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Unable and unwilling to return to school for his final year Potter, along with his best friends, Weasley and Granger, is forced to leave the safety of his allies in order to track down and destroy the remaining horcruxes - the (mostly) inanimate objects in which Potter's arch-nemesis, Voldemort, placed parts of his soul in his bid to achieve immortality.Īfter 10 years, the three lead actors are totally at ease with their characters. Dumbledore, Potter's mentor and the much-loved head teacher at Hogwarts, is dead, murdered at the hands of Severus Snape at the end of the Half-Blood Prince.

The story here begins, as always, at Potter's home from home - the modest terrace house that belongs to his only living relatives, the Dudleys. The behemoth of a last book in the series - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - proved too much to tackle in one go, and the result has been two instalments, the second of which will be in cinemas this summer. Now the movies, which made stars of Daniel Radcliffe (Potter), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley), and Emma Watson (Hermione Granger), are drawing to a close. They rejoiced with him when he discovered his true destiny they shed tears when characters he was close to were killed and they cried a whole lot more when the series of novels drew to a relatively satisfying close in 2007. A whole generation grew up alongside Harry Potter and his companions. It goes without saying that the muggle world (that's non-magical types) has changed irrevocably since JK Rowling scribbled the first notes for her stories in a café in Edinburgh.

Since the first book was published in 1997, the story of the slight-looking 11-year-old boy who was not just a wizard but the wizarding world's hero-to-be, has been encouraging millions of children around the world to read more.įrom the minute young Mister Potter was introduced, in a cramped cupboard under the staircase of the Dudley household, much of the world fell under - for lack of a better phrase - his spell.

Ten years and more than six billion box-office dollars since the original film was released, and Harry Potter is still as huge a draw as ever. Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson

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