Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

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7000 Harry Potter fans were in Leicester Square in London last night to see the stars attend the world premiere of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

It is suppsoed to be the scariest Harry Potter movie so far (scary for the kids). It will be rated 12A in Britain, whereas all the other Harry Potter movies were rated 12. That means, if you are a kid, you have to be at least 12 to be able to watch it and you must be with an adult.

The Mirror.

7 November 2005

SPELLBOUND

Fans and stars flock to premiere of new Potter film



By Allison Martin


THE magical world premiere of the fourth Harry Potter film cast its spell over 7,000 fans last night.

Madonna, supermodel Claudia Schiffer and film actress Kate Beckinsale were among the celebrities at the gala in London's West End.

But they were overshadowed by Harry actor Daniel Radcliffe and his co-stars.

Some fans defied the foul weather to queue for more than 24 hours. And Daniel, 16, said: "For people to wait out here all day in the pouring rain is just amazing."

Leicester Square was transformed into a scene straight out of one of the author JK Rowling's adventures for the screening of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Celebrities had to cross a bridge bathed in ghoulish green light and walk past a caged fire-breathing dragon.

Emma Watson, 15 - Harry's Hogwarts schoolmate Hermione - looked classy in a chiffon outfit she said once belonged to a mystery film icon.

She revealed: "This is a 1920s vintage dress made for a past screen goddess. I thought it was appropriate that I wear it."

The crowd was also treated to a look at new star Katie Leung, who plays Harry's first love interest Cho Chang.

The Scottish teenager, 18, said: "It's rally daunting, I can't believe I'm here.

"It's inevitable that a few girls are going to be jealous, but everyone in the crowd has been lovely to me tonight." Daniel described her as "beautiful". He and Rupert Grint,17 - his screen pal Ron Weasley - wowed fans in designer velvet jackets.

Amazingly, Madonna, 47, and a children's author herself, admitted she had never picked up a Harry Potter novel.

The pop queen - there with daughter Lourdes, nine, nicknamed Lola, revealed: "I'm here for Lola. I'm her date.

"I haven't read any the books. Lola has though.

"I get my kicks from the movies - I think JK Rowling's brilliant. I love her work because it's clever and smart.

"It's for everybody, adults and children alike."

And to prove the point the crowd included people of all ages. Gran June Vickers, 67, said: "I love the books almost as much as my grandsons do. I borrow the books from them and we've seen all the films."

Sarah Profitt, 38, who travelled from Norwich with daughter Gemma, nine, said: "She's a Harry Potter obsessive.

"We started reading the books to her. Now she reads them all herself.

"She so wanted to be here for this so we came down for the day. It's worth it just to see her looking so excited."

Gemma added: "My favourite is Ron - he's funny. Now I can't wait to see the film."

And Potter power attracted Hollywood star Kate Beckinsale, who brought daughter Lily, six and former West Wing actor Rob Lowe.

They were joined by Timothy Spall, Maggie Smith, Miranda Richardson, Roger Lloyd-Pack and Robbie Coltrane, who all star in the movie.


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Photos of the stars in Leicester Square last night -


Daniel Radcliffe and Katie Leung.




Robbie Coltrane, who played Hagrid.


Jarvis Cocker, lead singer of rock band Pulp.
 
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My mistake. The 12A rating means that people of any age can watch the movie, although children aged 12 and under need to watch it with an adult, and the other 3 movies were each rated PG, which means "Parental Guidance" in the UK's film cassification.

Is Scary Potter too frightening?
by MATT BORN, Daily Mail
8th November 2005




Ferocious: One of the merpeople from the new film


The critics are united: The latest Harry Potter movie is the best yet. And the scariest.

Amid the plaudits, there is growing concern that it could be too frightening for the boy wizard's younger fans.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire has a 12A rating, meaning that children under 12 cannot see it without an adult.

It is the first time a Harry Potter film has had such a classification - the three previous movies were each rated PG.

The British Board of Film Classification has warned the latest film has the "potential to frighten some children". The critics agreed.

"Small children, beware!" said the Daily Mail's Christopher Tookey, while the Daily Mirror's reviewer said it was 'much, much darker than anything that's come before'.

Horror lurking around the corner


Child psychologists warned that frightening films can cause psychological damage.

Lee Miller, a consultant at Young Minds, a child mental health charity-said: "In rare cases, children can develop phobias as a result of seeing a film and those can persist into adulthood.

"Parents should take care to find out as much as possible about the film beforehand and judge whether it is the sort of thing their child is likely to be upset by."

Screaming spiders


In the movie Harry faces a 'nightmarish' underwater test and comes face to face with his enemy Lord Voldemort, played by Ralph Fiennes.

Other horrors include Mad-Eye Moody torturing screaming spiders and a dragon trying to tear Harry apart.

Professor Barrie Gunter, of Leicester University, a psychologist who specialises in children and the media, said Harry Potter's popularity with youngsters made it even more traumatic when terror struck.

"The more you feel for a character, the more you are afraid," he said.

