Mysterious Spoilers For Half-Blood Prince!
First of all, HPANA has confirmed something I posted on HPN last week - that one frame from the Harry Potter Trailer appears to show Fenrir Greyback hiding in a field. I believe this is from the "Attack on the Burrow" that they have added to the beginning of the movie.
Fenrir Greyback Lurking
This comes from Snitchseeker
Virgin Media have a new slideshow with 10 Half-Blood Prince facts from the upcoming movie, including information about the film and an indication that we may find out new things about Harry at the end of the movie.
Read the mysterious list under the cut, thanks to Steelsheen on the Snitchseeker Forum. Most of it is stuff I had seen before, but there is something about the Inferi, and something about the last scene that sounds intriguing!
Edit: I was sleep deprived when I posted this, and now I realize it is riddled with errors. I have added notes about what is true and false. It's sort of fun to mock this, so go for it. :)
Ten Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince facts
What to expect in the new Harry Potter movie
The movie starts with some serious fisticuffs, involving the demolition of a major London landmark. What's more, the Death Eaters, the cowled servants of evil wizard Lord Voldemort, have a much bigger role to play on screen, leading to some epic battles between them and the heroic Hogwarts wizards.
Confirmed.
Our heroes are no longer kids. As they are growing up they are discovering 'the other sex'. Harry starts fancying Ginny, Ron's younger sister, while Ron himself is paired up with new girl Lavender Brown. Oooooh, snogging!
Ack - that's confirmed.
The movie-makers are already promising chills regards the Inferi, the undead corpses Harry must grapple with in order to gets his hands on a much-needed device. "They're horrible," actor Daniel Radcliffe told Empire magazine. "It's that terrible look of a body that's wasted away, but not a skeleton."
True if Dan said that.
If you thought Prisoner Of Azkaban was a touch dark then consider this - Guillermo Del Toro, the award-winning Mexican director behind such spine-tingling movies as The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth, was originally due to direct the movie. Now that would have been creepy...
True but inconsequential.
Britain's favourite character actor, Jim Broadbent, makes his Potter debut. He plays former Hogwarts potion teacher Horace Slughorn, a tragic character who returns to Hogwarts to take over the jinxed job of teacher of Dark Arts.
Made of Wrong!!! Slughorn teaches Potions and Snape teaches DADA, of course!!!
Lucius Malfoy, the father of Harry's school arch-rival Draco, sits this movie out (well, he is in prison). Apparently actor Jason Isaacs, so upset at being left to languish in chokey, appeared on bended knee in front of author JK Rowling at an awards dinner and begged to be let back in the action. Rowling then agreed to free him in the first chapter of the final novel.
A story that grows in the telling, but Jason Isaacs is funny and I love him.
Quidditch is back. The Hogwarts school sport which pits wizard against wizard in a broomstick-flying mix of football, hockey and dog-fighting returns in a much-awaited scene, having been frustratingly absent from the Order Of The Phoenix.
I wasn't frustrated from lack of Quidditch, but that's just me.
Apparently, JK Rowling, on reading through the script for the new movie, came across a reference to Dumbledore, having a crush on a girl in his youth. She then told the movie-makers that was in fact gay, and that the Hogwarts head honcho's only crush was on a male wizard called Grindelwald. She made this news public at a conference for the launch of the last Potter book, The Deathly Hallows.
True.
If you thought that you knew everything about Harry Potter then think again, producers have hinted that some new revelations about the boy wizard will be revealed in the closing minutes of Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince! Ooooh...
Probably another glaring error! You probably mean that the big revelation is about Snape. . . you know, name-of-the-movie guy, wink, wink. The Prince Guy. Unless WB has changed that part of the story too, which really would make it a tragedy.
Fenrir Greyback Lurking
This comes from Snitchseeker
Virgin Media have a new slideshow with 10 Half-Blood Prince facts from the upcoming movie, including information about the film and an indication that we may find out new things about Harry at the end of the movie.
Read the mysterious list under the cut, thanks to Steelsheen on the Snitchseeker Forum. Most of it is stuff I had seen before, but there is something about the Inferi, and something about the last scene that sounds intriguing!
Edit: I was sleep deprived when I posted this, and now I realize it is riddled with errors. I have added notes about what is true and false. It's sort of fun to mock this, so go for it. :)
Ten Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince facts
What to expect in the new Harry Potter movie
The movie starts with some serious fisticuffs, involving the demolition of a major London landmark. What's more, the Death Eaters, the cowled servants of evil wizard Lord Voldemort, have a much bigger role to play on screen, leading to some epic battles between them and the heroic Hogwarts wizards.
Confirmed.
Our heroes are no longer kids. As they are growing up they are discovering 'the other sex'. Harry starts fancying Ginny, Ron's younger sister, while Ron himself is paired up with new girl Lavender Brown. Oooooh, snogging!
Ack - that's confirmed.
The movie-makers are already promising chills regards the Inferi, the undead corpses Harry must grapple with in order to gets his hands on a much-needed device. "They're horrible," actor Daniel Radcliffe told Empire magazine. "It's that terrible look of a body that's wasted away, but not a skeleton."
True if Dan said that.
If you thought Prisoner Of Azkaban was a touch dark then consider this - Guillermo Del Toro, the award-winning Mexican director behind such spine-tingling movies as The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth, was originally due to direct the movie. Now that would have been creepy...
True but inconsequential.
Britain's favourite character actor, Jim Broadbent, makes his Potter debut. He plays former Hogwarts potion teacher Horace Slughorn, a tragic character who returns to Hogwarts to take over the jinxed job of teacher of Dark Arts.
Made of Wrong!!! Slughorn teaches Potions and Snape teaches DADA, of course!!!
Lucius Malfoy, the father of Harry's school arch-rival Draco, sits this movie out (well, he is in prison). Apparently actor Jason Isaacs, so upset at being left to languish in chokey, appeared on bended knee in front of author JK Rowling at an awards dinner and begged to be let back in the action. Rowling then agreed to free him in the first chapter of the final novel.
A story that grows in the telling, but Jason Isaacs is funny and I love him.
Quidditch is back. The Hogwarts school sport which pits wizard against wizard in a broomstick-flying mix of football, hockey and dog-fighting returns in a much-awaited scene, having been frustratingly absent from the Order Of The Phoenix.
I wasn't frustrated from lack of Quidditch, but that's just me.
Apparently, JK Rowling, on reading through the script for the new movie, came across a reference to Dumbledore, having a crush on a girl in his youth. She then told the movie-makers that was in fact gay, and that the Hogwarts head honcho's only crush was on a male wizard called Grindelwald. She made this news public at a conference for the launch of the last Potter book, The Deathly Hallows.
True.
If you thought that you knew everything about Harry Potter then think again, producers have hinted that some new revelations about the boy wizard will be revealed in the closing minutes of Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince! Ooooh...
Probably another glaring error! You probably mean that the big revelation is about Snape. . . you know, name-of-the-movie guy, wink, wink. The Prince Guy. Unless WB has changed that part of the story too, which really would make it a tragedy.