It looks like the second part of the final installment in the Harry Potter saga will turn out to be more surprising than we thought, even for the actors themselves.
Four different endings have been shot for the Malfoy family, as revealed to MTV by Helen McCrory, who plays Narcissa, mother of Draco and wife of Lucius Malfoy (Harry’s biggest antagonists after Lord Voldemort).
There are spoilers here – if you’ve been keeping yourself pure then stop reading now.
Whoever has read the final book knows: the story is complicated, there’s quite a lot going on, and we can only guess that the producers must be having a tough time trying to piece everything together and make it look as striking as the audience expects it to be. It’s the last of seven hugely successful movies; it has to be perfect.
However, Harry Potter fans will be chewing their nails with worry after these news (well, at least the hardcore ones will) thinking what “four different finals – and three different battles!” could imply. Slightly modified lines? Different outfits? Harry screaming “levio-ssa” instead of “levio-sa” (yes, we know, we never got that either)?
In truth, they know that something much worse lurks behind those words, in the form of the ominous fairy of literary adaptations who could end up changing the ending of the story – or any other part of it. It has happened before, and it didn’t leave fans particularly impressed.
The movie is out in July this year, and the anticipation is growing exponentially. Helen McCrory remains quite tight lipped, and swears she doesn’t know which ending will eventually make it onto the big screen -and far from wanting to spread rumours, we don’t know either.
Bonnie “Ginny Weasley” Wright says it’s “really weird”. Let’s just hope the only shock we have will be due to seeing Harry, Ron and Hermione made to look like they’re 40.
Report by Margherita Pellegrino
