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In the draft of the family education promotion law, guardians will be reprimanded and ordered to go through family education guidance programs if prosecutors find very bad or criminal behavior in children under their care.
It's a family-friendly trip down memory lane and you don't even have to be a huge Potterhead to enjoy it. Those adorable kids who grew up making the Harry Potter movies are all grown up, and Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) is even a dad. The gang's back together in a new reunion special, Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts, streaming now on HBO Max. And even the biggest fans likely will learn some new facts about the blockbuster saga.
Asked to read Lucius Malfoy's lines instead, he was irritated, so read them "through gritted teeth and deeply bitter," Isaacs says with a laugh in the special. Perhaps that helped him get the role. Draco and his dad Jason Isaacs didn't want to play Draco Malfoy's dad, Lucius -- instead he auditioned for the role of Gilderoy Lockhart.
An elaborate prop bird was created for Fawkes, but Harris reportedly thought it was a real bird. In 2002's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which featured Richard Harris playing Dumbledore, we meet Dumbledore's pet phoenix, Fawkes. Order of the not-so-fake phoenix This last tidbit sounds like an urban legend, but the actors and crew claim it's true.
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Quidditch unmasked Credit to the various Potter directors -- the scenes of Harry and pals zooming around on brooms playing Quidditch are pretty amazing, and fun to watch. Viewers of the special get a treat -- you'll see behind-the-scenes footage of Radcliffe sitting on his broom, which is just part of a complex prop, with a green screen behind it.
It wasn't an easy road to hire him, though, as his parents didn't want young Dan to commit to a seven-film series, especially since at the time it was thought the films would be made in America. But as we all know, Radcliffe signed on, and the rest is magical history.
He doesn't say if Harris ever figured out that Fawkes was not an actual living, breathing bird, but just an elaborate puppet. "So the prop people kept moving it and responding," director Chris Columbus recalls with a laugh, as clips are shown of Harris marveling over the responsive creature.
(The scene was deleted from the movie, but can be watched as an extra feature.) Once though, he accidentally went too far, smacking Felton's hand with a cane and not realizing the cane had sharp teeth that cut Felton's hand. And Isaacs said that while he loved young Tom Felton, who plays his son, college alpharetta Draco, 3.14159 song he was "as unpleasant as could be" to him on set, trying to set up the cruelty that ruled the Draco-Lucius relationship.