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Did you miss the Quidditch game in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix? Well, you can rejoice now that the upcoming movie (6th in the series) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince where there are good sequences of the game.

As Harry Potter begins his 6th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he discovers an old book marked mysteriously, “This book is the property of the Half-Blood Prince” and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort’s dark past.

Enjoy the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Featurettes.

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This one specifically focuses on quidditch costumes - Quidditch: Back in Style, features costume designer Jany Temime presenting a new padded quidditch uniform. She says that because the characters are now older, they are more physical in their play of the sport, hence the need for shoulder pads and such.

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Set Magic: Creating Wool’s Orphanage, production designer Stuart Craig discussing the plans for and construction of Wool’s Orphanage. For those out of the loop, Wool’s is the childhood residence of Tom Riddle (aka young Voldemort). Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince began filming two months ago.

UPDATES

16th Nov, 2007:

Geeks of Doom reported that the casting for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is complete. There are few new introductions to the 6th installment of the Harry Potter series - Jim Broadbent and Helen McCrory. Broadbent will play, Horace Slughorn, the new potions professor who gives Harry Potter an old Potions textbook that had once belonged to the a former student known only as “The Half-Blood Prince.” McCrory, who was originally cast to play Bellatrix Lestrange in the 5th film, but had to bow out after she became pregnant, appears in the sixth film as Narcissa Malfoy, mother to Draco, wife to Lucius, and sister to the wicked Bellatrix Lestrange (Helena Bonham Carter).

There will also be many other young newcomers. Jessie Cave will be playing Lavender Brown, a fellow Hogwarts student who becomes Ron Weasley’s love interest; 16-year-old Frank Dillane will be a teenage Tom Riddle, who is already on the path to becoming the evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) and Fiennes’s 9-year-old nephew, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, will appear as a young Riddle at age 11.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be released on 21st Nov, 2008.

Via: Cinematical, WorstPreviews and Geeks of Doom.