Older children, who had a greater sense of anticipation, could actually be more affected than younger view-ers, he said.

"Much of the horror and suspense comes from what is lurking around the corner. As a result, older children might actually be more frightened by it."

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Have not read a Harry Potter book and have not seen any of the movies. .......and don't intend to.

nothing personal..... but when something is that sensationalized........not interested.
 
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It's only sensationalizaed because it is sensational. I just really like the storylines and characters, no sex or swearing or suggestive anythings, which is also a nice change.
 
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Hi Bev, Ocean,

One of the things that hooked me was when my grandson who was six years old at the time started and finished a four hundred page book. I emmediately read that first book and bought him everyone of them. Part of the charm of Rowling's books is that she doesn't talk down to her readers. I found that these books had a mythology every bit as deep as lord of the rings and the stories were better. I would reccomend Harry Potter to all kids, no matter how old they are.
 
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My great-nephew (is there such a relationship?) got interested in reading, as a result of Harry Potter, so JK Rowling is okay by me.

Naturally, his grandmother was concerned about all she heard about the danger of children reading about magic. I reminded her that when we were his age, we had devoured all the E. Nesbit books at the library.

While asking what damage she had been done, I pointed out that all Nesbit's books had engendered in me was a passing acquaintanceship with Greek Mythology and an abiding interest in Victorian and Edwardian literature.

When she finally read the first book she was convinced that it would do him no more harm than the Psammead had done us.
 
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14 November 2005

50 HOTTEST HARRY FACTS

Test how potty you are about Potter..

By Nick Webster

YOU may know Draco from Dumbledore, muggles from merpeople and kappas from kelpies.

But that doesn't mean you are an expert about JK Rowling's brilliant young wizard Harry Potter.

With just four days to go to the hugely anticipated opening of blockbuster movie Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, we cast a know-it-all spell to discover 50 fascinating and little-known facts about the wizarding world.

But be warned - if you've not read all six of JK Rowling's record-breaking books a few of our revelations may spoil the story for you.

1, WHEN Arthur Weasley takes Harry and his pals to the Ministry of Magic they must first dial a secret code into a telephone keypad. He enters the number 62442. The letters underneath those numbers on a standard mobile phone spell out the word "magic".


2, IF a muggle spotted Hogwarts, they would just see an old ruin with a sign "Keep out, dangerous building".


3, NATALIE McDonald, who appears on page 159 of Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, was a real person.


She was a nine-year-old girl from Toronto, Canada, who was dying of leukaemia. She wrote to JK Rowling asking what was going to happen in the next Harry Potter book as she would not live long enough to read it.


The kindly author emailed back, but Natalie had died a day earlier. In tribute, she became a first-year student at Hogwarts named by the Sorting Hat in Gryffindor - the house for the brave at heart - in the fourth book. When Rowling was later in Canada for a promotional tour she visited the McDonald family.


4, LORD Voldemort is definitely NOT Harry's dad. Rowling has a retort for anyone who develops this theory: "You lot have been watching much too much Star Wars."


5, HERMIONE'S Patronus is an otter because JK Rowling likes otters and sees herself in Hermione.


6, ROWLING named the driver and conductor of the Knight Bus after her grandfathers, Ernie and Stanley.


7, WIZARDS find garden gnomes a pest because they eat the roots of plants, and, like moles, make little piles of earth.


8, QUIDDITCH started in the 11th century at a place called Queerditch Marsh, which is not marked on muggle maps because wizards have made the place unplottable. Originally it was quite a crude game played on broomsticks with just the quaffle.


9, TWIN jokers Fred and George, the owners of Diagon Alley's new Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, celebrate their birthday on the stupidest day of the year, April Fool's Day.


10, SIRIUS Black is named after the brightest star in the night's sky, also known as the Dog Star. This is very apt since when Sirius used his skills as an animagus he turns into a big black dog.


11, LILY Evans was the name of Harry's mum, before she married James Potter. She's no relative of minor character Mark Evans.


12, PEEVES was never a living person. He is not a ghost but an indestructible spirit of chaos, who can unscrew chandeliers, throw walking sticks and generally cause mayhem.


13, DEMENTORS don't breed but grow, like fungus, where there's decay.


14, DUMBLEDORE is an old English word for a bumble-bee. JK Rowling says she believes this suits the Hogwarts head because "one of his passions is music and I imagined him walking around humming to himself."


15, THE most Ordinary Wizarding Levels a witch or wizard can receive is 12.


16, USUALLY, wizard children are educated at home before attending Hogwarts at 11, because they cannot be trusted to keep their magical abilities hidden from muggle schoolmates. For example, the Weasleys were taught at The Burrow by Mrs Weasley.


17, THERE are about 3,000 wizards in Britain.


18, THE four houses at Hogwarts correspond to the four elements. Gryffindor is fire, Ravenclaw is air, Hufflepuff is earth and Slytherin is water.


