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...Meanwhile she keeps half a dozen plots simmering on the back burners. It's book 7, so it's time for the remaining couples to pair off. Tonks and Lupin get married, as do Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour. Harry's romance with Ginny is still smoldering, and if their liaisons have a sanitized, G-rated quality to them, they also have a wartime urgency that's kind of hot. With an eye for the unexpected, Rowling hands out a parting gift of redemption to a dodgy minor character or two. Most importantly, as Harry's own story is playing...
...pink-sweater Dolores Umbridge, Hogwarts’ latest Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. When the camera lingers on her spoon dipping into a pot of faintly pink sugar, the sweet stuff has never looked more deadly. Rupert Grint also makes his best showing to date as Ron Weasley, and Helena Bonham Carter is electric and nightmarish as Azkaban-escapee Bellatrix Lestrange...
RUPERT GRINT, 17 Making a bid for independence, Harry's best pal has a role in the indie Driving Lessons, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival April 30. Like Ron Weasley, Grint says, his new character is "very awkward around girls," including Julie Walters, who plays "a crazy old lady." For those following at home, she played his mom in previous Potter films; his mom this time is Laura Linney...
...coming along nicely as the young hero, though it?s up for grabs whether the teen actor will have the chest hair to face the horrors in store for Harry. I?m getting quite fond of Emma Watson as Harry?s pal Hermione. Only Rupert Grint?s Ron Weasley, the whiny ginger kid who represents the working class at Hogwarts, tries my patience. The film?s one unneeded plot strand concerns an estrangement between Ron and Harry. Why bother sundering them when we know they?ll get back together...
...that's what's been going on at Leavesden for the past five years. When Daniel Radcliffe was cast as Harry (after a small part in The Tailor of Panama), he was only 11. Emma Watson (who plays nerd-girl Hermione Granger) was 10; Rupert Grint (Potter pal Ron Weasley), almost 12. Now, with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire set to open in two weeks, they've spent a third of their lives making movies. They've gone from children to teenagers entirely within the weird, closed bubble of the Potterverse...