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A new photo of Dan Radcliffe as Harry Potter from the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows film is on the cover of the August 20th edition of Enternainment Weekly.  You can see the photo of the cover in our gallery here!

Their feature includes a report from the set from last year.  Here’s some of what their small report says:

“I’m ready to kind of move on now, I think,” Grint said between takes. “This film is a great way to finish the whole era, and it’s going to be sad, because obviously all my friends are here, but 10 years is enough.” The three of them were shooting a scene in the Room of Requirement in which Harry, Ron, and Hermione are searching for a horcrux — in this case, the tiara-like Ravenclaw diadem. Watson and Grint were both sopping wet. (In the film, Ron and Hermione have recently destroyed another horcrux in water and were pursued by a Voldemort-shaped tsunami.) Grint and Watson were kept soaked by crew members, who sprayed the pair down every few minutes. It was not making Watson happy.
“It’s been this way for weeks,” she said, shivering next to a space heater. “I hate to sound whiny, but it’s horrible. It’s miserable being wet all the time.”
She shrugged and added flatly: “But, you know, I was told it will look very dramatic when you see the films, so it will be worth it.”

Radcliffe, meanwhile, seemed to be in a tug-of-war with himself about finishing his run as Harry Potter. “This film has been hard to make, and I’ve had some of the most trying moments, both physically and mentally, than ever before,” he said. “I wasn’t entirely thrilled with my performance in Half-Blood [Prince] — I found it quite same-y, and didn’t think there was enough variation in it — so I’ve worked hard to make sure that if the seventh film comes out and I’m still unhappy with it, I’ll know it won’t be from lack of trying.”

If you’re able to send in scans of the article, please let us know!

Thanks to UHP for letting us know!

SPOILER UPDATE:

Thanks to RupertGrint.net, we now have scans of the complete article in the photo gallery.  The special Deathly Hallows layout include new photos such as Hagrid and Harry on Sirius’ motorbike, Xeno Lovegood at his house; Harry reaching for his wand at Bathilda’s; Ron and Harry sneaking into the Ministry; Draco and the Death Eaters with Voldemort at Malfoy Manor; Harry and Hedwig; and Harry and Hermione in the forest.  Also, there is a separate section of photo profiles on  Xenophilius, Runcorn, Scrimgeour, Bagshot, and Gregorovitch.

The article confirms that the split between Deathly Hallows Part I and 2 “will end at about Chapter 24 of the book, with Voldemort gaining possession of the Elder Wand, one of the three Deathly Hallows that allow the bearer to conquer death.”

There are more quotes from the trio and the director David Yates about the last day of filming:

As production on the two films wound down this summer, the three stars faced the prospect of having to film their final scene together.  ”It was bizarre,” Watson said last week by phone.  ”Walking on to set that day, there was this incredibly thick atmosphere.  It felt like a moment in history.  It felt really big.”  In the scene, Harry, Ron, and Hermione have broken into the Ministry of Magic.  They jinx a woman and drag her into a tiny storage area.  So the final frame ever shot of all three actors takes place in a cramped little room.  ”These characters have been in the most fantaistical situations at Hogwarts- they’ve been in the Dark Forest, all these extraordinary places,” says Yates.  ”It was an odd way to finish, really.”  But poetic, perhaps, considering that the whole series began with a boy who lived in a tiny room under the stairs of a house on Privet Drive.  ”In a way,” says Yates, “the series started with a cupboard and ended with one.

Click here to read the profiles and the complete article scans in the photo gallery.

UPDATE 2: Thanks to Warner Bros., we have high resolution copies of the photos from the article in the photo gallery.  Click here to see them.

Source: TLC

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