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Chris Columbus Hopes For a 'Harry Potter' Spinoff

Chris Columbus only directed the first two "Harry Potter" movies -- a gig he snagged after his friend Steven Spielberg passed on it -- but he was responsible for the most important decision in the entire franchise: casting Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint.

Columbus vacated the director's chair after 2002's "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" to spend more time with his own four children, though he produced the third installment, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," directed by Alfonso Cuaron.

With the final film premiering in Los Angeles on July 11, NextMovie asked Columbus – the only American "Potter" director, how he felt about the end of the franchise he launched. "I'm going to the L.A. premiere on Monday night. I couldn't do London because of ["The Help" junket] so I've waited to see the film. It's going to be very emotional."

Columbus said, "It's been very surrealistic these last few pictures, when you see a movie where you have cast the entire movie and  basically designed the whole world, and then stopped because of exhaustion, creating a sandbox that everyone else gets to play in."
"I'm mostly proud of those kids," he added, "because they have all become terrific actors. But at the same time, now I finally have enough energy to do another Harry Potter and it's over! The only thing I can hope is that Jo [Rowling] will write something else, like maybe Harry's son goes to Hogwarts."
Yes, please!

Source : http://www.nextmovie.com/blog/chris-columbus-harry-potter-spinoff/

Harry Potter World : Places 2

Beauxbatons Academy of Magic

Headmistress: Olympe Maxime
Location: France
Uniforms: robes of fine silk; attendants of the carriage wear pale blue
Coat of Arms: two crossed golden wands on a powder-blue field, each emitting three stars
The Academy's building is called the Palace of Beauxbatons, and unlike Hogwarts Castle it does not contain suits of armour. Rather than a Great Hall as at Hogwarts, the Palace contains a Dining Chamber, which is elaborately decorated at Christmastime but in a different style than that used at Hogwarts (GF23). The scholastic system at the Academy is also arranged differently than that at Hogwarts; instead of sitting Ordinary Wizarding Levels or their equivalent at the end of five years, Academy students sit exams after six years (HBP5).

Where is Beauxbatons?

During the feast celebrating the arrival of the students for the Triwizard Tournament, Rowling chose to serve "bouillabaisse". This is a very typical fish soup from the southeast of France and is not really eaten elsewhere, at least not as a common dish. It is likely, then (though an assumption) that Beauxbatons is on the Mediterranean coast of France (maybe by Marseilles) which could explain as well why the students of Beauxbatons are so cold in Hogwarts. -- thanks to Amyll.

Source : http://www.hplex.info/wizworld/places/schools.html#Beauxbatons

Harry Potter World : Places 1

Bagshot house

Godric's Hollow - West Country - England - United Kingdom

Now filled with the "odor of old age, of dust, of unwashed clothes and stale food," the Bagshot house has been home to Bathilda Bagshot for many years. The house is located in Godric's Hollow, in between the town square and the Potter cottage (DH17). It was here that Grindelwald stayed when he came to Godric's Hollow in search of the Cloak of Invisibility, and when he befriended Albus Dumbledore (DH18, DH35).

Harry and Hermione visited this house in search of Gryffindor's sword, and were tricked into thinking that Bathilda was still alive. The house at this point was in great disrepair, with peeling paint and an awful smell, though as Bathilda had been dead only a couple of months (DH22) it was probably beginning to fall into disrepair while she was still alive.

The yard of the house is gated and has a short walk leading through a small garden (overgrown when Harry and Hermione visit) and up to the front door. Inside a small archway leads to a sitting room with a fireplace and photographs lining the room. Up a set of steep, narrow stairs lies a bedroom where Harry discovered that Nagini had been posing as Bathilda, and where he was attacked by the snake and nearly killed before he and Hermione narrowly escaped (DH17).

'HARRY POTTER' - 'TRANSFORMERS' Akhirnya Masuk Indonesia!

Para fans film HARRY POTTER dan TRANSFORMERS boleh bernafas lega karena dua film yang sudah ditunggu-tunggu ini akhirnya bakal diputar di negeri ini. Sejauh ini memang belum jelas kapan dua film box office ini bakal diputar tapi setidaknya sudah ada harapan.

Setelah sempat khawatir kalau dua film unggulan ini tak akan masuk Indonesia, akhirnya Cinema 21 melepas kabar gembira bahwa dua film ini bakal tayang di negeri tercinta. Sejauh ini memang belum ada jadwal tayang dari dua film ini tapi setidaknya judul TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON dan HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 sudah masuk area Coming Soon di situs resmi Cinema 21.
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 sendiri sudah mulai diedarkan 7 Juli lalu diawali dengan premiere di London sementara TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON sudah dirilis satu bulan sebelumnya atau tepatnya tanggal 23 Juni. Fans HARRY POTTER di Indonesia sempat bernafas lega saat ada kabar kalau film ini bakal masuk ke Indonesia tanggal 10 Juli lalu meski akhirnya jadwal di IMDB mundur menjadi tanggal 13 Juli.
Sehari setelah tanggal tersebut jadwal tayang HARRY POTTER di Indonesia lenyap dari situs IMDB namun sekitar pukul 12:30 dini hari Cinema 21 melepas Tweet yang berbunyi, "Welcome HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 and TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON, now coming soon on 21cineplex." Semoga saja kali ini tidak ada perubahan lagi.
RELASHIO WIZARDLY WORLD OF HARRY POTTER! (kpl/21c/roc)

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Prediksi Tak Meleset, 'HARRY POTTER' Pecahkan Rekor

Sebelumnya memang sempat muncul prediksi kalau penjualan tiket HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS bagian kedua bakal gila-gilaan. Rasanya prediksi ini memang tak berlebihan. Ramalan itu benar-benar jadi kenyataan. Menurut Warner Bros. film ini telah berhasil mencatatkan sejarah baru sebagai film dengan penjualan tiket terbanyak dalam sejarah.
Data menyebutkan kalau HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS - PART 2 sudah berhasil mengumpulkan uang sebanyak US$32 juta yang didapat dari penjualan tiket online. Ini bukan angka kecil karena belum ada film yang bisa mengumpulkan uang sebanyak ini dalam waktu singkat.
Bukan hanya itu, menurut Contact Music, prediksi lain menyebutkan kalau film terakhir hasil adaptasi dari buku karya JK Rowling ini juga akan menumbangkan rekor yang dipegang THE DARK KNIGHT tahun 2008 lalu dalam pengumpulan uang terbanyak di akhir pekan pertama rilisnya.
Kans film yang dibintangi Daniel Radcliffe ini memang lebih besar karena durasi film yang relatif pendek memungkinkan gedung bioskop menambah jam tayang. (kpl/cmc/roc)

