Jamie Campbell Bower, a fast-rising young British actor, has gone to the dark side.
He's playing a vampire in Twilight sequel New Moon, and is in final negotiations to portray Gellert Grindelwald - one of the most dangerous dark wizards of all time (in Harry Potter lore anyway), second only to Voldemort.
His character will feature in the two-part Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows films that started shooting concurrently in February and will continue till late spring next year.
Those of you with doctorates in Potterology will know that the handsome Grindelwald battled Albus Dumbledore when both were 17 in 1945.
Author JK Rowling let it be known that Dumbledore was once a little bit in love with Grindelwald.
But Bower won't shoot his scenes for some time because director David Yates is concentrating on filming as many scenes with Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint as possible before Ms Watson decamps for university in September. The trio have done several action sequences, and Daniel and Emma have been working with a choreographer for some big wedding scenes that will be shot in the summer.
Meanwhile, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince hits cinemas on July 17.
The first part of Deathly Hallows is due sometime in 2010, and the second the following year.
The whole Potter movie enterprise has been a mammoth undertaking, bringing thousands of jobs to actors, directors, cameramen, technicians, carpenters, make-up artists, special-effects wizards and others in the British film industry. They're going to miss Harry when he's gone.
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