A new video from Warner Bros. shows us the “Last Days” of filming for several principal cast members and the trio. David Thewlis, Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltrane and Helena Bonham-Carter all take their bows as they say farewell. Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Helena, David Heyman and David Yates share their thoughts on the last day of filming, and then Daniel gives an emotional speech on the final day, and then hugs Rupert and Emma.

“I don’t know, how do I put that into words. What an incredible experience. I just feel so blessed that I was chosen. I was given the chance to experience all of this, and have this be part of my life.

Yeah, very lucky.” – Emma Watson

Hopefully Warner Bros. will release this in HD. I think this is the best featurette they’ve done, and I hope we can get it without subtitles and logos.

Emma Watson is on the cover of UK Harper Bazaar’s August issue. Previews of the cover and a number of photos have been previewed by the Daily Mail along with some excerpts from the interview. It’s a “good girl” “bad girl” idea behind the photoshoot, light colors and flowers vs. black and strong poses. There will be a normal cover wth Emma as the good girl, and a special subscriber cover showing her other side. The August issue goes on sale in the UK this week.

About leaving Brown

‘Leaving Brown had nothing to do with bullying, as the media have been suggesting recently. I have never been bullied in my life. Like a lot of other students at Brown, I might spend my third year abroad.’ When asked why she didn’t originally chose an English university, Watson explained: ‘I felt suddenly very claustrophobic…I thought, “I can’t stay here, I won’t be able to concentrate, I won’t be left alone.”‘

Trouble playing the bad girl

‘My acting tutor said the hardest thing for me was to get angry. I almost broke down in tears when they tried to get me to be angry. I said, “I can’t do it, I just can’t do it.” ‘I keep all of that really bottled up somewhere and I feel unleashing it would be the scariest thing – and to let myself be powerful, sexy, all those things, it’s scary for me. [Even playing the bad girl in this shoot] felt a bit uncomfortable and awkward, it didn’t come naturally at all.’

“There has never been room in my life for that [rebellion] – I couldn’t imagine giving my family any more trouble, it’s already been complicated enough.”

“My dad is one of the top international-communications lawyers in the country, and trying to argue with him was a nightmare, so I learnt quite quickly to be good with words. My mum is an incredible woman. She moved back from Paris with my brother and me after the divorce, and worked full-time, supporting both of us. But I felt I wanted to take care of her – I didn’t want to give her a hard time.”

About the Hollywood lifestyle

‘LA scares the c**p out of me. I feel if I have to work out four hours a day, and count the calories of everything I put in my mouth, and have Botox at 22, and obsess about how I look the whole time, I will go mad, I will absolutely lose it.’

We have two more videos about the scene from Gringotts. The first is a behind the scenes look at the “Disguises” the trio use to break into Bellatrix’s vault, and includes interviews with Emma, Rupert, Helena and the Davids. The second is a clip of the trio and Griphook in the vault.

Warning: Spoilers ahead!

Honorable mentions go to Kathy, Rinske and two from Jia. Thank you to everyone that entered, and thank you to all who voted.

All the competition entries can be viewed here.

Warner Bros. has updated their MuggleHub website with photos, videos, posters and wallpapers. Here are three wallpapers with our favorite witch Hermione.

 
Warner Bros. has also released a new clip from Deathly Hallows 2 through Fandango. In this scene Ron and Hermione enter the Chamber of Secrets, and then, well. that’s a spoiler.

Warning: The whole clip is a spoiler.

Emma’s interview in Seventeen is now out. Emma talks about university life and life in America, taking a break, being too self-critical, and the pressure to fit in. The magazine includes three new images from the photoshoot.

Update: Sorry, forgot the first page of the text.

Emma talked with Vogue about the Mark Demsteader portrait series, how it came about, and which is her favorite. At this time, only one original is still listed as available.

Tell us about how you came across Mark’s work?
“I grew up in Oxford and used to walk past a gallery on my way home from school that sold his work. I would stop and look at his pieces, and try and figure out how he did them for hours. I’ve always followed his work.”