Harry's Movie Trivia Part 1 : Philosopher's Stone a.k.a. Sorcerer's Stone

Overview :

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is the first film in the Harry Potter series based on the novels by J.K. Rowling. It is the tale of Harry Potter, an ordinary 11-year-old boy serving as a sort of slave for his aunt and uncle who learns that he is actually a wizard and has been invited to attend the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is snatched away from his mundane existence by Hagrid, the grounds keeper for Hogwarts, and quickly thrown into a world completely foreign to both him and the viewer. Famous for an incident that happened at his birth, Harry makes friends easily at his new school. He soon finds, however, that the wizarding world is far more dangerous for him than he would have imagined, and he quickly learns that not all wizards are ones to be trusted.

Trivias :

Robbie Coltrane was the very first person to be cast.

Richard Harris only agreed to taking the part of Albus Dumbledore after his eleven year old granddaughter threatened never to speak to him again. Patrick McGoohan was originally offered the role but had turned it down due to health reasons.

Author J.K. Rowling insisted that the principal cast be British and she got her wish, with two exceptions - Richard Harris was, of course, Irish, and Zoë Wanamaker, though she has made her name as a "British" actress, was actually born in the United States, which is also the case of Emma Watson who was born in France. Other non-Brits in the cast include Verne Troyer, born in Michigan, USA, who plays Griphook (the second Goblin in Gringots' Bank) and Chris Columbus daughter, Eleanor Columbus, who played Susan Bones.

The trouble-making poltergeist Peeves (played by Rik Mayall) does not, in the end, appear in the movie.

There was a huge media outcry in Gloucester, England when it was decided to use the local Cathedral for some of the Hogwarts scenes. Protesters wrote letters by the sack-load to local newspapers, claiming it was blasphemy and promising to block the film-crew's access. In the end, only one protester turned up.

The movie is known as "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" everywhere except the USA and so every scene in which the Philosopher's Stone was mentioned was filmed twice, once with the actors saying "Philosopher's" and once with the actors saying "Sorcerer's".

Platform 9 3/4 was filmed at King's Cross, but on platforms 4 and 5. J.K. Rowling has admitted that she mixed up the layout of London's King's Cross railway station when she assigned the Hogwarts Express to platform 9 3/4, reached by using magic between platforms 9 and 10. She meant the location to be in the inter-city part of the station, but 9 and 10 are actually among the rather less grand suburban platforms. The movie conformed to the book: the platforms seen as 9 and 10 are in real life inter-city platforms 4 and 5. However, there is, in fact a "Platform 9 3/4" at King's Cross. It's located in the walkway area between the real platforms 9 and 10, as a treat for fans of Harry Potter.

At one point, when Harry, Ron, and Hermione are approaching Hagrid, he can be seen playing a wind instrument. He is playing Hedwig's Theme.

Among the portraits on the shifting staircase, you can clearly see a painting of Anne Boleyn (King Henry VIII's second wife, mother of Queen Elizabeth I), who was condemned to death as a witch.

This movie has the distinction of opening on more screens in the USA than any other (3762).

By February 2002 this was the second highest grossing film worldwide after Titanic.

Harry Potter's birthday is stated in the books to be 31 July 1980, as author J.K. Rowling was born on 31 July 1965. By coincidence, actor Richard Griffiths (Uncle Vernon) was born on 31 July 1947. Actor Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) was once reported to been born on 31 July 1989, but this was merely a publicity stunt. In fact, Radcliffe was born on 23 July 1989.

Daniel Radcliffe learned he'd won the role of Harry Potter while in the bathtub.

Warner Bros. originally considered making the entire "Harry Potter" series as a set of CGI animated films, or attempting to combine several of the novels into a single movie. The studio's reasoning mainly had to do with concern over the rapid aging of child actors-if production ran too long on any of the films, or if production was delayed between sequels, the leading actors might have to be recast. Author J.K. Rowling vetoed both the ideas of combining books and an animated film, so the studio decided instead to produce all seven (later eight) films back to back so the same child actors could play their roles in every film.

On the Quidditch trophy that has Harry's father's name on it, there are additional inscriptions for M. McGonagall and R.J.H. King. The latter being a reference to John King, the supervising art director on the film.

The inscription around the Mirror of Erised says: "Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi". Reading the inscription backwards it says, "I show not your face but your heart's desire."

The word 'bloody' appears in the film six times, along with one 'arse', one 'bugger', and two 'blasted's. This, and some very scary scenes in the haunted forest, led to its PG certificate.

The film reveals that the 12th use for dragon's blood is an oven cleaner.

Nicolas Flamel, mentioned as the creator of the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone, has figured as a plot device in novels featuring characters such as Batman, Indiana Jones, and Robert Langdon of The Da Vinci Code. He was (possibly) a real alchemist (born in France around 1330) who was believed by some people to have produced the Philosopher's Stone. Since there were mysterious circumstances surrounding his death in 1418, it has been rumored that he lived for hundreds of years. The book/movie gets his age right.

The Hogwarts motto, "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus" means "never tickle a sleeping dragon".

Three owls play Hedwig: Gizmo, Ook and Sprout, but mainly Gizmo.

Warwick Davis, who played Professor Flitwick and the first Gringotts Goblin, also provided the voice for Griphook who was physically played by Verne Troyer.

In the original draft, Drew Barrymore, a self-proclaimed Harry Potter fan, had a cameo.

Rosie O'Donnell and Robin Williams were two of the celebrities who had asked for a role in the movie without pay. However they did not film any scenes for the movie.

