Story:
Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) enters his
fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The wizarding
community has shunned him and Albus Dumbledore, head of Hogwarts, who
claim that the evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes)
has, after 14 years, regained a body and been restored to full power,
and are instead influenced by the propaganda of The Daily Prophet and
the intentional obliviousness of the Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge.
Fudge appoints a new Hogwarts Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher,
Dolores Umbridge, who steadily begins to take over Hogwarts through the
support of the Ministry. Harry and his friends Hermione and Ron
immediately dislike Umbridge as she refuses to allow them to discuss the
return of Voldemort, and when she teaches them inadequate practical
lessons. Thus, "Dumbledore's Army" is founded, as an underground
organization with Harry as leader to prepare twenty-seven of his
schoolmates in case of a battle with Voldemort, which proved useful at
the conclusion of the film.
trivia:
- based on the book series by JK Rowling
- Helen McCrory was originally cast as Bellatrix Lestrange, but due to
pregnancy she had to be replaced by H. Bonham Carter
- Mira Nair and Jean-Pierre Jeunet were approached to the direct the
film. Both declined
- J.K. Rowling's final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is
scheduled to be released one week after the premiere
- the main cast of Harry Potter signed on for the final two movies after
filming had wrapped
- there were rumors of Emma Watson trying to get out of her contract
- budget: about 150,000,000 $
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