Today’s Guardian has an excellent

Today’s Guardian has an excellent article about Zoe Wanamaker, playing Madame Hooch.

She betrayed no nerves about the new Harry Potter film in which she will play Madam Hooch. Hooch has ‘short grey hair and yellow eyes like a hawk’ and can tell Harry and his chums how to mount their broomsticks and get a grip correctly. Hooch is a bit of a school marm, barking at young wizards, silver whistle in hand. Zoë’s Madam Hooch will be all bird, ‘definitely an eagle’. She looks forward to the flying lessons (they have not shot the flying yet because the actress playing Hermione Grainger fell ill). The action, Zoë revealed, will take place in a ‘quasi turn-of-the-century boarding school full of gowns and cloaks and hats.’

I wonder how old this article is. Hermione was in the shots for the first flying lesson but perhaps she’s talking about the Quidditch game where Hermione set’s Snape on fire.