Tim Roth was a leading contender for the role of Professor Severus Snape. Roth dropped out of contention, however, to pursue his role as General Thade in Tim Burton's adaptation of Planet of the Apes.

In the script, the flashbacks to Voldemort killing Harry's parents were written by J.K. Rowling herself. The producers knew she was the only one who knew exactly what happened.

The "Hogwart's Express" locomotive portrayed in this film, a 1937 4-6-0 "Hall" class steam engine number 5972, originally belonged to the Great Western Railway and went under the name of "Olton Hall".

Alan Rickman was hand-picked to play Snape by J.K. Rowling, and received special instruction from her as to his character. Rowling even provided the actor with vital details of Snape's back story not revealed until the final novel.

In the troll scene in the girl's bathroom, Daniel Radcliffe isn't actually on the troll's neck, because the motions would have snapped his neck; therefore, his image was digitally added.

In the trophy cupboard, to the right of the Quidditch trophy, you can see the "Service to the School" trophy with part of "Tom M Riddle" engraved on it.

The Wizard's chess-set Harry and Ron were playing, the red queen is from the Lewis Chessmen, the most important of all chess pieces dating from the 12th Century. They were found in 1831 on a beach in Uig, Lewis. 78 pieces were recovered in all, and are now in the care of the National Museum of Scotland and in the British Museum in London.

For the Gringotts interior scenes, the Australian High Commission in London was used. The exteriors are the Silver Vaults located not far from the Australian High Commission.

All the cars in Privet Drive are Vauxhalls, no matter the time period. The Dursleys own a silver 2000 Vauxhall Vectra estate. All other cars parked in the drives are Vectra estates in the present day, with Astra Belmont and Cavalier saloons from the late 1980s in the pre-titles prologue.

The street that Harry and Hagrid walk down to get to the Leaky Cauldron is the same street Sean Connery is parked in waiting for Catherine Zeta-Jones to leave the antiques shop in Entrapment.

David Thewlis, who later played Professor Lupin in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, was considered for the role of Professor Quirrell.

In the film, the scar on Harry's forehead is off-center. This was done at J.K. Rowling's request. Due to the artwork on the covers of her books, many people have assumed that his scar is supposed to be in the center of his forehead. The books, however, never specify exactly where on his forehead the scar is located.

The exterior used for King's Cross Station is actually St Pancras Station which is just down the road. This was used because the facade of St Pancras is more visually appealing than that of King's Cross.

John Williams composed a piece of music specifically for the movie's trailer, and it is found on the soundtrack as "The Prologue". As of March 2002, he has done this only once before, for Steven Spielberg's Hook. (However, on the collector's edition of the soundtrack for Jaws, a previously unreleased track appears called "Shark Attack" - this was only used in the trailer for that movie - in 1975.)

Robbie Coltrane's 6'10" body double for Hagrid is former England rugby international, Martin Bayfield.

Screenwriter Michael Goldenberg wrote a draft of the script but was ultimately rejected by David Heyman in favor of Steve Kloves' draft. Heyman however was impressed with his draft and was subsequently brought in to write the script for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix when Kloves backed out to commit on a personal project.

Steven Spielberg reportedly wanted Haley Joel Osment for the part of Harry.

The last name Dumbledore means "Bumblebee" in Old English.

West Anglia Great Northern Trains, the company that owns "Platform 9-3/4", affixed one-quarter of a luggage trolley forwardly "disappearing" into the wall so as to allow fans (and their parents) to take pictures of themselves seeming to disappear into the wall.

Director Chris Columbus wanted to work with DP John Seale and asked the studio to hire him to shoot the picture, but at that time Seale was committed to shooting Timeline. However, production delays for the latter film enabled Seale to be available for the movie's photography period.

The platform attendant at Kings Cross who asks Harry, "You think you're funny, do you?" actually works for GNER. He is, however, a train manager and not a platform attendant.

Liam Aiken was originally given the role of Harry, but a day later the offer was revoked when it was discovered that he wasn't British (Aiken had previously worked with director Chris Columbus).

In addition to Steven Spielberg, other candidates for the director's job were Jonathan Demme, Brad Silberling and Terry Gilliam. Gilliam was J.K. Rowling's initial favorite but the studio finally picked Chris Columbus to direct because he had experience directing child actors. Columbus was also asked many times by his daughter to direct and he agreed after he read her copy of the book.

Ron's choice of opening in the final chess match is called Center Counter Opening (or Scandinavian Defense), which, due to its asymmetrical nature, is said to be a highly unpredictable and difficult opening for either side, that rarely results in a draw.

The filmmakers attempted to go the extra mile of matching the kid's appearances to how the novel describes them, by fitting Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) with green-colored contact lenses, and similarly make Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) wear fake buck teeth. But when Dan's eyes reacted strongly to the contacts, and Emma couldn't talk clearly with the fake teeth in her mouth, these ideas were dropped.

In the flying lesson the whistle 'Madame Hooch' is wearing is called a 'Boatswain's Call' and was originally used in the early Navy (before PA systems) to signal an order, because the whistle could be heard from one end of the ship to the other. It is now used in the Navy as a ceremonial whistle.

In order to give Hogwarts Castle an authentic look and feel, much of the filming was done at locations around England, including Christ Church, Oxford, Durham Cathedral, Gloucester Cathedral, and Alnwick Castle. In fact, the only sets that were built for Hogwarts were the Great Hall, the Grand Staircase, and the Gryffindor Common Room. In the later films, additional sets would be built for the various classrooms and other locations around Hogwarts.

The design for the Great Hall set was based on the hall at Christ Church, Oxford. Oxford University itself also served as a filming location.

The only Harry Potter movie not to feature a variation of the Warner Bros. logo, although the film's theme is played over it as opposed to the original WB theme.

Tom Felton did not read any of the Harry Potter books before auditioning, and at the audition the director was asking each contender for the role of Malfoy what there favorite part in the book was. When it was his turn, Felton said his favorite part in the book was the part at Gringrotts, which is what the previous contender had just said. The director saw through this very quickly and thought it was very funny.

