Harry Potter: A Reunion in the Magical World

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There are rumors that there is going to be another Potter movie!

The source is credible, it was published on Pottermore that a new short story has been written and people are keen on translating it into a movie! It would be like a reunion in the magical world and Harry would be having greys, turning 34!

I'll keep this space updated, so, keep coming back for more!

Harry Potter twins!

--POPSUGAR, Australia

Fred and George Weasley (James and Oliver Phelps)

James and Oliver Phelps, known for bringing twins Fred and George Weasley to the big screen in the Harry Potter films, are currently in Sydney for the launch of Harry Potter: The Exhibitionat the Powerhouse Museum. Last week they attended the media preview and opening night gala, but their time Down Under isn’t completely filled with Harry Potter commitments. Tomorrow they’ll go skydiving for a great cause, to raise money for cancer research, and we found out it’s not the first time they’ve jumped out of a plane. We chatted to the brothers this morning to talk Harry Potter memories, Diving for Harry and their Sydney highlight so far.

What’s it like for you to see all the Harry Potter props away from the movie set? 
James: It’s like a walk down memory lane, because you walk by and you see props and costumes that you forgot about, but then you remember all the fun times you had whilst you were filming scenes with them.

What’s your favourite thing to see in the exhibition? 
James: I think it’s the Deathly Hallows, to be honest with you. It’s the first place in the world that they’ve been altogether as one. When we noticed that, that was really cool. Also because it’s not that they’re [presented] in a way that one thing is bigger than the other. If you aren’t paying attention you’d probably miss it.

I heard you tried to take things, like your wand, so did you end up getting anything? 
James: I tried to take something the other day but there was a security guard . . . [laughs] I actually managed to borrow some stuff from the Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes shop.

What are some of your favourite memories from making the movies? 
James: Just having such a great time is my best memory. We with a good group of friends anyway, so it was great to experience 10, 11 years of such great fun with some really cool friends.

Did you guys ever try to trick people on set like the Weasley twins? 
James: A couple of times.

Any success? 
James: Oh yeah, we’ve got a high success rate, actually [laughs].

Who do you keep in touch with most out of the cast? 
James: Quite a bit with my brother, I guess [laughs]. We still keep in touch with Tom Felton, Rupert Grint — we still keep up with them quite a lot.

What was your experience like, growing up as twins? 
Oliver: It was always fun; I mean it was all we ever knew, and we didn’t have any other siblings. It was good because when you go away on holiday, you’ve always got someone to hang around. It came in handy with that type of stuff. And when we were at school, finding out homework, it was easier to remember. The one thing I didn’t like was how some people would, say, write a Christmas card to both of us, and stupid things like that.

In future would you guys like to work together again, or keep things separate? 
Oliver: We’d like to keep things separate in the sense of doing individual projects, but I wouldn’t write off doing film roles together. We did think at one point that maybe we wouldn’t do another film together, but a lot of the older guys on Potter were like, ‘You wanna use that, it’s like a unique quality you guys have.’

I saw on Twitter you guys are writing a bit about Diving for Harry. Can you tell us about that? 
Oliver: Sure, basically, tomorrow morning at about 8 o’clock US time James and I are gonna go skydiving. There’s a young lad who sadly passed away — he lost his battle with a brain tumour early last year — called Harry Moseley. There’s photos of James and I wearing his bracelet. He was diagnosed when he was 7, and he started raising money for cancer research. He raised over £500,000 by just selling these bracelets. It’s such an inspiring story, and we thought, after he lost his battle, anything to keep his memory going and raise money for his charity, why not do it on the other side of the world while we’re in Australia, jump out of a plane. It’s gone really well so far — we’ve already raised over £1,000 in a day. The target’s £5,000, so hopefully we’ll get there soon.

Are you guys usually adrenalin junkies? 
Oliver: Occasionally. I have done skydiving once before, about three years ago, and James has done it twice already. It’s a really big rush, and the adrenalin you get when you hit the floor is just insane. If we can raise money for a really good cause on the way, then it’s even better.

What’s your favourite thing that you’ve seen or done in Sydney? 
Oliver: We did actually go to dinner at Cafe Sydney the other day. The view from there is just absolutely outstanding. It was nice to realise that we were actually there, that type of thing. So that would probably be my favourite part.

