Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Thanks once again to Oclumencia for two new shots of Michael Gambon and Dan Radcliffe at the Lacock Abbey set for HBP back in October 2007. You can see them both below.

( Dan and Michael on-set. )

Sorry about the extra post, but I can't be bothered to stick an addendum to the previous one. Oclumencia put up two more hi-res shots from the Lacock Abbey shoot that took place last October (containing Dan Radcliffe and James Phelps), which can be seen below.

( Two more from Lacock. )

Thanks very much to Oclumencia for sending me a few hi-res shots from the Lacock Abbey and Gloucester Cathedral shootings for HBP. You can see clear shots of Dan Radcliffe, James Phelps, and David Yates, along with Dumbledore's and Harry's body doubles.

( More shots from GC and LA. )

I went through This is Wiltshire and found three more new photos from the Lacock Abbey set, where scenes for HBP were shot last October. Got another one of Dan signing autographs, too.


( Two more under the cut. )

I do love my random finds. The Wiltshire Times (in numerous posts), has a bunch of old photos from Lacock Abbey when scenes were shot there for HBP, with Dan Radcliffe and Michael Gambon. That's actually the original source of the two photos of James Phelps in the previous post, by the way. I even found one of Dan signing autographs, so that was sweet.


( More photos of the set under the cut. )

These are two very old photos of James Phelps (Fred Weasley), who was working as a crew member for HBP at the Lacock Abbey set last year (you can see Dumbledore's double in the second photo). Thanks to Phelpsaholics for them.

Thanks to HP4UNews for finding some more shots of Dan Radcliffe and Michael Gambon (and his body double), from when they shot scenes for HBP in Lacock Abbey last month. The photos are from Big Pictures, and can be seen below (they resemble those that Just Jared had up).

Edited because I found the original source, which had much larger photos.

( More of Michael and Dan on-set. )

Thanks once again to TLC and their set reports, which state that shooting at Lacock Abbey is going on as we speak, so with some luck, we might get more photos tomorrow, too. Anyway, we got a great deal from Friday night's shoot, including a fair few of Michael Gambon signing autographs, so check those out under the cut.

( Another look at Budleigh Babberton. )

That's it for now. Let me know if I've missed anything (sorry about snapping the other day, btw).

LMAO, and it's about time, too! Here I was thinking that no early production could be complete without early shots of Hagrid's hut being built outside Leavesden Studios. Thanks to London Taxi Tour for the photos.

( I guess Hagrid's hut made it in. )

More to come in a few, so stick around.

Got loads more from TLC, but this time it's a lot of close-ups to the set and a few at the end of Michael Gambon signing autographs. Check them all out below. Most of them are pretty large, by the way, so be wary of that.

( Another venture into Lacock Abbey. )

I think all the photos online were from yesterday's filming, so there's an excellent chance we should get more from tonight's filming.

Here are the shots you lot have been waiting for. Thanks to Just Jared for getting large but blurry shots of Dan Radcliffe and Michael Gambon on-set at Lacock Abbey for HBP. You can tell it's between takes since Dan hasn't got the glasses on and Michael's got his beard covered, but hey, there it is.

( Harry and Dumbledore on their way to meet Slughorn. )

I've got a lot more coming, so stay tuned. And guys, just because I haven't posted photos up the second they're online (I'm only human, and not around 24/7), doesn't mean I won't get to them. It's kind of annoying getting a bunch of comments saying, 'have you seen these??' when I can easily find them posted at the biggest fansites. Thanks for the help, but it is a bit wearisome, as though you guys don't think I can find photos every site has put up myself.

The ever-faithful London Taxi Tour have eight more photos from the 24th and 25th of October at Lacock Abbey, where you can see the town setting up for filming there. No, there is no footage of the actors (that we know of), but it's still a lot of close-ups to Slughorn's home during the day.

( Loads more from Lacock Abbey. )

I have a feeling we're going to get a lot more tomorrow.