Hatty Jones auditioned for Hermione Granger before it went to Emma Watson. She and Emma were the very last girls for the audition.

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Alan Rickman is the Winner of The 'Potter' World Cup

Azkaban Fortress

"They don't need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they're trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks."
    --  Remus Lupin, PA10

Introduction

Far out in the icy waters of the North Sea lies a tiny island that is home to one of the most terrible places on earth: Azkaban, the wizarding prison (PA3, Sch1). Azkaban is a terrible place. Prisoners were for years guarded by Dementors, horrible creatures who have been described as "sightless soul-sucking fiends." They feed on positive emotions, which means that after spending much time in the prison, the prisoners lose all hope and all good feelings and thoughts. They are forced to relive the darkest, most horrible memories of their lives. Some go mad, others simply despair and die (GF27). During Voldemort's return to power, however, the dementors allowed the escape of a number of Death Eaters (OP25) and then eventually deserted Azkaban altogether to ally themselves with Voldemort (HBP1). After Voldemort's defeat, new Minister for MagicKingsley Shacklebolt saw to it that Dementors would no longer be involved in guarding Azkaban, which despite making the atmosphere more plesant on the island, likely prevents a number of problems as well (BLC).

Location

"Sirius did not have to pass through Little Whinging to get from Azkaban to Hogwarts; he just wanted to."      -- J.K.Rowling (Sch1) Because of a comment by Sirius Black describing his escape from Azkaban, some have conjectured that the island must really located farther south than the North Sea location Rowling has described. Sirius does state quite clearly that he swam to shore, then visited Privet Drive before heading north to Hogwarts (PA22). Privet Drive is in Surrey, which is south of London. Since it is only logical to assume that Sirius would have swum to the nearest point on the mainland to Azkaban, that point must have been somewhere in the English Channel between England and France. Several fans have tried to come up with alternative locations which fit the bill. Rowling, however, is very clear on the subject. Azkaban is far to the north, and Sirius chose to travel to Hogwarts with a detour through Surrey. That seems odd to us Muggles, but wizard ideas of "shortest route" don't necessarily use the kind of geometry we Muggles take for granted. The Knight Bus, for example, seems to move between destinations almost in alphabetical order. This odd logic is similar to that which makes Transfiguration simpler when the two items have similar names (guinea pigs and guinea fowl). Therefore we can't necessarily take Sirius' offhand analysis of his trip and superimpose it over a Muggle map to figure out where Azkaban is (Sch1)

Break-Outs

We know of at least four break-outs from Azkaban. We have been led to believe that these are the only times this has ever taken place, as Ron states clearly after Sirius Black's break-out that "no one's ever done it before" (PA5). While this isn't quite true, it does seem likely that the break-outs we've heard of are all that exist.
• Barty Crouch Jr. - c. Winter 1982
  "About a year" after he was brought in, Crouch's parents hatched a plan in which he would trade places with his dying mother. Barty Crouch Sr., at the time the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, led Mrs. Crouch into Azkaban to visit. While there, she and Barty Jr. each drank Polyjuice Potion to take on each other's appearance, and Crouch Jr. departed with his father while his mother was left in his place to die (GF27, GF33).
• Sirius Black - July 1993
  Cornelius Fudge came to visit Azkaban this summer, and gave a copy of his Daily Prophet to Sirius. On the front page, though, was a picture of the Weasley family that included Ron's pet rat, Scabbers. What Sirius alone knew was that Scabbers was actually an unregistered Animagus - Peter Pettigrew - who was also a Death Eater. An unregistered Animagus himself, Sirius transformed into a dog when the Dementors brought him food; in this state he was able to slip past them undetected and swim to shore (PA19).
• Antonin Dolohov, Augustus Rookwood, Bellatrix Lestrange, Rodolphus Lestrange, Rabastan Lestrange, Mulciber, and four other Death Eaters - January 1996
  With the Ministry of Magic losing control of the Dementors, ten "high-security prisoners" were allowed to escape and re-join Voldemort (OP25; we know Mulciber, Rodolphus, and Rabastan are included as they were imprisoned in GF30, but fought in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries in OP35).
• Stan Shunpike, Lucius Malfoy, Travers, Yaxley, and other Death Eaters - Summer 1997
  Kingsley Shacklebolt is certain that there was "a mass breakout which the Ministry... hushed up," which explains why Voldemort has all of his Death Eaters despite many having been sent to Azkaban the previous spring (DH5).

