Lochaber-News has posted an update with regards to the filming of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as 100 senior students of Lochaber High School in Fort William boarded the Hogwarts Express as extras, fulfilling their roles as “apprentice witches and warlocks”.
The article gives mention to the Potter cast and crew to Glencoe, Glenfinnan and Glenspean to ensure continuity with the previous five titles. Glencoe providing the backdrop for Hagrid’s Hut, the Sundial Garden and the Bridge to Nowhere, for the Prisoner of Azkaban, and the Glenfinnan railway viaduct is now more familiarly known to hundreds of thousands of tourists as the “Harry Potter Bridge”.
The article also reports that an airborne film unit, and cameramen aboard a fish farm boat have been shooting computer-enhanced sequences, above and on the loch, the tranquillity of whose inland waters once echoed to the sound of tracer bullets when the Commandos trained there during World War II.
To check out the complete article click here. Half-Blood Prince is set to hit theaters on November 21, 2008.
