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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

FILM · 2011 · UK

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Directed by
David Yates
Runtime
130 min
Studio
Warner Bros. Pictures, Heyday Films

91 archived facts 6 topics 2 sources Last reviewed Nov 2026

Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.

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91 Interesting Facts About Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Interesting Facts (3)

  1. #001
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    Alan Rickman admitted to feeling awkward during the scene in which Professors Snape and McGonagall duel: "Thank God for computer graphics, because holding a wand is not throwing the most threatening thing you can do, and you're pointing it at Dame Maggie Smith, who you grew up worshipping from the cheap seats at the National Theater, and she's pointing a wand at you. She can arch an eyebrow like nobody. So thank God for the sheets of flame."

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  2. #002
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    When Harry, Ron, and Hermione enter Gringotts near the beginning, Hermione has taken Polyjuice Potion to disguise herself as Bellatrix. Before the scene was shot, Emma Watson acted out the scene for Helena Bonham Carter so she would know how to act as if she were Hermione in this situation. So, essentially, this scene is Carter acting like Watson who is acting like Hermione acting like Bellatrix.

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  3. #003
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    (At around one hour and five minutes) Biggerstaff's character, former Gryffindor Quidditch Captain and Keeper, Oliver Wood, leads an aerial assault on the Death Eaters via broomstick during the Battle of Hogwarts. He can clearly be heard saying, "Come on!" to six people, also on broomsticks.

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Production Story (23)

  1. #004

    This is the only entry in the franchise not to feature an arrangement of John Williams' "Hedwig's Theme" playing over either the Warner Bros. logo, or the title at the beginning of the movie. The theme is, however, used several times throughout the rest of the movie, including an extended performance at the beginning of the end credits.

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    According to producer David Heyman, the movie's assembled workprint was five and a half hours long, and the shooting script was close to five hundred pages. This explains why the movie was split into two.

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    No consideration was given to this movie's 3-D presentation during filming, as the filmmakers did not even find out the movie would be converted until shooting was almost completed. In post-production, director David Yates consciously chose to make the 3-D conversion "conservative" in terms of depth because he was worried about the conversion becoming distracting and taking the audience out of the story.

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  4. #007

    It was reported that, due to her commitment to Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010), Dame Emma Thompson would be unable to appear in the Deathly Hallows movies. However, she was able to return shortly before filming wrapped to reprise her role as Professor Trelawney. She rejoined her Nanny McPhee castmates Dame Maggie Smith, Rhys Ifans, and Kelly Macdonald. Her sister Sophie Thompson appeared in Part 1 as Mafalda Hopkirk. Because of their history, Emma Thompson only came on set on days when Helena Bonham Carter was not filming.

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  5. #008
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    The filmmakers took many creative liberties with Severus Snape's memories in the Pensieve. In addition to adding scenes that were not in the book, such as the scene where Snape goes to Godric's Hollow and cries over Lily Potter's dead body, the sequence also includes instances from events which Snape never actually witnessed first hand.

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  6. #009
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    (at around 37 mins) The fight between Professor McGonagall (Dame Maggie Smith) and Professor Snape (Alan Rickman) was considered to be changed into Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) against Snape instead. The idea was scrapped by J.K. Rowling, who insisted that the duel should involve the same characters as in the novel, as she saw it as a key moment for McGonagall.

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  7. #010
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    In the book Hermione and Ron secretly sneak away to the Chamber of Secrets and destroy the cup. They also kiss in front of Harry. In the movie they tell Harry before they go to the Chamber of Secrets and they kiss down there.

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    A scene was pitched to director David Yates about a possible cameo of the Ford Anglia from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) that returns to save Ron from a pair of Death Eaters that corner him during the battle, but was scrapped because it seemed childish, and the car would quite possibly be destroyed in the forest by now.

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  9. #012
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    J.K. Rowling always knew that one of the Weasley family members had to die at the end, as it wouldn't have been realistic if they all survived. She actually considered having Arthur or Ron as the Weasley casualty at some point. Ron was seriously in danger of being killed off at a time when she "wasn't in a very happy place," but she admitted she would not have done it, as he forms an integral part of the series. Arthur was also briefly considered during Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), but she decided that, as one of the few good fathers in the book, he was allowed to live, and Sirius Black was the casualty instead. She ultimately settled on having Fred killed, as it serves two purposes: to give George a sense of loss and to provide the payoff of Percy's rivalry with his Ministry's archrival, Rookwood (who was revealed to be a Death Eater).