Known Prisoners of Azkaban, Past & Present

• Black, Sirius
  Captured and sent to Azkaban without trial (GF27) for betraying James and Lily Potter to Voldemort and then blowing up Peter Pettigrew and a street full of Muggles, c. November 1981 (PA10). Escaped July 1993 (PA3).
• Crabbe
  Captured at the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, June 1996 (OP35, OP36). Presumably escaped in the mass breakout that summer (DH5).
• Cronk, Crispin
  Sent to Azkaban by the Ministry for keeping sphinxes in his back garden, despite repeated warnings (fw).
• Crouch Jr, Bartemius "Barty"
  Convicted of participating in the torture of the Longbottoms in 1981 and sentenced to a life term in Azkaban - the penalty for the use of the Cruciatus Curse as one of the three Unforgivable Curses (GF30). Escaped disguised as his mother, who died in his place a year later (GF35).
• Dolohov, Antonin
  Sentenced c. 1981 for torturing "countless Muggles and non-supporters of the Dark Lord" (GF30). Escaped during the mass breakout of January 1996 (OP25). He was sent back to Azkaban after his recapture June 1996 in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries (OP35, OP36), and escaped a second time that summer (DH5).
• Dumbledore, Percival
  Sent to Azkaban after savagely attacking three Muggle children (DH2), in retaliation for their attack on his daughter, Ariana (DH28).
• Fletcher, Mundungus
  Sent to Azkaban in March 1997 for impersonating an Inferius during an attempted burglary (HBP21).
• Gaunt, Marvolo
  Sent to Azkaban c. 1944 for attacking Ministry officials attempting to arrest his son. He was sentenced to six months (HBP10).
• Gaunt, Morfin
  Sent to Azkaban for three years c. 1944 for the hexing of Tom Riddle and resisting arrest. After he returned from Azkaban, he was implicated in the deaths of the three inhabitants of the Riddle House. He readily confessed to the killings, but was actually innocent. His nephew, the son of Tom Riddle and Morfin's sister Merope, actually committed the murders and planted false memories in Morfin's mind. He died in Azkaban, firmly believing in his own guilt (HBP17).
• Hagrid, Rubeus
  Held for some weeks without trial for the basilisk attacks on Hogwarts students in the spring of 1993 (CS14), then released when his innocence was proven (CS18).
• Jugson
  Captured after the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, June 1996 (OP35, OP36). Presumably escaped in the mass breakout that summer (DH5).
• Karkaroff, Igor
  Captured by Alastor Moody after six months' pursuit, but released c. 1981 when he cooperated with the Ministry and gave them the names of other Death Eaters (GF30).
• Lestrange, Bellatrix Black
  Sentenced to life imprisonment in Azkaban for use of the Cruciatus Curse on the Longbottoms (GF30) c. 1981; escaped during the mass breakout of January 1996 (OP25).
• Lestrange, Rabastan
  Sentenced to life imprisonment in Azkaban for use of the Cruciatus Curse on the Longbottoms c. 1981 (GF30); escaped during the mass breakout of January 1996 (see note under 'Break-Outs'). Sent back to Azkaban after his recapture June 1996 in the Department of Mysteries (OP35, OP36) and presumably escaped a second time that summer (DH5).
• Lestrange, Rodolphus
  Sentenced to life imprisonment in Azkaban for use of the Cruciatus Curse on the Longbottoms c. 1981 (GF30); escaped during the mass breakout of January 1996 (see note under 'Break-Outs'). Sent back to Azkaban after his recapture June 1996 in the Department of Mysteries (OP35, OP36) and presumably escaped a second time that summer (DH5).
• Lovegood, Xenophilius
  Arrested in essence for being a nuisance, printing editions of the Quibbler that supported Harry Potter in defiance of the Voldemort-controlled Ministry, summoning authorities for made-up reasons after they arrested Luna, and then nearly blowing them up when he summoned authorities again to try to have Harry captured (DH21, DH22).
• Macnair, Walden
  Captured after the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, June 1996 (OP35, OP36). Escaped that summer in a mass break-out from Azkaban (DH5).
• Malfoy, Lucius
  Captured after the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, June 1996 (OP35, OP36). Escaped that summer in a mass break-out from Azkaban (DH5).
• McTavish, Tarquin
  Imprisoned for trapping his Muggle neighbor inside a kettle (JKR).
• Mulciber
  Captured by the Ministry c. 1981 or earlier (GF30); escaped during the mass breakout of January 1996 (see note under 'Break-Outs'). Sent back to Azkaban after his recapture June 1996 in the Department of Mysteries (OP35, OP36) and presumably escaped a second time that summer (DH5).
• Nott
  Captured after the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, June 1996 (OP35, OP36). Escaped that summer in a mass break-out from Azkaban (DH5).
• Podmore, Sturgis
  Sentenced to six months in Azkaban in late 1995 after being caught in an attempt to break into a restricted area at the Ministry of Magic (OP14).
• Rookwood, Augustus
  Turned in to the Ministry of Magic by Igor Karkaroff c. 1981, having been a spy for Voldemort in the Department of Mysteries (GF30). Escaped during the mass breakout of January 1996 (OP25). Sent back to Azkaban after his recapture in June 1996 in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries (OP35, OP36) and escaped a second time that summer (DH5).
• Shunpike, Stan
  Arrested after making jokes about Death Eaters and sent to Azkaban, autumn 1996 (HBP11). Stan was kept there by the Ministry mostly to show that they were doing something about the Death Eater threat, even though he was innocent (HBP16). He escaped the next summer and, most likely under the Imperius Curse, joined the Death Eaters in attempting to capture Harry (DH5).
• Travers
  Captured by the Ministry c. 1981 or earlier (GF30). It is unknown whether he escaped as part of the mass break-out of 1996; if so, he was re-apprehended. Either way he certainly escaped Azkaban in the summer of 1997, because according to Kingsley Shacklebolt he was "supposed to be inside" (DH5).
• Dolores Umbridge
  Following the defeat of Voldemort, Umbridge was "arrested, interrogated, and imprisoned for crimes against Muggleborns" (BLC).
• Yaxley
  Arrested for breaking into Hogwarts in 1997; he almost certainly escaped in the mass breakout that summer.
  
  Through a little deductive logic we can determine that Yaxley was the unnamed Death Eater who Harry Stunned atop the Astronomy Tower immediately following Dumbledore's death. When Harry ran into Yaxley at the Ministry, he recognized him as a Death Eater who had been present that night(DH12); meanwhile, the only people on the tower when Dumbledore died were Dumbledore, Harry, Snape, Draco Malfoy, Fenrir Greyback, the Carrows, and the "brutal-faced" Death Eater (HBP27) who Harry Stunned (HBP28). Therefore, this Death Eater must have been Yaxley - and Rufus Scrimgeour later told Harry that the Ministry had discovered that Death Eater, and presumably arrested him (HBP30). 

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What J.K. Rowling Says About ....... Harry Potter

