Similar to the interview from Australia we showed you the other day, a Belgian newspaper has online new interviews with Tom Felton and Bonnie Wright to promote the Half-Blood Prince DVD. Of particular note is this photo of the cast (thanks, Snitch Seeker) on the Deathly Hallows set as well as Bonnie and Tom talking about filming the epilogue:

Tom Felton: We still have several months filming. The last scene we will probably be filming the scene 19 years later is playing. I'm very curious how we all will be.

Bonnie Wright: I'm looking forward to returning to King's Cross station. I had my first scene for the first Harry Potter movie ten years ago. I hardly knew then what acting was. I especially remember that I was freezing.

Tom: We've spent more than ten years together on this film set. We have grown up here. It will be strange to say goodbye.

Bonnie: Who knows, we can have a reunion in about ten years. What became of the actors? Maybe we'll play together in the Harry Potter musical. (Laughs)

According a new article online, a crew has been filming footage of the Yorkshire Dales for use in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Grassington Moor and the impressive 80m limestone crag of Malham Cove will feature in the film.

Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority chairman Carl Lis said:

"It's good to think that the iconic landscape of the Dales is going to be seen by a worldwide audience in the next Harry Potter film."

Thanks to Brandon for the tip! For all we have on Deathly Hallows be sure to check out our Movie 7 section.

Sometimes, watching CNBC has its payoffs. I happened to be watching and caught one of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park commercials we first told you about the other day.

You can watch it right here on YouTube. It's not the best quality (I recorded it on my iPhone), but there isn't anything new that needs to be seen in high resolution.

If you see any commercials, please send them in to tips at staff dot mugglenet dot com! We've heard there are multiple versions airing on TV.

Back in August, we told you about a new book coming this December called "One Day in the Life of Daniel Radcliffe". It includes 50 photos of Potter actor Dan Radcliffe taken on January 13th, 2009. At the time, he was living in New York to star in Equus.

Entertainment Weekly has received a sneak peek at one of the photos. From EW:

[Photographer Tim] Hailand features photos of the Harry Potter star rehearsing for his stint in the Broadway show Equus, eating his breakfast, and... stepping out of the shower.

“There are a lot of young girls that want to get close to Dan,” Hailand says, “and this is a way to get close to him.”

As we move toward 2010, The Telegraph is taking a look back at the top 100 books of the past decade. Coming in at No. 1 is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The entry reads:

If you don’t know what a Muggle is by now, you’re either Rip van Winkle or enormously stubborn. This is the seventh and final instalment in Rowling’s record-breaking series about Harry Potter, the world’s most famous lightning-scarred boy wizard and his tribulations with Lord Voldemort. We’ve seen Harry grow from a spindly, messy-haired 11-year-old into a heroic young adult. Children have grown up with him, finding in his battles metaphors for their own. This volume alone sold 15 million copies in the first 24 hours after it was published. Whether wickedly skewering suburbia, or bringing Harry, Ron and Hermione into mortal danger, Rowling is never less than absorbing. Some may sneer at her books, but they are triumphant sagas about the defeat of evil that tap into our basic hunger for stories. Most importantly, she makes reading a 700-page book seem easy. This one even has a quotation from Aeschylus as its epigraph. It stands as a cornerstone of the decade, a melding of high and low culture that appeals to all ages and nations.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone came in at No. 41 on the top 100 films of the past decade list. Do you think Deathly Hallows deserves the top spot?

Thanks to Leaky!

Wouldn't it be cool for your school's houses to be named after the four Hogwarts houses? At Oxford University, students are currently on their way to making that happen.

For the first time in 550 years, the Magdalen College Junior Common Room at Oxford has been changed to the Gryffindor common room. From The Telegraph:

Students are now campaigning to rename Christ Church, St Hughs and Merton colleges common rooms after the three other houses in Hogwarts; Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw.

"Magdalen College embodies the values of courage, daring, nerve and chivalry," third-year student Zoe Tyndall, 21, who proposed the name change.

"These are the characteristics of the Gryffindor house in Harry Potter novels."

The motion was passed with only six students opposing the name change.

Tom Meakin, President-Elect of Magdalen Junior Common Room added: "Magdalen does after all look a little bit like Hogwarts, and not to put any noses out of joint, but my Vice-President does look a little bit like Hagrid."

Dan Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton, and Bonnie Wright sat down with an Australian morning television program to discuss growing up on the set.

The interviews were conducted on the set of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to promote the Half-Blood Prince DVD. One particular highlight is Dan noting that after Christmas they are truly in the home stretch of filming.

View the interviews right here on YouTube. Thanks to Snitch Seeker for the tip!

We've received three reports now about a small television commercial for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park. It aired on NBC this morning during the Today Show. From MuggleNet reader Brooke:

It was simple with a black background with "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, opening Spring 2010 in Orlando, FL" in yellow Harry Potter font. The voice over basically just read the same thing and explained that it was a Harry Potter theme park. I thought it was really cool to see because I live in Lexington, KY - obviously no where near the park!

Sarah M. wrote in to say that towards the end actress Emma Watson talks about how great the park will be and the commercial wraps with Hedwig flying over Hogsmeade and stopping at Hogwarts castle.

