You’d have to be a recluse if you have not yet heard that the final Harry Potter movie hits screens this month, Warner Brothers have, after all, inundated us with trailers, posters and featurettes; there seems to be a new one every week… not that we’re complaining!
So with two weeks to go, Warner Brothers have continued their ploy to incite insurmountable levels of Potter frenzy and have released two new featurettes both of which include unseen footage that will hopefully placate Potter enthusiasts until the big day.
We’ll take them one at a time.
Elements of the first featurette, ‘Horcruxes’, may prove slightly disappointing for avid fans and is perhaps better suited to the small minority who have, as of yet, failed to pick up a Potter novel and flick through the pages.
Its here the trio’s plan to destroy the Horcruxes (“an object in which a person has concealed part of their soul”) is explained. The explanation may prove a little late considering ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One’, in which the trio’s plan was initiated, has been out for over six months.
Ralph Fiennes, the man behind the Voldemort mask, explains, “Voldemort knows that as each Horcrux is destroyed, he loses his power and is diminished to nothing. Once he realises Harry is on to his secret, then there is a sort of urgency.”
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The second featurette entitled ‘Gringotts and Goblins’ is more enlightening. David Yates and the crew discuss the logistics behind the ‘Bank Heist’; a set that required 45 full prosthetic makeup’s as men were transformed into goblins.
Harry, Ron and Hermione break into Belletrix Lestrange’s Gringotts vault, aided by the invisibility cloak and Polyjuice potion, in the hope of destroying another Horcrux. It is thought the scene will open the latest movie before the action is carried over to Hogwarts.
Surly now you’re getting excited? If not, chances are Warner Brothers will continue their teasing with another featurette in the coming weeks.
‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two’ is out on July 15.