• Harry had to be an orphan so that he would have no fear of letting his parents down [Read the exact quote from the Guardian Unlimited, 1999]
• In book 7, Harry will be 17, which means he will be "of age." He will become a full wizard and be able to use his magic outside school. [Read the exact quote from Barnes & Noble chat #1, 1999]
• Harry will, in the long term, get back at Dudley. [Read the exact quote from Book Links, 1999]
• Character of Harry came into her head "fully formed" and she worked backwards to create the stories. [Read the exact quote from WBUR interview, 1999]
• "Harry is someone is forced for such a young person to make his own choices. [nice description of how Harry, Hermione and Ron all complement each other]. [Read the exact quote from WBUR interview, 1999]
• Harry is more alone than most children; he doesn’t have a safety net. [Read the exact quote from WBUR interview, 1999]
• The fact that Harry has his mother’s eyes is very important to a future book. [Read the exact quote from WBUR interview, 1999]
• Harry & Hermione are platonic friends, "but I won't answer for anyone else, nudge, nudge, wink, wink." [Read the exact quote from National Press Club, 1999]
• She can’t tell us if she imagines Harry growing up because it will ruin the plot of book 7 for us [Read the exact quote from National Press Club, 1999]
• Harry will not train to be an animagus; his "energies are going to be concentrated elsewhere and he's not going to have time to do that." [Read the exact quote from National Press Club, 1999]
• She won’t tell us what happened to Harry’s grandparents. [Read the exact quote from National Press Club, 1999]
• Harry will never become an animagus. [Read the exact quote from Newsweek, 1999]
• JKR: "Harry has been born to shoulder a certain burden." [Read the exact quote from the Diane Rehm Show interview, 1999]
• When JKR reads aloud from PS/SS the scene in Ollivander's Shop, she slightly emphases the part where Ollivander comments that Harry's holly and phoenix feather wand is an "unusual combination." [Read the exact quote from the Diane Rehm Show interview, 1999]
• JKR: "In my world wizards come of age at 17 - age 17. So in book 7 you'll see Harry come of age, which means he's allowed to use magic outside school, and you'll see the end of that school year." [Read the exact quote from the Diane Rehm Show interview, 1999]
• Harry is particularly talented in Defence against the Dark Arts, the one area (well, besides Quidditch) where he is better than Hermione. [Read the exact quote from the South West News Service interview, 2000]
• JKR: Harry was very well protected until the end of book four, which is the end of an era for him. [Read the exact quote from CBC Hot Type, 2000]
• In GoF, Harry, Ron and Hermione have specific issues they need to work through. "For Harry that's facing up to his fame, really facing up to it for the first time because he's been put into this situation where he will, for the first time, really get the weight of outside interest. So that's scary." […] "Ron has to deal with his jealousy - he's made friends with the most famous boy in his year and that's not easy, it's not easy to be in that situation. And Hermione gets a political conscience." [Read the exact quote from the cBBC Newsround interview, 2000]
• Now, can I ask you: are there any special wizarding powers in your world that depend on the wizard using their eyes to do something? Bit like ...
  Why do you want to know this?
  I just vaguely wondered.
  Why?
  Well because everyone always goes on about how Harry's got Lily Potter's eyes.
  Aren’t you smart? There is something, maybe, coming about that. I’m going to say no more, very clever.
  And I'm going to ask one other question which you'll say isn't clever at all. The significance of the place where Harry and his parents lived, the first name -- Godric Gryffindor.
  Very good, you're a bit good you are, aren't you?
  Thank you.
  I'm impressed. My editor didn't notice, I said to her haven't you noticed any connection between where Harry's parents were born, not born, where they lived, and one of the Hogwarts houses and she's sitting there going erm... I'm not being rude about Emma she's a brilliant editor, the best I've ever [had]. But no she didn't pick that up either. You're a bit good you are. [Read the exact quote from the cBBC Newsround interview, 2000]
• The idea of Harry saving Cedric’s body came from the Hector-Patroclus-Achilles triangle in The Illiad [Read the exact quote from Entertainment Weekly, 2000]
• Voldemort being a relative of Harry’s would be a bit "Star Wars." [Read the exact quote from the Scholastic chat #2, 2000]
• Harry’s middle name is 'James,' after his Dad. [Read the exact quote from the Scholastic chat #2, 2000]
• Will Harry Time travel again? JKR: "Not telling!" [Read the exact quote from the AOL chat, 2000]
• Why did Dumbledore have a look of triumph in his eyes at the end of book four?
  JKR: "Good question … excellent, in fact, and like all the best questions I get asked, I can’t answer it! Because it would give too much away. However, well-spotted. Have fun guessing … someone’s bound to get it right!" [Read the exact quote from the AOL chat, 2000]
• Rowling has described Wart from T.H. White's The Sword In The Stone as "Harry's spiritual ancestor." [Read the exact quote from Guardian Unlimited biography of JKR, 2000]
• Did Harry ever use magic on Dudley in the real world? JKR: "Not so far (hint)" [Read the exact quote from the Barnes & Noble chat, 2001]
• On the theme of tolerance in the books: "One way to learn tolerance is to take the time to really understand other people's motives. Yes, you're right. Harry is often given an erroneous first impression of someone and he has to learn to look beneath the surface. When you look beneath the surface he has sometimes found that he is being fooled by people. And on other occasions he has found very nice surprises." [Read the exact quote from CBC This Morning, 2000]
• JKR sees Dudley as just as abused as Harry, though perhaps not in such an obvious way. [Read the exact quote from Fandom.com, 2000]
• Harry's glasses are "the clue to his vulnerability." [Read the exact quote from Reader's Digest, 2000]
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is one of Harry’s school books. [Read the exact quote from the Raincoast Books interview, 2001]
• Harry might get a different pet "at some point." [Read the exact quote from the Raincoast Books interview, 2001]
• Harry has never used the internet because he gets beaten up if he goes to close to Dudley’s keyboard. But wizards don’t need the internet; they have something more fun to find out what goes on in the outside world. [Read the exact quote from the Raincoast Books interview, 2001]
• About the scar: "I wanted him to be physically marked by what he has been through. It was an outward expression of what he has been through inside. I gave him a scar and in a prominent place so other people would recognize him. It is almost like being the chosen one, or the cursed one, in a sense. Someone tried to kill him; that's how he got it. I chose the lightning bolt because it was the most plausible shape for a distinctive scar. As you know, the scar has certain powers, and it gives Harry warnings. I can't say more than that, but there is more to say." [Read the whole quote from the Houston Chronicle, 2001]