On a related note, Universal has passed along this new video they put together which includes all of the announcements we learned about in September relating to the Wizarding World. No new content, but it's a fun refresher!

Just last week MuggleNet and Warner Home Video launched the Road to Hogwarts Sweepstakes, where visitors could participate in various Half-Blood Prince DVD-related activities and earn more entries into the contest.

Today, they've launched a new way to enter with their partner CafeMom Games:

The Road to Hogwarts Sweepstakes continues its journey by launching Join the Slug Club! CafeMom Games has the activity EXCLUSIVELY this week so participants will have to head over there in order to gain another entry towards The Road to Hogwarts Sweepstakes.

Professor Horace Slughorn is delighted to invite visitors to join the Slug Club. Anyone who aspires to be anyone in the wizarding world hopes to end up on his shelf! Through the magic of Harry Potter, you can stand alongside Slughorn's favorite students from Hogwarts. In this activity, users are able to Join the Slug Club by either uploading pictures of their face into one of the moving sequences or using a webcam or mobile video cam to upload their video image into the frame.

The BBC recently spoke to Potter stars Dan Radcliffe and Rupert Grint, who both comment on the success their Goblet of Fire co-star Robert Pattinson has had with his work on the Twilight saga. Here's what Dan had to say:

"I haven't spoken to Robert since we saw each other at the opening of a gallery three years ago," said Radcliffe. "We've been sort of exchanging advice through journalists, bizarrely."

"It is totally mad, when people are screaming and going absolutely insane for you.

"Particularly with Robert - the amount of women that would jump on him - you have to keep it in some kind of perspective, by thinking 'well, partly they like me and partly they are just attracted to the character'.

"As long as you don't think 'oh yeah, God they're all doing this - I must be absolutely fantastic'. As long as you do that, you should be all right."

As announced last week, MuggleNet and Magical Tours are teaming up to find the perfect intern for the 2010 Harry Potter themed tours in Britain. The person selected will participate in all four Magical Tours itineraries - all expenses paid!

Some entrants have been unable to download the application guidelines, so we're posting them for you RIGHT HERE. Use the information to compose your application e-mail.

After the initial selection rounds the finalists will be invited to post video "auditions" on YouTube. The videos will be on MuggleNet for our visitors to vote for their favorites. Visit MagicalTours.org to check out the fantastic 2010 tour schedule. All Magical Tours are now open for reservations. Check out this great new season!

Potter actors Tom Felton and Warwick Davis were both in attendance at a Memorabilia fan convention in Birmingham over the weekend. Both spoke to fans about Potter, and Tom had some interesting things to say about his work with Deathly Hallows. From The Telegraph:

Felton said: "We've just finished doing the most substantial bits of filming.

"I think we're revelling in the fact that this is it- the last one. I get quite emotional just thinking about it."

"I'm not looking forward to not being blonde anymore. I've forgotten what my real hair colour is."

A report on Snitch Seeker from a fan who attended the convention also reveals that Tom touched on filming the Epilogue:

Tom was asked if he was to be used in the epilogue and as yet doesn't know but he told us that a mould of his face and the others was made last year and he was asked to provide photos of his brothers & father and remarked he couldn't wait to see himself wrinkly.

Earlier today we showed you one of the deleted scenes to be included on the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DVD.

Tonight, all eight deleted scenes included on the DVD are up on YouTube at this link.

Of particular note is a scene where Dumbledore says the line "I am not worried Harry, I am with you."

I won't be watching them because I want to wait for the DVD on December 8th here in the United States! Thanks to CJ and Ryan for the tip.

A deleted scene from the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DVD has appeared on YouTube!

This one is of the trio walking through Hogwarts discussing the Vanishing Cabinet and its functionality.

The scene is obviously incomplete (its missing audio transitions and lacks any background music), so don't be surprised when you notice a glitch or two.

For all we've got on the Half-Blood Prince DVD, click here. Thanks to Abby and HPFANTimothy for the tip!

The latest episode of our Harry Potter podcast is now available! Join Ben, Micah, Matt, Nick and I for discussion of the latest news, chapters 10 - 12 of Chamber of Secrets, an impromptu Lady Gaga song parody by Dumbledore and Fawkes, and much more!

- We learn about the initial relationship between David Heyman and Chris Columbus...
- ...and that Dan Radcliffe almost wasn't Harry Potter.
- MuggleMail covers the Deathday Party movie omission, Ben's trend-setting, Muggle-borns and more.
- Chapter-by-Chapter: Chamber of Secrets 10 - 12.
- What is the deal with Hermione's rule-breaking? Does it have to do with Malfoy?
- Is the concept of The Dueling Club a good idea for the school and its students?
- Why is Dumbledore so accepting of Harry's lies?
- Avada Kedavra, Imperio, Love Potion returns.
- Don't forget to vote for MuggleCast in the 2009 Podcast Awards!

All that and a LOT more can be heard by downloading! To download the fun for free, we recommend subscribing through iTunes. Just CLICK HERE and then press "Subscribe" to the right of our album art. (Already subscribed? Refresh your feed!) No iPod or MP3 player needed! You can also visit the MuggleCast website to listen right within your browser, or to download the MP3 file to your desktop.