R.I.P. Half-Blood Prince. Hey kids:
spoiler alert to those who haven’t read
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Seriously, stop reading now. Everyone else: J.K. Rowling OK’ed a change to the way Professor Snape dies in Part II of
Deathly Hallows, according to a translated-from-Spanish interview with
Potter art director
Andrew Ackland-Snow. The team wanted “a more dramatic atmosphere,” and they “made a crystal house, and you can see what happens in the boat house from there… but also the school is in flames.” Whatever all of that means.
--Adam Rosenberg