* for the second time, i watched harry potter last night on a vcd. i'm getting addicted to this film. i have even set up my background theme to a Hogwarts wallpaper and selected harry potter icons on my aim buddy list..hehehhe.. anyway, let me share with you the following that my interest you harry potter fanatics...

10 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE LATEST POTTER FILM

1 ONE major episode in the novel, Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, was left out of the movie: The Deathday Party for Nearly Headless Nick.

In the book, the ghost threw a party to celebrate his 500th death-day. In the party, moaning ghouls waltz to music that sounds like 'a thousand fingernails scraping an enormous blackboard'.

Director Chris Columbus decided not to film it because he felt that the segment would have slowed down the film's pace.

2 At the end of The Chamber Of Secrets movie, Hermione rushes up to hug Harry, but stops short of hugging Ron. The hugging scene wasn't in the book.

Columbus wanted the kids to hug at the end of the movie. But Emma Watson, who plays Hermione, was shy and didn't want to hug the boy leads in front of all 350 child extras gathered for the final scene. She ended up getting away with giving Daniel Radcliffe (Harry) a quick hug instead.

In the final cut, both Hermione and Ron looked shy and avoided each other, as if they are trying to hide their affections for each other.

3 In one scene, a bewitched Ron (Rupert Grint) throws up dozens of slugs. The slugs were made of rubber and greased with gelatin that came in different flavours, such as lemon or chocolate. Grint's favourite was the lemon-flavoured goo.

4 The three child actors often created a lot of mischief on the set. Robbie Coltrane, who plays the gentle giant Hagrid, said the kids would put 'kick me' or 'I'm stupid' signs on his back, or change the language on his mobile phone screen into something foreign, like Portuguese. 'They're very professional and well-behaved. But they're just very cheeky, which is nice.'

5 Although he's only 13, Radcliffe likes classic punk music by bands which came and went mostly before he was born, such as The Sex Pistols, The Damned, The Stranglers, The Undertones and The Clash.

'I like (punk's) attitude,' he said at a press conference in London's Guildhall.

6 Radcliffe also aspires to do some stand-up comedy, according to Coltrane: 'He really likes bad schoolboy jokes, such as 'What does a schoolboy wear when he bursts into flames? A blazer'. He knows millions of them.'

7 Encouraged by the first film's success, Columbus allowed for more improvisation on the set.

'Jason Isaacs, who acted as the evil Lucius Malfoy, came up with a line at the end of the film: 'Let us hope Mr Potter is always around to save the day.' Then, I asked Daniel to say 'Don't worry, I will be' and say it like Clint Eastwood,' he revealed. 'It wasn't in the book, but I loved that moment and kept it in the film.'

8 The second Harry Potter film is apparently so scary that the censors in Britain slapped it with the warning: 'Contains mild language and horror, and fantasy spiders'. The film is rated PG here and in the US.

9 Hormones raged among the adolescents on the Harry Potter movie set. Columbus said: 'The problem I had in the Great Hall on one of the days was, a lot of notes were being passed back and forth - he likes her, she likes him. Finally, I said: 'Guys, this is not a romance school.' '

He also added that Grint was one of the favourites among the girls.

10 The second Potter film is more politically correct, claimed an Oct 23 article in the New York Daily News. The article said the film had about five people of colour, both children and adults of Asian and African descent, which it said was strikingly more than the first film.

Warner Bros, the studio behind the films, said that the second film had more scenes with large groups of kids, hence increasing the chance of having minorities in the movie.

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