movie!!

Here are two more new posters:

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