As the anticipation begins building for next November's release of the first installment of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (part two is scheduled for 2011), USA Today featured an image from the film in which Harry, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger are "struggling to find their way in the Muggle (human) world, with their own lives in the balance and the fate of the magical realm in their hands."
"It's going to feel very real," said director Peter Yates. "We're going for a vérité approach. Being away from Hogwarts, they're like these three refugees on the run. They're out in the big bad world, facing real danger, unguarded by those wonderful benign wizards at Hogwarts. They don't have a home to go to. We're kind of pulling away from the magic a bit and bringing more reality to it."