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    In the original script, when Harry jumps out of Hagrid's arms and reveals himself to be alive, Draco officially changes sides by running away from his parents and the Death Eaters and throwing his wand to Harry for use against Voldemort. This scene, which is not in the book, was filmed but ultimately deleted.

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    According to J.K. Rowling, one of the few characters that was sure to survive the entire series was Hagrid. She had always had an image of a grieving Hagrid, carrying a deceased Harry back to Hogwarts, which was fitting, since it was Hagrid who had once carried the infant Harry to his uncle and aunt, and also brought Harry into the wizarding world. After the movies were released, Rowling said that Hagrid would have been a natural character to kill off, but she always knew that she wanted to include that image in the end of the last book, which kept him safe throughout the series.

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  12. #015
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    Although all of the movies, except Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone (2001), have had a customized version of the Warner Bros. logo, this one has a scene (a replay from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) of Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) robbing Dumbledore's (Sir Michael Gambon's) grave) before the studio logo. The first time this has been done for a studio-made Hollywood movie in over seventy-five years.

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  13. #016
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    In the book, Snape's (Alan Rickman's) death originally takes place at the Shrieking Shack, a place where he has a significant personal history (as a boy, he was nearly killed there by Remus Lupin in werewolf form, but that information never made it into the movies). The art directors suggested and moved the location (with J.K. Rowling's agreement) to the boathouse in order to make it more dramatic and poignant. Art director Andrew Ackland-Snow added, "We wanted to get him out from, not a conventional interior, but from that kind of box, to do it in a more dramatic atmosphere."

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  14. #017
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    The filmmakers persuaded Tom Felton to convince his girlfriend, Jade Gordon, to play Draco Malfoy's wife, Astoria Greengrass, in this movie's epilogue.

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  15. #018
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    Before the final book was published, Daniel Radcliffe asked J.K. Rowling if Harry would die at the end. After a pause, Rowling responded cryptically, "You get a death scene."

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    The script was originally written, like the book, to include Draco Malfoy's bully friends, Crabbe and Goyle. As in the book, Crabbe was to be killed in a climactic battle. Jamie Waylett's arrest and conviction on drug charges, however, forced the filmmakers to change this plan. Crabbe was written out of the script, with Goyle being killed in his place (since the character and his performer, Josh Herdman, have been with the franchise since the beginning). Another Slytherin character called Blaise Zabini (portrayed by Louis Cordice since Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)) takes Crabbe's place from the book.

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  17. #020
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    Although Harry survives in the end, this is the only Harry Potter movie in which he does not deliver the final line (his son Albus Severus Potter does instead). It should also be noted that in the end of the book, Harry delivers the last spoken line, although the remaining text is narration.

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  18. #021
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    The hint that Neville (Matthew Lewis) ends up in a relationship with Luna Lovegood (Evanna Lynch) was created especially for this movie. J.K. Rowling had revealed that Neville and Luna married different people long before the final movie came out. She later described it as a brief summer affair, before they both found out they did not belong to each other.

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    A new musical piece, "Lily's Theme," is played three times in this movie. The last time is when Harry speaks to his mother, Lily Potter. The other two instances are during the opening scene, where Snape looks over the decrepit courtyard, and during his death scene, which foreshadows his unrequited love for her.

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  20. #023
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    In the scene where Neville (Matthew Lewis) stands up to Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes), when Harry revealed himself to be alive, and everyone reacted with joy, George (Oliver Phelps) turned and went to say "Fred" before remembering that he is dead.

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    Although it was never mentioned in the book, nor this movie, who killed Remus Lupin (David Thewlis) and Nymphadora Tonks (Natalia Tena), J.K. Rowling revealed, as an anecdote, that Bellatrix Lestrange (Helena Bonham Carter) killed Nymphadora, and Antonin Dolohov (Arben Bajraktaraj) killed Remus.

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  22. #025
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    (At around one hour and fifty minutes) In the penultimate scene, you can see that Harry destroys the Elder Wand and heaves it off the bridge. However, in the book, he used it to mend his own wand (with which he claims he is contented), since the Elder Wand was the only wand capable of mending broken wands. He then returns the Elder Wand back to Dumbledore's grave, and hopes to die of natural causes. This will leave the wand without a legitimate Master, and will cause it to lose its power.