How did the collaboration come about?
“I went home to Oxford and saw his pieces again and realised I should really try and buy some of his work. I haven’t really bought any art yet, even though I love it. So I contacted Mark about buying a drawing as a present to myself for my 21st birthday. When I emailed him he asked if I would let him paint me, and that was how the exhibition came about. I was slightly hesitant at first, not because I didn’t want to work with Mark, but simply because I wasn’t sure if I was comfortable with an entire exhibition of pictures of me! But Mark said I could do it for a charity of my choice, and I really couldn’t pass up the chance to actually be in one of his paintings. I am so glad I did it.”

How long did you spend sitting for Mark?
“As it takes Mark several months to create the pieces, he finds it easier to work from photographs so I met him and a photographer for a day’s photo shoot in north London back in January. It was a really simple shoot with just a single light to cast shadows. We took lots of pictures in a variety of poses and Mark went away and selected 30 or so to turn into paintings.”

How does the process being painted compare to being photographed – like your Vogue cover shoot?
“Whilst I didn’t sit for Mark as such, it was a completely different photo shoot to anything I’ve ever done before. It was really low-key – I did my own makeup and just brought a selection of very simple dresses for the silhouette. Mark did the lighting. Quite different to my British Vogue cover shoot in 2010 which involved a huge team of professionals!”

What do you think of the finished works?
“I am thrilled with how they have come out; they are beautiful. Mark is so talented – I wish I had a fraction of his skill!”

Which is your favourite?
“It is very hard for me to choose a favourite as they are all beautiful. However I think my favourite is the oil painting in a yellow dress.”

Will you buy one?
“I absolutely would have bought one but Mark was very generous and actually gave me one of the paintings as a thank you. He gave me the oil painting I mentioned above.”

Tell us about the charity the sale will benefit.
“CAMFED works with girls in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Ghana and Tanzania. Without their efforts, millions of girls in these countries wouldn’t be able to go to school to get an education and to improve their and their family’s lives, and this is mainly due to poverty. Families in poorer rural areas in Africa simply can’t afford to buy books or pay school fees for all their children, so they have to make the difficult choice as to which of their children should receive an education. Girls are rarely chosen as traditionally it has always been perceived that boys had a better chance of getting a paid job after graduation. I’m lucky enough to live in a country that gives me an equal right to my schooling: I’ve never had to contend with the kind of prejudice and sexual discrimination women in these countries deal with every day. My education has been so empowering, and has given me such stability and independence, and the idea of giving other girls the opportunities I have been lucky enough to have makes me very happy. CAMFED works extremely hard to raise money to sponsor girls through primary school, secondary school, college and professional schools to give them the opportunities they might otherwise have missed. Not only does this allow girls in these areas to better achieve their potential academically and in their careers, it also improves their quality of life in other ways, through education about HIV for example. It is a sustainable and long term solution to some very difficult problems, and by supporting these young girls is able to make a huge difference. It is a fantastic charity and I hope to work with them further in the future.”

Three more featurette videos for Deathly Hallows Part 2 have been released. From Yahoo! Movies we have “Horcruxes”, with clips and interviews with Emma, Rupert, Dan and the Davids about the Horcruxes and why they are important to the story. In “Gringotts & Goblins” from Entertainment Weekly, we get a behind-the-scenes look at the scene where Harry, Ron and Hermione break into Gringotts, the wizard bank, in their search for one of the Horcruxes. And finally we have “The Story” which came out last week.

Warning: Spoilers!

Yeah, I know I posted about Seventeen already, but now we have the cover, and another photo, in HQ. Thanks to tunescool.

Emma also covers Atrevida from Brazil in another photo from Mariano Vivanco. Apparently she is on one of three alternate covers for the July issue. Daniel Radcliffe has one of the other covers. Sorry Rupert Grint fans, the third one is Neymar, a footballer, but from the cover it does appear that all three, Emma, Dan, and Rupert, are interviewed. If anyone gets HQ scans, please send them in.

Reminder
Since news is moving along quicker now, don’t forget the vote for the calendar is now open.

Warner Bros. has released a new featurette via Apple. “Where We Left Off” is a little refresher of what happened in Part 1, and where we are in the story as Part 2 begins. It includes clips from both parts, and interviews with Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and the three Davids – Heyman, Yates and Barron.