Is Warner Brothers underpaying child actors for their work on Harry Potter?

Haley Jo Osment (of The Sixth Sense) talks Potter: “I never wanted to do Harry Potter. I thought it should have stayed as a book. There are some books that should be made into movies and some that shouldn’t.” Did he think that before they picked Chris Columbus to direct?

Dark Horizons also reports that the venerable John Cleese will be taking on the part of Nick the Nearly-Headless Ghost.

Ready the tomatoes: Tom Felton of Anna and the King will be playing Harry’s nemesis, Draco Malfoy (at least according to Dark Horizons.)

Just outside the Potter filming area, an unfortunate Muggle disturbance breaks out.

More Harry shooting pics. Today we have images of Hogwarts students disembarking from the train. Basically looks like your average grade-school graduation ceremony, but you can see the House crests on the students’ lapels.

A Harry Potter set report, including Hedwig’s training.

Madame Hooch (the Quidditch teacher) has been cast. British Actress Zoe Wannamaker (pictured right) is to play the part, her agent having confirmed that she had joined the cast last week for filming at Alnwick Castle.

A survey in the UK to find the nations favourite words has produced a couple of surprises. Voted 2nd in the survey was ‘Quidditch’ and joint 8th was ‘Muggle’.

More Potter pics, including the inside of Hogwarts!