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  23. #026
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    The filmmakers took many creative liberties with Severus Snape's memories in the Pensieve. In addition to adding scenes that were not in the book, such as the scene where Snape goes to Godric's Hollow and cries over Lily Potter's dead body, the sequence also includes instances from events which Snape never actually witnessed first hand.

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Behind the Scenes (27)

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    Director David Yates said that the epilogue was re-shot because the heavy make-up originally applied on the actors and actresses at adult age didn't reflect well in the dailies.

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    Harry's lightning bolt scar was applied by make-up teams approximately 5,800 times by the end of the film franchise. Daniel Radcliffe had the scar applied 2,000 times, while the rest were applied to stunt doubles and stand-ins.

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    Scenes with Harry and his friends on the dragon's back presented the greatest technical challenge related to the dragon effects. "Getting the lead characters to sit convincingly on the back of the dragon was a major technical hurdle," Vickery explained. "We aimed to avoid the slow, mechanical feel that often accompanies humans riding or interacting with large imaginary creatures." John Richardson's mechanical effects team created a practical, interactive section of the dragon's back for the actors to ride on a motion-control base. Vickery recalled: "We gave John Richardson our finished Maya model of the dragon, and he used it to CNC-machine a 1:1 scale 12-foot sculpture of part of the dragon's back. Nick Dudman then crafted a flexible foam latex skin for the creature's hide, while John built a mechanical rig to animate its movement. The rig employed pneumatic rams to raise the dragon's shoulders, twist the neck and spine in three locations, and lift the tail's top." The rig was operated via digital animation from the animators. "John detailed his rig components, and we created a digital version constrained to our 3D dragon in Maya," Vickery added. "Our lead creature technical directors, Gavin Harrison and Stuart Love, developed tools to extract previs animation data to drive John's mechanical rig. We could animate in Maya, export the data, and see the mechanical rig mimic the movements on set, with the actors on the back!" Due to the rig's physical limitations, specific filming adjustments were necessary, like using lower frame rates for some shots. Vickery noted: "Although the rig had a good range of motion, it was too heavy to achieve the speeds in our previs. We adapted our filming techniques—some shots were filmed at 18fps and then sped up to make the dragon's back appear faster." Ultimately, the rig was replaced with a digital dragon, composited into the scenes, with some sequences also using digital doubles of the actors.

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  4. #030

    Every wand featured in each film of the franchise was crafted on location. Inspired by descriptions from the books, each wand ranged from thirteen to fifteen inches and was uniquely made for every character. No two wands were identical.

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    The set of the Chamber of Secrets was recreated using both digital and practical elements. The corpse was an eight-foot-long, full-scale model of the Basilisk's skull and neck vertebrae, sculpted by a team led by Shaune Harrison and then molded in fiberglass.

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    The Australia House in London served as Gringotts Bank in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone (2001). For this movie, however, a set was built at Leavesden Studios, as the scenes involving the dragon crashing through the building would have been impossible to film on-location.

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  7. #033

    It was reported that a huge blaze wrecked the Hogwarts set after a battle scene went spectacularly wrong. According to the report, explosives used in action sequences set light to scenery for the wizardry school, and firefighters battled for forty minutes to bring the flames under control, but the set, centerpiece for this movie's Battle of Hogwarts climax, was left badly damaged. It was later confirmed that the fire was greatly exaggerated, and that the set that had been damaged was going to need to be rebuilt anyway for use in another scene. Some actors and actresses were still filming at the studio, but none of the movie's biggest stars, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, or Rupert Grint, were involved. No one was injured.

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  8. #034

    For scenes where the Ukrainian Ironbelly breathes fire, Double Negative effects animation supervisor Alexander Seaman used footage of John Richardson's pyrotechnic effects that had been devised for the Hungarian Horntail as reference, and created digital fluid flame effects.

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  9. #035

    Five twenty-nine-ton trucks worth of polystyrene rubble was used to create scenes of destruction throughout this movie.

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    For this final movie, the model of Hogwarts was created digitally, as opposed to the physical miniature scale model used in the previous movies.

