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Not long after Alan Rickman started to play Severus Snape, J.K. Rowling told him some character secrets about Snape that would not be otherwise revealed until the last book. Most significantly, Rickman was one of the very few people other than Rowling to know (years ahead of the last book's publication) that Snape had been in love with Lily Evans (later Potter) when they were students at Hogwarts, and both Snape's protection of, and antagonism toward Harry, came from that. Rowling said that she shared this information with Rickman because "he needed to understand, I think, and does completely understand, and did completely understand where this bitterness towards this boy, who's living proof of Lily's preference for another man (a man who had tormented and ridiculed him), came from." According to Rickman, the directors prior to the publication of the last book were not privy to the information of Snape's true character either, and he had to ask them to defer to him on the portrayal of Snape, whether or not they understood why. Rowling joked in an interview, that Rickman would often gloat that he knew more than the other actors and actresses.
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Harry's lightning bolt scar was applied by make-up teams approximately 5,800 times by the end of the film franchise. Daniel Radcliffe had the scar applied 2,000 times, while the rest were applied to stunt doubles and stand-ins.
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Daniel Radcliffe reportedly broke eighty wands throughout the franchise, because he used them as drumsticks.
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Of the three main performers, Rupert Grint was the only one who never seriously considered leaving the franchise at some point. Daniel Radcliffe thought about leaving after the third movie, and Emma Watson after the fifth. Neither did depart, however, and all three stayed on for all eight movies.
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Following the completion of this movie, most of the Hogwarts sets were put on display for the public as part of the Warner Bros. Studio Tour London.
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It had been reported that, due to her commitment to Nanny McPhee Returns (2010), Dame Emma Thompson would be unable to appear in the Deathly Hallows movies. However, she was able to return shortly before the end of filming to once again play Professor Trelawney. She joined her Nanny McPhee castmates Dame Maggie Smith, Rhys Ifans, and Kelly Macdonald. Her sister Sophie Thompson was in Part 1, as Mafalda Hopkirk. Due to their history, Emma Thompson only came in on days that Helena Bonham Carter was not on set.
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