And what’s next for you guys? 
Oliver: We’re going back to America to film some stuff out there. That’s gonna be in the new year. Until Christmas it’s going to be pretty much laying low. We’ve also got a few things to do back home — they’re trying to build a huge, high-speed railway for £30 billion, and James and I have been outspoken against it, so we’ve got some press to do with that as well

HOGWARTS about to be open

Studio opens Harry Potter world to the public
By JILL LAWLESS The Associated Press

Harry Potter stars in Hogwarts Great Hall

WATFORD, England — The magical world of Harry Potter is being meticulously reassembled at a former aerodrome near London.
The collection of sheds and sound stages is where the eight films were shot over the course of a decade, and soon they will be home to the official Making of Harry Potter studio tour.
With more than five months to go until the tour’s March 31 opening stonemasons in hard hats are busy laying the (real) flagstone floor of the Great Hall at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Even half-finished, its Gothic arches, gargoyles and huge fireplace are an impressive sight.
When it’s completed, studio Warner Bros. hopes it will be, well, magic — though the spell was briefly broken when advance tickets went on sale Thursday. Many fans found an error prevented them from booking tickets the official website. Warner Bros. blamed heavy traffic for the problem.
Movies are all about illusion, but creators of this tour are keen to stress its authenticity. The 14,000-square-metre site will include only authentic sets, props and costumes, on the original studio site 30 kilometres northwest of London.
For the movies’ cast, who spent a decade working here — the younger ones growing up on set — it can still evoke powerful feelings of nostalgia.
"I get shudders down my spine every time I walk back in there," said Tom Felton, the 24-year-old actor who played Harry’s Muggle-hating Hogwarts rival, Draco Malfoy. "Immediately, as soon as you go back it just fires up a decade’s worth of memories.
"I remember the first time I went in there — it was on camera. (Director) Chris Columbus specifically didn’t want us to see it before filming, because we were only 11-year-old kids. So, our reaction when we walked in there was pretty much genuine."
The vast Great Hall, where hundreds of Hogwarts pupils dined, celebrated, and were divided into houses by the mysterious Sorting Hat, will be the centerpiece of the tour, but there will be plenty more to delight Potter fans.
Re-erected sets will include the cupboard under the stairs where Harry was forced to sleep by his miserly relatives, the Dursleys; the imposing Ministry of Magic; headmaster Albus Dumbledore’s book-lined office; and Hogwarts’ classrooms, common room and a dormitory,
The tour is spread across two soundstages — stages J and K, a pleasing but accidental tribute to Harry’s creator, J.K. Rowling. The existing stages here at Leavesden Studios are A through I.
As well as the sets, visitors will learn how the series’ magical creatures were created in the studios’ workshops, and see some of the 200 shipping containers full of props that producers have kept from the films.
The eight Potter films made here between 2000 and 2010 were a mini-industry in themselves, employing both the cream of Britain’s acting talent and hundreds of craftspeople and technicians. Part of the tour’s aim is to show off the behind-the-scenes skill that went into creating the spectacle.
The level of detail is impressive. Dumbledore’s bookshelves are lined with individually titled books. His desk drawer opens to reveal quill-written letters and parchments that no moviegoer would ever have seen. The Weasley family kitchen will include a self-washing frying pan, enchanted knitting needles and other ingenious supernatural gadgets.
"The attention to detail and the care and the thought is breathtaking, and still is to us, even after eight films," said actor Mark Williams who played Arthur Weasley, father of Harry’s best friend Ron. "You’d go on set and go, ‘Bloody hell, it works!’
"I think people will be amazed about what was created as a physical prop rather than fixed later in the computer," added Warwick Davis, who played Hogwarts charms master Prof. Filius Flitwick and the goblin Griphook.
"Certainly for me, the filming experience on these was quite different to the work I’d done on Star Wars, in the sense that stuff was here and real," said Davis, who appeared in Return of the Jedi and The Phantom Menace.
"George Lucas would’ve built the first six feet of wall and left the rest to the computer."
Filming on the final Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, finished last year, and it was released in July, to a global wave of emotion from fans. The studio tour is a way to keep the Harry Potter machine running — but to be a success, it must avoid feeling like a cynical cash-in.
"I hope people will come on the sets and feel the warmth on the sets, and the experiences that have been here," said Bonnie Wright, who played Ginny Weasley in the films. "They’re really lived in, all the sets. They don’t feel just like a studio, they do feel like a world."
It will also be a working movie studio. The facility — for years a ramshackle collection of aging buildings and temporary structures on the site of a former aircraft factory — is being turned into Warner Bros’ British base. The company says it will be the biggest studio complex in Europe when it opens next year.
Many people feared the end of the Potter series would bring job losses in Britain’s movie industry, but Warner Bros.’ investment — which will make it the only U.S. studio with a permanent base in Britain — should bring a big boost