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  11. #037

    Daniel Radcliffe reportedly broke eighty wands throughout the franchise because he used them as drumsticks.

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  12. #038

    When the trio arrives at Gringotts early on, Hermione has used Polyjuice Potion to disguise herself as Bellatrix. Before filming, Emma Watson performed the scene for Helena Bonham Carter to show her how Hermione would behave in that situation. Essentially, this scene features Helena Bonham Carter as Emma Watson, who is playing Hermione, who is pretending to be Bellatrix.

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    Aragog's legacy lived on, with his offspring making one final appearance during the battle for Hogwarts as digital creatures. "Framestore did the giant spiders," said visual effects supervisor Tim Burke. "That has a sweet backstory. Andy Kind, the supervisor who did the spiders, was the one at Mill Film who had worked with me on the spiders on the second film nine years back. Mill Film closed down, so those spiders no longer existed. He rebuilt them by referencing footage from that film."

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  14. #040

    During a 2021 podcast interview, Rupert Grint shared that filming the Harry Potter movies was sometimes overwhelming. He said, "There was a time when it felt quite suffocating, because it was heavy going, because it was every day for 10 years in the end. It was a great experience. Such a nice kind of family atmosphere ... But sometimes it definitely felt like, 'I want to do something else. See what else is out there.' It just never ended. Every year, we came back. And it was kind of like Groundhog Day because it was the same sets. It was the same people. But it was great. I loved it."

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    Rupert Grint and Emma Watson stated in an interview that they both had casts made of their buttocks ("bum casts"), which were used to create the bicycle-like seats mounted on the broomsticks, making them more comfortable to ride.

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    To portray Albus Dumbledore's brother Aberforth, Ciarán Hinds's appearance was changed with make-up so that he would resemble Michael Gambon more, specifically Gambon's characteristic bags under his eyes.

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    When the Ukrainian Ironbelly finally breaks free from imprisonment and rests perched on top of the buildings, breathing slowly, visual effects supervisor David Vickery related: "David Yates wanted this to be the first time we could really scrutinize the beauty of the dragon restored to her former glory. There was some incredible work in the skin and muscle deformers. As it spreads its wings, we used Maya nCloth simulations to create sag and dynamic flutter in the wing membranes. We broke that into separate meshes because it was so high-resolution, then ran nCloth on the fingers and the wing tips and reintegrated that into the creature body." Large flying birds such as albatrosses were used as reference for both the stumbling take-off and the flight scenes.

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    The creation of the Dementors was passed over to Rising Sun Pictures. The digital effects team developed a whole new creature rig with improved cloth simulation. Another innovation was the use of digital smoke to enhance their silhouette. "The Dementors were really just a black silhouette," said Tony Clark, Rising Sun visual effects supervisor. "But you can get a lot of emotion from them even though they are just a head, two sticky arms and the flowing cloth that has a seaweedy underwater feeling. The original brief was for them to be inside the courtroom which was a very dark environment, so they were enveloped in smoke to read the silhouette."

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  19. #045
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    The filmmakers wanted Voldemort's appearance to change subtly with the destruction of his Horcruxes. As each Horcrux is destroyed, he becomes increasingly hollow-eyed and develops small lesions on his skin. His clothing also lightens in color with every Horcrux destroyed.

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  20. #046
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    (at around 52 mins) At around 52 minutes, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint have stated in several separate interviews that filming their much-awaited on-screen kiss was an "extremely awkward" experience, due to both Emma and Rupert stating that they've always felt "like brother and sister". It took only six takes to complete, whereas the kiss between Harry and Ginny took around ten, Ron and Lavender approximately fifteen, and Harry and Cho took over thirty takes, by comparison.

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  21. #047
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    When Harry, Ron, and Hermione enter Gringotts near the beginning, Hermione has taken Polyjuice Potion to disguise herself as Bellatrix. Before the scene was shot, Emma Watson acted out the scene for Helena Bonham Carter so she would know how to act as if she were Hermione in this situation. So, essentially, this scene is Carter acting like Watson who is acting like Hermione acting like Bellatrix.

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  22. #048
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    The "Awkward" Hug: The hug between Voldemort and Draco Malfoy on the Hogwarts grounds was completely unscripted. Ralph Fiennes improvised it to make the scene more unsettling; Tom Felton's stiff, confused reaction is his genuine response to the surprise.

