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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

let me give you a nice review on Harry Potter's latest new and last book which i got from an article from Newsweek:

Newsweek 26 February 2007

"Watch Very Carefully"

Even obsessive "Harry Potter" fans have barely noticed that Hogwarts has had a makeover from the first two films. Oscar-winning art director Stuart Craig, who has designed all five "Potter" movies (including this summer's "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"), agreed to share a few of those changes with NEWSWEEK:

- Hagrid's house was an octagonal one-room hut in the first film, but Craig added a bedroom in the back

- The main entrance to Hogwarts is new. The first movie used a real location, Christ Church College at Oxford. For the second film, it was replaced with a built set.

- Hogsmeade Station has been reconceived for "Phoenix". It had been an actual location in the North Yorkshire moors. For this film, Craig created a new set in the woods near Pinewood Studios.

- The trees in the Forbidden Forest are bigger. And speaking of growth, the beds in the Gryffindor dormitory have been extended - ditto the classroom desks - to keep pace with actors who've become teens.

Craig is now designing sets for the sixth film, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". But he's anxious for J.K. Rowling's seventh, and final, book in the series, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", due in stores July 21. "We need to know which sets to retain for the last film," he says. Not that he'll get an early peek. "I just have to go to the bookshop" - like every other fan.

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