Premiere Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1, di London

We've been here six times before but Thursday night's penultimate premiere gave Harry Potter's protagonists a chance to start bidding farewell to the movie franchise that has changed their lives.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 is all about the chaos that engulfs the wizardry world as Lord Voldemort takes hold of power and sets out to destroy our brave Harry. Actor Daniel Radcliffe, though keen to move on from the part that has made him a household name around the world ("Ten years with one character is a long time") wanted to stress that the decision by Warner Bros. (a sister company to TIME) to split the seventh and final novel into two movies was the right thing to do. "I was always very much in favor of it being two parts, and I think most people were, simply because we all realized there was no way you could do justice to the book and really capture the story in one film," Radcliffe said. The second part is released in July 2011.

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