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  23. #049
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    Alan Rickman admitted to feeling awkward during the scene in which Professors Snape and McGonagall duel: "Thank God for computer graphics, because holding a wand is not throwing the most threatening thing you can do, and you're pointing it at Dame Maggie Smith, who you grew up worshipping from the cheap seats at the National Theater, and she's pointing a wand at you. She can arch an eyebrow like nobody. So thank God for the sheets of flame."

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    Daphne de Beistegui, the young girl who played Harry's daughter Lily in the epilogue scene, became very attached to Daniel Radcliffe, and even when the cameras were not rolling, she would be hugging him. Radcliffe stated in an interview that she seemed to have adopted him as a second father, but didn't mind her hugging him at all, saying that he thought she was really adorable. He also has mentioned that Daphne's mother was pregnant with her while working on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone (2001).

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    In every shot in which Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) and Bellatrix Lestrange (Helena Bonham Carter) appeared together, she always moved so that she stands on his right, traditionally the position of the most loyal and trusted follower.

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    After Dobby is buried, Harry remains at the burial site alone and places a small stone on the grave. There is an ancient Jewish custom of placing pebbles or small stones on a gravesite as a sign of remembrance and respect (Harry Potter is not a Jewish character, but the actor who plays him, Daniel Radcliffe, considers himself Jewish). After this movie was made, the filming location for this scene (Freshwater West Beach, Pembrokeshire, Wales) became a pilgrimage site for Harry Potter fans, with visitors leaving hundreds of small stones in tribute to Dobby. However, in late 2019 the National Trust decided that the shrine and memorial stones would be removed because the influx of visitors was having a negative environmental impact on the beach. Especially damaging to the ocean ecosystem were the thousands of socks being left on the beach; socks can easily kill ocean animals like turtles and seals that mistakenly consume them.

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    It is mentioned that Harry can hear the Horcruxes (portrayed in the movies by a shrill ringing sound), due to having a piece of Voldemort inside him. When Harry confronts Voldemort in the forest, the camera is framed from Voldemort's perspective and the Horcrux sound plays quietly, highlighting the new realization that Harry himself is a Horcrux.

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Characters & Cast (6)

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    Among the three main performers, Rupert Grint was the only one who never seriously thought about leaving the franchise at any time. Daniel Radcliffe considered leaving after the third movie, and Emma Watson after the fifth. However, none of them departed, and all three remained for all eight movies.

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    Goyle is the only Hogwarts pupil who casts the killing curse in the film franchise. He tries to kill Hermione with it in the Room of Requirement. When Harry used the curse trying to destroy the locket in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010), he was no longer attending Hogwarts.

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    When she was still quite young, Emma Watson was asked in an interview how she would feel about kissing either Daniel Radcliffe or Rupert Grint, to which she replied "No chance! It's not written in my contract!" However, by the end of the film franchise, she ended up having to kiss both of them. Emma was actually tipped off by J.K. Rowling, about the possibility of the kissing becoming an eventuality, around the time they were filming Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005).

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    After Alan Rickman began portraying Severus Snape, J.K. Rowling revealed certain character secrets about Snape that wouldn't be disclosed until the final book. Most notably, Rickman was among the few people outside Rowling to know, years before the last book's publication, that Snape had loved Lily Evans (later Potter) during their time at Hogwarts. The reasons behind Snape's protection of, and his hostility toward, Harry come from this knowledge. Rowling explained that she shared this with Rickman because "he needed to understand, I think, and does completely understand, and did fully understand where this bitterness toward this boy, who's living proof of Lily's preference for another man (a man who had tormented and ridiculed him), came from." According to Rickman, before the final book was published, the directors also didn't know Snape's true nature, and he had to ask that they trust his judgment in portraying Snape, even if they didn't fully understand the reasons. Rowling said in an interview that Rickman often boasted of knowing more than his fellow actors and actresses.

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    (at around 1h 45 mins) At around 1 hour 45 minutes, Molly Weasley's line, "Not my daughter, you bitch!" is Dame Julie Walters' favorite line throughout her role as Mrs. Weasley.

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    Other than Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) causing Voldemort's (Ralph Fiennes') spell to backfire, the only good character depicted as directly killing a Death Eater (in this case, Bellatrix Lestrange (Helena Bonham Carter)) is Molly Weasley (Dame Julie Walters).

