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Supposed New Marketing for Half-Blood Prince Comfirmed Fake

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Posted by: Sue
April 07, 2008, 04:28 PM

UPDATE: Thanks to WB who confirmed to us that indeed, supposed early marketing and a new photo of Dan Radcliffe from the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as seen on this website, is indeed fake.

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92 Comments

mollywobble

By the way, I didn’t mean anything by saying Dan looks older. Obviously at some point he will no longer look like a 15 year old. I just meant he looked like he was in his mid-twenties because he was so polished looking.

I expect that the Dan part is indeed a new photo, but that company created the “poster.”

Posted by mollywobble on April 07, 2008, 05:18 PM report to moderator
dixiekitty

Yea! He can pose however he wants as far as I’m concerned! Can’t wait for more HBP pics.

Posted by dixiekitty on April 07, 2008, 05:28 PM report to moderator
ilnevertell

Aw he looks.. fuller. Which is great! Makes him look a little older than in OotP. I wish they had posters for Ron and Hermione too though.

Posted by ilnevertell on April 07, 2008, 05:31 PM report to moderator
Redbeard

Yeah, it’s not really a movie poster, it’s just for toys and stuff like that. I’m also more interested about the castle. By the way, you can see it’s a new pic of Harry, because of his hearcut. It’s a bit different from the one he had in OOTP.

Posted by Redbeard on April 07, 2008, 05:33 PM report to moderator
Vic

Obviously a fake. The German title says “Halbblutprinz”, not “Halbblut Prinz”, in two words – I think WB would be able to spell the title correctly.

Posted by Vic on April 07, 2008, 05:36 PM report to moderator
MuggleQueen

Lol PP ^^

I think it’s kinda cool that they’re using the same pose quite a lot, because now it is a big feature of the HP features. I agree that it’s not a very exciting poster though.

That’s if it is real. Like Vic said – I’m sure WB would spell the title correctly before they released anything like this so maybe it is a fake idk.

Posted by MuggleQueen on April 07, 2008, 05:39 PM report to moderator
Jimi

His wand looks different. I think it is merely a bad manip

Posted by Jimi on April 07, 2008, 05:49 PM report to moderator
Karrelien

It seems to me they just took the picture from OotP and “aged” it a little bit.. I don’t think it is a real one..

Posted by Karrelien on April 07, 2008, 06:06 PM report to moderator
Ashley

Heh, I love masterofmystery’s comment (on the LJ community) that you can always tell which movie a picture is from by simply looking at Dan’s hair. LOL. It’s so true.

I do kind of agree with Amy S that the same old pose is becoming rather yawn-worthy. I do wish they’d try to shake things up a bit. Still, at this point, I’m just happy to have a picture, ANY picture, from HBP.

Now, bring on the trailer and the hi-res images! Please please please!

Posted by Ashley on April 07, 2008, 06:14 PM report to moderator
Elyzie

Yeah, his wand looks different there. I’m not usually one to make negative comments, but that Photoshop job made my eyes kind of hurt. ;p

I’ll take some of the yarn though, it’s pretty!

Posted by Elyzie on April 07, 2008, 06:15 PM report to moderator
sparkling

Actually vic in some languages it is just one word. In my native language swedish for example it’s “Halvblodsprinsen”. One word, just like that.

Posted by sparkling on April 07, 2008, 06:20 PM report to moderator
Vic

German is my native language, sparkling – it IS one word in german, that’s what’s my point. The cardboard stand spells it in two words (“Halbblut Prinz”) and why should WB do that? They’d be checking if the title were correct before releasing any merchandising ;)

Posted by Vic on April 07, 2008, 06:27 PM report to moderator
sparkling

Okay I get it now. I thought you were talking about the title on the poster

Posted by sparkling on April 07, 2008, 06:32 PM report to moderator
izzytamco

Am I the only knitting dork who wants to know what the connection is between HP and Opal Yarn?

Posted by izzytamco on April 07, 2008, 06:33 PM report to moderator
Saria

I’m not saying one way or the other if the picture is fake, but I do think it’s interesting (not in a snotty way, but in an observational way) that people are so QUICK to assume something is fake.

What I really find intriguing is that they usually base their belief on whether or not they personally LIKE the picture, or the scene, or whatever. I.e., “I don’t like the picture, so it’s a fake.” Remember a while back when the infamous “leaked scene” featuring an attack on the Burrow surfaced? Lots of people insisted, very loudly, that it HAD to be fake, and the vast majority of them seemed to be convinced it was fake because, basically, THEY JUST DIDN’T LIKE IT. Again, “I don’t like that scene, so it’s a fake.”

Once again, I’m not saying one way or the other whether this picture, or the “leaked scene”, is fake (I wouldn’t be surprised either way). I’m just observing that we’re awfully quick to assume that “I don’t like it” automatically equals “fake”.

So, um, the picture itself. It’s… okay. Kind of boring. Dan’s hair does match the other pics we’ve seen from HBP.

Posted by Saria on April 07, 2008, 06:34 PM report to moderator
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