Hundreds of muggles lined up for hours near Lincoln Center for yesterday's New York City premiere of Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, Part 2. E! Online featured quotes and video clips, as well as photos, from the red carpet.
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Daniel Radcliffe wore out 60-70 wands and has been through 160 pairs of glasses during the making of the Harry Potter films. These are just two of "25 surprising facts about the wizard's wands, props" presented by the Hollywood Reporter.
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In the Guardian, Naomi Alderman considered "7 things in Harry Potter I wish were real," including a time turner, magical sweets and the possibility that "every child had access to an education that helped them reach their full potential."
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Quick review before the finale: Deadline.com featured a condensed video looking back at the Potter films, and Buzzfeed showcased the "complete Harry Potter series in comic book form."
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What would Harry read? Or, more precisely: What would Daniel Radcliffe read? The Washington Post listed his favorites: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling, Germinal by Emile Zola, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson.
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"I went to the theatre and I noticed this boy in the audience--he had big eyes, and seemed to be an old soul in a young body. I knew his father, who was with him, so I called the next day to ask if he would bring Dan in to audition. What I didn't know was they'd already turned the request down once--Chris had seen him in the BBC's David Copperfield--but I persuaded Dan and his mother to come for a coffee. This boy was curious and enthusiastic and decent. But it was all about casting the group. We had three or four other boys in the mix, and several Rons and Hermiones."
--David Heyman, producer of the series, recalling the casting process for Daniel Radcliffe in a Guardian piece headlined "Ten years of making Harry Potter films, by cast and crew."