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Easter Eggs & References (24)

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    During the fight between McGonagall and Snape, the torches along the walls diminish after she uses the fire spells. This hints at a detail from the book, where McGonagall redirects the flames from the torches to the tip of her wand, instead of just summoning them.

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  2. #061

    When the trio escapes Gringotts on the dragon, the London Eye appears in the background. The Battle of Hogwarts occurred in May 1998. Construction of the London Eye started in 1998 but did not open until December 1999. In the movie, it is shown as completed.

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    One of the Giants' weapons, in the battle at Hogwarts, is a broken Quidditch Goal Post.

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    At about 1 hour and 7 minutes, during a battle scene at Hogwarts, there is a callback to the monsters faced in the first three movies. While Harry, Ron, and Hermione are running through the grounds, they first encounter a Troll (first movie), then spiders (second movie), and finally dementors (third movie).

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    (at around 57 mins) At around 57 minutes, when Harry enters the Room of Requirement, in the bottom left-hand corner, there is the knight that Ron rides from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001). Also present are the Cornish Pixies set loose by Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). The set is made entirely out of props from all of the movies, around seventy-two containers of props.

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    During the climax, Lucius Malfoy runs away with his wife and son. This proves Voldemort correct in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) with the declaration that Lucius was not truly loyal to him.

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    (at around 1h 30 mins) When Harry comes to Voldemort in the forest, Voldemort calls him "The Boy Who Lived". Harry was called this by Hagrid in the first chapter of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone." Voldemort and Hagrid are the only ones to call him that.

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  8. #067
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    The Triwizard cloak which Harry wears in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) with "POTTER" printed on the back can be seen in the background during some of the Boathouse scenes.

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  9. #068
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    Ferrets were mentioned and/or seen in three "Harry Potter" movies: 1. In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Hermione (Emma Watson) urges the condemned Buckbeak, "Come and get the nice dead ferret" (when she and Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) rescue the Hippogriff). 2. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Draco (Tom Felton) was briefly turned into a ferret. 3. In this movie's epilogue, James Sirius Potter (Will Dunn) and Albus Severus Potter (Arthur Bowen) have ferrets as pets or familiars.

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  10. #069
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    If one looks carefully in the Room of Requirement, the huge boar statue from the first two films can be seen.

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  11. #070
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    The House crests can be seen on the shields of the stone soldiers as they protect Hogwarts. From left to right it's Slytherin, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, and Ravenclaw.

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  12. #071
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    Unlike the novel, Harry is fully clothed instead of being naked when his spirit arrives in limbo. This was likely due to censorship for younger audiences.

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  13. #072
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    When Harry and Voldemort meet in the Dark Forest, as described in the book, Harry must let Voldemort kill him so that the "horcrux Voldemort never intended to make" is also killed. The text is very clear that Harry must not make any attempt to defend himself and must keep his wand in a pocket out of reach of the horcrux, for the same reason. In the movie scene Harry has his wand in his right hand thus nullifying that plot point.

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  14. #073
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    In the scene where Neville (Matthew Lewis) stands up to Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes), when Harry reveals himself to be alive and everyone reacts with joy, George (Oliver Phelps) turns and starts to say "Fred" before remembering that he is dead.

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  15. #074
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    Near the start of this movie, Ron (Rupert Grint) asks Hermione (Emma Watson) if she is sure she has the hair of Bellatrix Lestrange (Helena Bonham Carter), and Hermione says she is positive. This could be a joke in reference to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), as Hermione accidentally took a cat hair and became Millicent Bulstrode's cat instead.

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  16. #075
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    This is the only movie where Snape calls Harry by his first name. In earlier films, he refers to him as "Mr. Potter" or "Potter."

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  17. #076
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    (at around 14 mins) In this movie, Harry used the first of the three Unforgivable Curses, by using the Imperius curse on the goblin in the bank. He previously used the Cruciatus Curse in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) against Bellatrix, and tried out the Killing Curse on the Slytherin Locket in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I (2010) in a deleted scene.

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  18. #077
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    When Harry breaks the Elder Wand in two after the Battle of Hogwarts, a couple bits of hair or other thread-like substance attached to one of the pieces are briefly visible. This would be in keeping with the construction of the Elder Wand, which had thestral tail hair as its magical core.