• Ron Weasley is "always there when you need him." Implies that -- like Jo's friend Sean -- Ron represents freedom to Harry. [Read the exact quote from "Harry Potter and Me," 2001]
• "I don't want to give too much away, but Dumbledore is a very wise man who firstly knows Harry is going to have to learn a few hard lessons to prepare him for what maybe coming in his life, so he allows Harry to do a lot of things he wouldn't normally allow another pupil to do and he also unwillingly permits Harry to confront a lot of things he'd rather protect him from but as people who have finished Order of the Phoenix will know, Dumbledore has had to step back a little bit from Harry in an effort to teach him some of life's harder lessons." [Read the exact quote from Royal Albert Hall, 2003]
• Harry is not a good enough wizard, yet, to even attempt to take on Voldemort as Wizard to Wizard. [referring to book 5] [Read the exact quote from Royal Albert Hall, 2003]
• Harry and Cho were "never going to be happy...." [Read the exact quote from World Book Day, 2004]
• Harry is really progressing as a wizard, so his powers are becoming greater. [Read the exact quote from World Book Day, 2004]
• JKR doesn't think Harry will become Headmaster of Hogwarts because an academic career just isn't right for him ("He's seen too much action"). [Read the exact quote from World Book Day, 2004]
• The "crucial and central question" of the series is why both Harry and Voldemort survived the killing curse. [Read the exact quote from World Book Day, 2004]
• Harry got the Marauders’ Map back in GoF by "nipping into Moody’s empty office" and pinching it when he wasn’t there. [Read the exact quote from World Book Day, 2004]
• Will the two way mirror Sirius gave Harry ever show up again? JKR: Ooooo, good question. There’s your answer. [Read the exact quote from World Book Day, 2004]
• The shape is not the most significant thing about Harry’s scar. [Read the exact quote from World Book Day, 2004]
• Harry will have some time for romance in book 6. [Read the exact quote from World Book Day, 2004]
• JKR: "In book six, the wizarding world is really at war again and [Harry] has to master his own feelings to make himself useful." [Read the exact quote from World Book Day, 2004]
• In book 6, Harry will have "the shortest stay in Privet Drive so far. " [Read the exact quote from World Book Day, 2004]
• JKR "never said never said that he [Harry] would have a 'more permanent injury'" in a future book.[Read the exact quote from World Book Day, 2004]
• Is Harry related to Godric Gryffindor? JKR: "People are always wondering who Harry might be related to. Maybe he is ;)" [Read the exact quote from World Book Day, 2004]
• Are you going to write books about Harry after school? JKR: "Probably not, but I'll never say never because every time I do I immediately break the vow!" [Read the exact quote from World Book Day, 2004]
• JKR won't tell us if Harry will see Sirius again. [Read the exact quote from World Book Day, 2004]
• Harry's grandparents are dead and "not particularly important to the story..." [Read the exact quote from World Book Day, 2004]
• "The HBP is neither Harry nor Voldemort." [Read the exact quote from Jo's website]
• "If Dumbledore had been Harry's grandfather, why on Earth would he have been sent to live with the Dursleys?" [Read the exact quote from Jo's website]
• "James is DEFINITELY Harry's father," and Voldemort is the last surviving descendent of Salazar Slytherin — which means Harry is not a descendent of Slytherin. [Read the exact quote from Jo's website]
• "Seventeen is much to young to enter politics." (In response to a rumour that Harry will be asked to be Minister of Magic.). [Read the exact quote from Jo's website]
• To people like Lucius Malfoy, a Muggle-born is as bad as a Muggle, so Harry is considered Half-Blood because of his mother's parents. In effect, a Muggle Grandparent "pollutes" the blood. (Read the rest of JK's response here to see how this relates to the Nazi's attitude to Jews.) [Read the exact quote from Jo's website]
• There is no trace of the HBP storyline left in CoS, rather the link between the two books relates to a discovery Harry made in CoS that foreshadows something he finds out in HBP. [Read the exact quote from Jo's website]
• The mirror that Harry got from Sirius might not have helped as much as you think but, on the other hand, will help more than you think. [Read the exact quote from Jo's website]
• Does the prophecy mean that both Harry and Voldemort need to die? JKR: "Both Madam Trelawney and I worded the prophecy extremely carefully"[Read the exact quote from Jo's website]
• Why couldn't Harry see Thestrels before book 5? JKR: It is only after he sees Cedric die that Harry "really feels what death means." [Read the exact quote from Jo's website]
• How did Harry get the Marauder's Map back after the end of GoF? JKR: "He simply took it back from the fake Moody’s office"[Read the exact quote from Jo's website]
• Does Hermione love Ron or Harry? JKR: "I can't believe that some of you haven't worked this one out yet"[Read the exact quote from Jo's website]
• Harry does not have a Godmother. Harry's christening was very hurried and quiet, just the family and James' best friend Sirius. [Read the exact quote from the Edinburgh Book Festival, 2004]
• Harry will survive "to book seven," but JKR still won’t say whether he grows any older than that. [Read the exact quote from the Edinburgh Book Festival, 2004]
• What Harry (and all the characters) will be going through will be quite "tough." [Read the exact quote from the Edinburgh Book Festival, 2004]
• We should be asking "Why didn't Voldemort die?" Not, "Why did Harry live?" but, "Why didn't Voldemort die?" The killing curse rebounded, so he should have died. Why didn't he? At the end of Goblet of Fire he says that one or more of the steps that he took enabled him to survive. You should be wondering what he did to make sure that he did not die — I will put it that way. I don't think that it is guessable. It may be — someone could guess it — but you should be asking yourself that question, particularly now that you know about the prophesy. [Read the exact quote from the Edinburgh Book Festival, 2004]
• The second question we should be asking is "why Dumbledore did not kill or try to kill Voldemort in the scene in the ministry." Dumbledore did not give the real reason. [Read the exact quote from the Edinburgh Book Festival, 2004]
• Harry did not see his parents die because he was in his cot [crib]. [Read the exact quote from the Edinburgh Book Festival, 2004]
• Harry is more vulnerable to dementors because "he's faced more." [Read the exact quote from the Prisoner of Azkaban DVD, 2004]
• Sirius' redeeming quality is the affection that he is capable of feeling. He loved James like a brother, and has attached that affection to Harry. [Read the exact quote from Jo's website]
