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Thank you for posting this, "Beyond Hogwarts"! I loved reading the interview and I go and get the paper if it'as still available, Stuart Craig appears to be very thoughtful, I love the snitch and the Monster Book creations, they are definately two of the best. Another is Buckbeak, they created a spectacular model of him, straight out of my imagination. "Goblet of Fire" is my favourite film - despite the fact that it doesn't remain that faithful to the book. But the thing is, Mike Newell caught the spirit of it really well in my opinion, and that's the main thing. The graveyard scene were Harry's parents emerge from the wand is utterly hearbreaking. Hardly any film ever makes me cry but this scene did.

As for Alan Rickman's performance - I bet his be the very scene that make me cry once more, even though David Yates directed it. Alan cannot fail.

Posted by Siena from Nottingham, UK on April 10, 2010 06:41 AM

I cried at the end when Mr Diggory realised that Cedric was . And in the book, too. But yes, when Harry's parents appear from the wand, still protecting him from beyond the grave, and in the book all the voices of Voldemort's other victims. Powerful stuff.

DH is guaranteed to be a weepfest. Snape, Fred, Remus & Tonks, Dobby. We'd better take boxes of tissues, Siena!

Posted by Elizabeth from Australia on April 14, 2010 03:50 AM

You are right! Jeff Rawle's despair as Amos Diggory at the sight of his son's body appears very realistic on screen;I like the way the whole scene is shot too, very fast camera movements, the crowd first cheering than gradually an awareness of what happened sinks in when Harry appears with the body. It's almost as gut-wrenching as Al Pacino's cry in "The Godfather" when his (film) daughter gets shot. I remember that very well when I saw it for the first time - and literally could never stomach to see it again.
In the book GoF it was awful to imagine Mr and Mrs Diggory in Prof Sprout's office, and the restrained pain in Dumbledore's words when he tells Harry that they are with her as she was Cedric's Head of House and "knew him best." Then afterwards Dumbedore's powerful speech at the feast, announcing that Cedric was ed by Lord Voldemort and the urge to always remember the brave and loyal person Cedric had been.

Posted by Siena from Nottingham, UK on April 16, 2010 04:12 AM

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