19, MEMBERS of the Order of the Phoenix communicate using their patronuses. They are the only wizards who know how to use their spirit guardians in this way and were taught to do so by Dumbledore, who invented this method of communication. The patronus is an efficient messenger because it is effective against the dark arts, not hindered by physical barriers, and each is unique - so there's never any doubt as to who sent it. Dumbledore's patronus was a phoenix.


20, PROFESSOR Flitwick is so short because he has goblin ancestry, probably through his great-great-great-grandfather.


21, DEAN Thomas always thought he was a muggle after being raised by his mother and his stepfather when his father walked out on the family when Dean was very young.


What he doesn't know is that his wizard father never told his wife what he was because he wanted to protect her. He was killed by Death Eaters when he refused to join them.


22, IN the world of wizard wonga there are 29 bronze knuts to a silver sickle and 17 sickles to a gold galleon. In muggle money a galleon is worth about £5. But exchange rates can vary.


23, HARRY could not see the thestrals until his fifth year because it was only then he really appreciates what deaths mean. He was in his cot, so he never saw his parents die - just flashes of green light. He didn't see Professor Quirrell die. Only when he witnessed Cedric Diggory's death, and it had sunk in over the summer, could he see the thestrals.


24, COLIN Creevey's camera runs not off batteries but off the magical atmosphere at Hogwarts. Then he develops the photos in a magic developing potion which allows the figures inside the picture to move.


25, A PUFFSKEIN'S favourite food is bogies. A puffskein is a big fluffy yellow ball of fur from which a long tentacle emerges when it's looking for food.


26, DUMBLEDORE'S brother Aberforth is the barman at the Hog's Head in Hogsmeade. He smells of goats.


27, THERE are 10 different species of dragons in the magical world of Harry.


28, HERMIONE'S cat, Crookshanks, is not just a normal cat - he's half-kneazle. A kneazle is a very intelligent cat-like creature which sniffs out suspicious characters very quickly and reacts very badly to them. When a kneazle takes a liking to a witch or wizard it makes an excellent pet.


29, THE Death Eaters were once called the Knights of Walpurgis.


30, HARRY'S middle name is James, Hermione's is Jane, Ginny's is Molly - after her mother - and poor old Ron's is Bilius.


31, THE core of Hermione's wand is dragon heartstring, so Harry, Ron and Hermione unite the three Ollivander wand cores.


32, WIZARDS need money because there are laws about what can and cannot be conjured out of thin air - and the item conjured will not last.


33, MAGIC cannot bring dead people back to life. So no matter how powerful a wizard Harry becomes, he will never bring his parents back to life.


34, DEMELZA Robins, the Gryffindor Chaser in Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, is named after Daniel Radcliffe's favourite charity: the Demelza House Children's Hospice, which cares for terminally ill youngsters in Kent, East Sussex and South London.


35, JK Rowling, Harry Potter and actor Daniel Radcliffe all share the same birthday, July 31.


36, THE first names of the Hogwarts founders Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin are Godric, Helga, Rowena, and Salazar.


37, TO remove the tail that Hagrid gave Dudley in the hut on the rock, the Dursleys went to a private hospital where the staff were very discreet and said that a wart had got out of control.


38, THE animal that an animagus turns into is a reflection on their personality.


39, NEARLY-HEADLESS Nick was beheaded - well, almost - for messing up a bit of dentistry. He was trying to straighten Lady Grieve's teeth, but instead she sprouted a tusk. When his head was on the block the executioner swung his axe 45 times but still didn't completely remove it from Nick's neck.


40, AZKABAN is in a very cold sea to the north of the NorthGINNY'S full first name is not Virginia, but Ginevra.


41, A MAGICAL quill detects the birth of every magical child, and records it in a book. Then Professor McGonagall sends an owl to each child when he or she turns 11.


42, A WAR took place in the wizarding world at the same time as the Muggle Second World War. The evil wizard Grindelwald was finally defeated by Dumbledore in 1945, the same year as Hitler's downfall.


43, RON was amazed to hear that Tom Riddle received an award for special services to Hogwarts, saying jokingly: "Maybe he murdered Myrtle; that would've done everyone a favour." He DID murder Myrtle, through the Basilisk.


44, THERE'S more than meets the eye to Aunt Petunia. But she's not a squib - offspring of a wizarding family who are not able to practise magic themselves.


45, HARRY is frequently told he "has his mother's eyes". Lily Potter's eyes were startling green and almond-shaped. Harry's inherited facial features will turn out to be vital to the plot.


46, WHEN Dumbledore heard Voldemort had used Harry's blood to come back to life there was a "gleam of triumph" in his eyes. It could mean the Dark Lord has already sealed his own fate.


47, IF JK Rowling writes an eighth Potter book it will be an encyclopaedia of the wizarding world to use up all the background on characters left out of the books.


48, WEST Ham United is the only football club mentioned in the books - in honour of one of JKR's oldest friends, Troy, who supports them. She also lends her name to one of the Irish Quidditch players along with other old mates Moran and Quigley.


49, GINNY'S first name is not Virginia, but Ginevra.


50, JK Rowling has one more book to write in the series. But she has already written the last chapter - and the final word is "scar."


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