• In the GoF scene where Ron finds out about Leprechaun gold disappearing, JK says that it would not have been as poignant if Harry had noticed it disappear at the World Cup. Ron is poor, so cannot imagine what it must feel like not to notice a pocketful of gold disappearing. She wanted to show, through Ron, how hard it is not to have any money when other people do.[Read the exact quote from Jo's website]
• Harry was not based on any real person; he is an entirely ficticious character. [Read the exact quote from Jo's website]
• In Book 6, Harry will not stand trial again; he will leave the Dursley’s for a much pleasanter reason. [Read the exact quote from Jo's website]
• Dumbledore is not Ron or Harry "from the future;" no book character has returned from the future. [Read the exact quote from Jo's website]
• The last part of the prophecy does not mean that Neville and Harry must kill each other. [Read the exact quote form Jo's website]
• In choosing which child to kill (Neville or Harry) Voldemort was "choosing which boy to anoint as the Chosen One." [Read the exact quote form Jo's website]
• Harry's scar gives him a "magical window into Voldemort's mind." [Read the exact quote form Jo's website]
• Harry's parents were "able" and "prepared to die for their son." [Read the exact quote form Jo's website]
• Harry's survival through his ordeals "has not depended wholly or even mainly upon his scar." [Read the exact quote form Jo's website]
• The prophecy did not mystically intertwine Neville's fate with Harry's. [Read the exact quote form Jo's website]
• Arthur Levine says: Harry is "definitely growing up in all areas of his life." [Read the source for Arthur Levine quote from report on BookExpo America, 2005]
• "Harry-Snape is now as personal, if not more so, than Harry-Voldemort." [Read the whole quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
• "I see Sirius as someone who was a case of arrested development. I think you see that from his relationship with Harry in 'Phoenix.' He kind of wants a mate from Harry, and what Harry craves is a father."
• Harry is too emotionally honest to be a good Occlumens. [Read the whole quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
• Harry’s Evans grandparents died natural deaths. There is “nothing sinister” about their deaths. [Read the entire quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
• James was born to parents who were elderly, even by wizarding standards, and died from a wizarding illness. There is “nothing sinister” about their deaths. [Read the entire quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
• JK implies that Harry is not the Heir of Gryffindor. [Read the entire quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
• Dumbledore’s line “the prophecy is significant only because you and Voldemort choose to make it so” is a key point in the novel. [Read the entire quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
• Harry does not have a godmother. [Read the entire quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
• Harry and Ron will never read Hogwarts, a History. [Read the entire quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
• Harry is a good role model, but not saintly. He is struggling to do the right thing. [Read the whole quote from ITV, 2005]
• Sirius' death was not arbitrary. Plot-wise, Harry needs to "go on alone and to give him too much support makes his job too easy." [Read the whole quote from ITV, 2005]
• The magical protection Harry receives from staying at the Dursleys will not hold once he turns 17 and becomes a man. [Read the whole quote from ITV, 2005]
• JK "always planned for [Harry] to want to be an auror." [Read the whole quote from ITV, 2005]
• JK loves writing dialogue, especially between Harry, Ron and Hermione. [Read the whole quote from ITV, 2005]
• Harry has glasses because JK "wanted to read about a hero wearing glasses." [Read the whole quote from ITV, 2005]
• When asked if Harry's eyes are important, Jo agrees that they are mentioned again and again, but won't say any more. [Read the whole quote from ITV, 2005]
• She gave Harry a fortune as she was poor at the time and wanted him to have a lot. It was wishful thinking. [Read the whole quote from ITV, 2005]
• Harry's money came from his "inheritance from his father." [Read the whole quote from ITV, 2005]
• Harry "has had less sexual experience than boys of his age might have had" because his life has been so eventful. [Read the whole quote from Time Magazine, 2005]
• Magic does not make Harry's world significantly better. The relationships he has in the magical world make his world better. "Magic in many ways complicates his life." [Read the whole quote from Time Magazine, 2005]
• "In Book 6 "Harry finds out a lot of Voldemort's history. Though he was never that nice a guy." [Read the whole quote from Time Magazine, 2005]
• After Book 6 "you're left with a very clear idea of what Harry's going to do next." [Read the whole quote from Time Magazine, 2005]
• In Book 6 Harry is "ready to go out fighting. And he’s after revenge." [Read the whole quote from Dateline NBC, 2005]
• Harry is not a Metamorphagus; he is just a boy who was "clearly magical from birth." Incidents like him growing his hair back were due to his untrained, uncontrolled magical powers bursting out when he was angry or frightened. [Read the exact quote from Jo's website]
• Voldemort "is not, in a biological sense, related to [Harry] at all." [Read the whole quote from BBC-Radio4, 2005]
• Harry had to have the near "breakdown" in book 5 to underline his humanness; however "he will rise from the ashes strengthened." [Read the whole quote from BBC-Radio4, 2005]
• Jo "drew a lot" on her sister's "grumpy" adolescence when she was writing scenes for Harry. [Read the whole quote from R&J, 2006]
• JKR: "I've never been tempted to kill [Harry] off before the end of book 7. [...] But I can completely understand the mentality of an author who thinks "well I am going to kill them off because that means there can be no non-author written sequels as they call them, so it will end with me and after I am dead and gone." [Read the whole quote from R&J, 2006]
• Jo can understand why an author would want to kill off their character 'from a point of view of not allowing others to continue writing after the original author is dead '. [Read the whole quote from Radio City-pressconf, 2006]
• Hermione would see the trio “alive and unscathed and Voldemort finished” in the Mirror of Erised. She may also see herself in a romantic embrace. [Read the whole quote from Radio City1, 2006]
• When asked about Aunt Petunia being oddly flushed when she heard that Harry would only be returning to Privet Drive once more, and whether this meant Aunt Petunia harbours some hidden fondness for Harry and the connection he provides to the wizarding world, Jo said that as with all the best and penetrating questions it is difficult to answer. She would say that “There is a little more to Aunt Petunia than meets the eye and you will find out what that is in book seven” [Read the whole quote from Radio City2, 2006]
• JKR: "Why did Dumbledore have James' invisibility cloak at the time of James' death, given that Dumbledore could make himself invisible without a cloak?" is an important question that no one has asked her ("NAQ"). [Read the exact quote from Jo's website]

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