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  19. #078
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    The shard of mirror that Harry carried should not have been a piece of Aberforth's mirror, as Aberforth bought Sirius' (presumably whole) mirror from Mundungus. Harry's shard was in fact the remaining piece of his own shattered portion of the original pair of mirrors.

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  20. #079
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    If you watch closely during the duel between Snape and McGonagall, you can see Snape deflect a spell cast by McGonagall that is meant to kill the Carrows behind him. This foreshadows which side Snape was truly on and shows that he was never really evil.

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  21. #080
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    According to J.K. Rowling, the Battle of Hogwarts was fought on May 2, 1998. Victoire Weasley (Bill and Fleur's eldest daughter), seen in the background in the epilogue, has the same birth date, two years later, her name meaning "victory" in French.

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  22. #081
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    (at around 33 mins) At around 33 minutes, when Harry enters the Room of Requirement and the boy gets on the radio to alert the Order that he is there, you can see Neville's mimbulus mimbletonia on the desk: the plant that he was holding on the carriage at the beginning of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007).

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  23. #082
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    When Ron asks Harry how he would identify Hufflepuff's Cup as a Horcrux in the bank vault, Harry responds that he would have recognized it. This refers back to one of the four flashbacks of Riddle originally written for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), which introduces this McGuffin. However, director David Yates chose not to include this scene in the film, believing it would overly complicate Voldemort's backstory. For those unfamiliar with the book, that flashback depicts young Tom Riddle visiting Hepzibah Smith, a descendant of Helga Hufflepuff, to obtain the prized cup, which he poisons her to acquire.

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  24. #083
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    When the trio escapes Gringotts on the dragon, the London Eye can be seen in the background. The Battle of Hogwarts was in May 1998. Construction of the London Eye began in 1998 but it wasn't open until December 1999. In the movie it is completed.

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Deeper Meaning (8)

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    Although it is never stated in the movies, the last book implies that Harry and Voldemort are family through the three brothers from the Deathly Hallows legend. Harry is a distant relative of Ignotus Peverell, which is how he ended up with the Invisibility Cloak; Voldemort was related to Cadmus Peverell, and thereby unknowingly inherited the Resurrection Stone (which he set into a ring and from which he made a Horcrux).

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  2. #085
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    In this movie, Voldemort feels his Horcruxes being destroyed as he is seen in discomfort each time one gets destroyed. Harry and Nagini, due to having a part of Voldemort's soul in them, also feel the destruction. Before he dies, it is implied by his facial expression that Voldemort was aware that Nagini, his final Horcrux, was killed, thus making him mortal.

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    Voldemort dies turned into ashes. Something very proper for him, after he was reborn into fire in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005).

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  4. #087
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    The dragon in the depths of Gringotts has been trained to expect pain when the goblins ring the bell instruments. This form of learning is called operant conditioning, which is an associative learning process involving behaviour modification through reinforcement using a reward or punishment. In this case, the reinforcement was in the form of a punishment, that of receiving pain.

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  5. #088
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    Among the eight pieces of Voldemort's soul, Dumbledore's ring, Hermione's cup, Ron's locket, and Neville's snake each destroy one. Voldemort unintentionally destroys the fragment inside Harry, while Harry destroys two-the diary and the diadem (though only in the movie; in the book, the diadem is destroyed by the fire Goyle ignites). The final piece, within Voldemort's own body, is destroyed during the Battle of Hogwarts when Voldemort casts a spell that rebounds off Harry.

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  6. #089
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    After Voldemort killed Harry as a Horcrux, Harry lost the ability to speak Parseltongue.

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  7. #090
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    As the train with the next generation of children on board leaves King's Cross Station heading towards Hogwarts, at the end of the movie, the song playing over the scene is the same one as the last scene in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone (2001), where Harry waves goodbye to Hagrid and leaves on the train to head home from Hogwarts. The song is titled "Leaving Hogwarts". Officially ending the franchise, besides Hedwig's Theme.

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  8. #091
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    (At around fifty-seven minutes) When Harry goes into the Room of Requirement, in the bottom left hand corner, there is the knight that Ron rides from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone (2001). Also present are the Cornish Pixies set loose by Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). The set is made entirely out of props from all of the movies, around seventy-two containers of props.

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