The Harry Potter Obsession Test is back! After a couple months of being online, due to a bug that surfaced when we did some back-end updates, it has been fixed and put back up, better than ever.

Warner Brothers has released a high resolution image from the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince movie. It is the first image to be released from the new film.

The picture (as seen below) depicts Harry showing Snape’s copy of Advanced Potionmaking to Ron and Hermione in the Gryffindor common room.

Thanks to Leaky and Mugglenet.

Empire Magazine has a new article up about the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows film (2010). The interview, with producer David Heyman, relates to the decision to make Deathly Hallows a two-part movie, and has a few new facts of interest.

(Via The Leaky Cauldron)

It’s official. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be two movies, not just one. Producer David Heyman says that it is for “purely creative reasons,” not just to make some more dollar signs off Harry Potter, like a lot of skeptics claim (skeptics who are probably not Harry Potter fans, I’d bet…). David Yates will direct both halves of the film, becoming the longest-running HP director.

Some other points of interest:

• The two movies will be titled “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I” and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II”
• Steven Kloves will screenwrite
• JKR is okay with the decision
• The first half of the move will be released “holiday” 2010, the second part following in late spring to early summer 2011.

Matt Lewis (who plays Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter films) recently stated that filming for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows would start in February 2009. He is also of the opinion that it will probably be a two-part movie, though the producers have yet to confirm this.

According to J.K. Rowling’s website, today, March 1st, is Ron Weasley’s birthday.

“Wicked.”

Today is both James and Oliver Phelps’ 22nd birthday. In case you didn’t know, the Phelps twins play Fred and George Weasley in the Harry Potter films. Hopefully they will be in he sixth film!

Has anyone else seen these videos? They’re by the Harry Potter Alliance, and the first one is about a year old now. Harry Potter and the Dark Lord Waldemart Part I and Part II. Here’s part one:

Dan Radcliffe said at the BAFTA awards “I have no idea how that rumour started or where it came from. It’s not true. How’s that for a definitive answer? It’s absolute rubbish that Spielberg is directing the final film. It’s not true. There’s absolutely no foundation in that at all.”

As stated earlier, no director is being considered yet.

Filming for the film adaptation of the seventh Harry Potter book will start in February next year. David Heyman and David Barron confirm that a two-part film is still a possibility, though nothing has been decided. No director has been chosen yet either, as the deadline is still a year away. (Read more at TLC.)

The sixth movie, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, is still in production and will be released this November, on the twenty-first.