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Entertainment Weekly have posted a lengthy feature on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

In the feature, they talk about how the film's release date was pushed back, a set visit that included filming of a very emotional scene, and interviews with screenwriter Steven Kloves, director David Yates, Rupert Grint, Dan Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and producer David Heyman. The article also gives a good run down of a lot of the film, and more!

Read more to see some of what this great feature included.

The set visit...

Daniel Radcliffe stands on a crumbling stairwell that descends into a derelict corner of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, thumbing out a text message on his cell phone. At the call to ''Action!'' the young star slips the phone into his trousers and spirals down the stairs to find costar Emma Watson sitting on a step, stifling tears. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, adapted from J.K. Rowling's penultimate Potter novel, Harry's pal Hermione Granger (Watson) is realizing that her heart belongs to Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint). The problem: Ron has just hooked up with Lavender Brown (newcomer Jessie Cave). In this scene, Harry tries to console his friend, but the job becomes infinitely harder when Ron and Lavender come bumbling into this dark corner of Hogwarts looking for a place to snog. Hermione shoos them away with a magical gust of wind, then weeps harder. Even after ''Cut!'' Watson continues to tear up, and Radcliffe offers comfort with a lingering side hug and whispered praise. ''Bloody f---ing brilliant, Emma. Just top-notch.''

They explain how Harry takes pensieve lessons and is trying to find out about Voldemort's past. ''Until now, there's been all sorts of talk about finding and fighting Voldemort,'' Radcliffe says. ''In this film, Harry starts taking steps towards actually doing that.''

When speaking with screenwriter Steven Kloves, he says he's concerned that since the books are now finished that some of the excitement of the films will diminish for fans. He also talks about how the past is used to help the present in Half-Blood Prince. ''It illustrates just how much the past informs the present and how much an act of evil can reverberate through the years and affect so many lives,'' Kloves says.

David Yates, the director, states they've taken down the number of flashback scenes down to three. ''We see Voldemort as a little boy, and then on two occasions we see him as a student. By doing that, we honor the spirit of what Jo [Rowling] had done but avoid getting stuck in narrative cul-de-sacs.'' Yates, whose bookish demeanor belies an exuberant, boyish energy, was a celebrated TV director in England prior to Potter. He says the franchise's ''great creative canvas'' inspired him to return. ''You've got the biggest train set in the world here,'' he says. ''If you can think it, you can do it.''

Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) is excited he gets more screen time. ''There's more for me to do, which I'm really pleased about,'' says Grint...Grint found that manufacturing the illusion of the high-flying sport wasn't that exhilarating. ''I always wanted to do it,'' says the redheaded actor, who turns 20 this month. ''But imagine literally sitting on a broom for hours in a big blue room, just on your own. A bit boring, and it does hurt quite a bit. Something of an anticlimax, I guess.''

Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) has a larger role in the film as well! ''Reading the book, I didn't think Hermione would be in it that much, but it's turned out to be the most interesting and challenging experience yet,'' she says.

Dan gets to flirt and faces some acting challenges. Radcliffe had to maneuver through his own amorous maze in Prince — the opening sequence finds Harry flirting with a waitress, and at Hogwarts, he becomes increasingly smitten with Ron's sister, Ginny (Bonnie Wright). He says he played the scenes by importing lessons from ''the Daniel Radcliffe school of flirting.'' Which means? ''Look at them until they notice you and hope for the best,'' he says. You wouldn't think the hectic life of Harry Potter would allow much time for cultivating real-life dating experience, but somehow Radcliffe has acquired some. ''I never had any idea how to talk to girls until a year or so ago,'' says the 19-year-old actor during a break from shooting last April. ''I still come out with trivial crap when I'm flirting, but I like to think I'm doing it in a faintly endearing way.''

The film also includes the heaviest moment in the franchise to date — the one involving He Whose Death Must Not Be Named (so as not to spoil it for people who haven't read the book). Radcliffe says shooting that sequence challenged him because there were extras on set at the time, many of whom treated it like a party. Complicating matters, the young actor has limited experience dealing with death, and worried over how to play the scene. ''I don't pretend to have given an incredibly accurate rendering,'' he says. ''To people who have lost people in their lives, if I don't bring to the screen what they would want or expect to see, I take responsibility for that and apologize.''

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