Dudes, I've been refreshing TLC for hours now so we could get better pictures, and finally we get something. There's a great new report at the site, including the fact that Michael Gambon's hand has a green cast (so it can be digitally altered as black and deadened like it is in the book), and that some fans who stayed around late enough got to see an entire scene with Michael and Dan Radcliffe being filmed.

We got a very blurry shot of Michael Gambon's double in costume (he has a coat over the robes because it was cold), but you get the idea!

( First shot of Dumbledore... kind of. )

We've got a lot of set shots from tonight's and yesterday's setting up from Lacock Abbey. Although Dan and Michael eventually showed up, I haven't seen a single picture up of them, which is a shame, but the pair will be back tomorrow, so here's hoping. TLC and the Wiltshire Times have a great number of photos up, though it's all of them setting up the town, so you see shots of houses and streets and things of that nature. Still, it gives you an idea of what it all looks like.


More than two dozen shots under the cut.

( Lacock Abbey revisited. )

Don't forget that they'll be there tomorrow, too, so try to get there if you can!

TLC just received a set report from Lacock Abbey, where they stated that filming won't start until tomorrow, but someone did take a photo of a lit house (probably the one we've gotten photos from this past month), that will be used in HBP, in the dead of night. You can see that under the cut.

( Slughorn's (?) house in HBP. )

They said a lot of kids showed up today but were disappointed by the lack of action, oh well. They will all be there tomorrow, so please check it out if you can!

Thanks, once again, to London Taxi Tour for two more photos of the construction of Slughorn's house, which will be used in HBP. You can tell, given that these were taken yesterday, that construction is pretty much done, especially since they start shooting scenes there tomorrow. Guys, filming there starts tomorrow, Wednesday, October 24th, from 5pm to 5am GMT, and continues in the same fashion for the rest of the week, so you have all the details about locations and times! Head on over if you can (and take loads of photos)! You might even meet Dan (and Ralph Fiennes and Michael Gambon, among others), so if that's not reason enough, I don't know what is.

( Slughorn's cottage. )

Thanks to TLC for a couple of shots of the street in Lacock Abbey where filming for HBP will take place later this week. You can sort of see the white-painted houses that will be used in the film (Slughorn's place, I guess), when Harry and Dumbledore go to see him. If any of you guys are in or around Locock Abbey, get photos from later this week and please send them in (watermarked, of course)!

( Two shots from Lacock Abbey. )

Again, courtesy of London Taxi Tour, we've got four more pictures of Slughorn's house being built, and this time the site states, "The village of Professor Slughorn's home comes alive, ready for Professor Dumbledore and Harry Potter to visit." There's no argument that this is Slughorn's home, then, and that that particular scene will be kept.

( Four new pictures under the cut. )

By the way, word has it that filming at Locock Abbey starts on October 24th, and even goes into detail about what streets and exactly what times scenes will be shot. Guys, if any of you or anyone you know lives around the area (in Wiltshire, England), and can get photos, please feel free to send them over (but please remember to watermark them, either with your lj/website or, if you want, the comm here - or both, of course)! Email me with them!

Thanks once again to London Taxi Tour for exterior shots for what they're still calling Slughorn's home (in all honesty, the house looks like Snape's in Spinner's End, but there you have it). One is a shot of a road where filming has or will take place, and the other is another outside shot of the house.

( Two more shots of Slughorn's place. )

I've got no problem with the LTT site posting new teasers like these every few days, do you? ;)


Upon further inspection of the road photo, I noticed the green signs on the post do say 'WB LOC'. So, in actuality, that's probably a road shot of Lacock Abbey, and, well, they might start shooting those four night sequences pretty soon (this week, in fact). :)

I'm actually shaking with excitement here! These, according to London Taxi Tour, are exterior shots of Slughorn's home (I'm guessing the house he was staying at in the beginning of the book when Harry and Dumbledore find him). I know it's not much, but yay!

Your very first photos from 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'.

( First shots of Slughorn's home. )