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Draco and his dad Jason Isaacs didn't want to play Draco Malfoy's dad, Lucius -- instead he auditioned for the role of Gilderoy Lockhart. Perhaps that helped him get the role. Asked to read Lucius Malfoy's lines instead, he was irritated, so read them "through gritted teeth and deeply bitter," Isaacs says with a laugh in the special.

He doesn't say if Harris ever figured out that Fawkes was not an actual living, breathing bird, but just an elaborate puppet. "So the prop people kept moving it and responding," director Chris Columbus recalls with a laugh, as clips are shown of Harris marveling over the responsive creature.

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The young actor playing David was 10-year-old Daniel Radcliffe in his acting debut.  When Harry met David Chris Columbus, who directed the first two Potter films, couldn't find anyone to play Harry Potter until he watched a BBC miniseries of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield.

SHANGHAI, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The cost of raising a child in China stands at nearly seven times its per capita GDP, far more than in the United States and Japan, highlighting the challenges facing Chinese policymakers as they try to tackle rapidly declining birth rates, new research showed.

Experts warn China's ageing population will put huge pressure on its health and social security system, while a dwindling workforce could also severely limit growth for the world's second largest economy in the coming decades.

On Weibo, another user writing under the name Lawyer Zhang, said that action needed to be taken to address the disproportionate burden faced by women, wapak middle school who are expected to give birth and raise children as part of their natural "motherhood".

Duggan had some good moments during the previous three seasons for the Horned Frogs (6-0, 3-0 Big 12), but nothing quite like this.

Through six games, he has completed 69.5 percent of his passes for 1,591 yards with a 16-to-1 touchdown-to-interception ratio.

Hundreds of lit candles hang magically in the air. Fire alarm at Hogwarts There's a beautiful scene in 2005's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire where the other magical schools arrive to compete in the Triwizard Tournament held at Hogwarts. But in the special, Radcliffe reveals those were real candles -- or at least some were -- and they began burning through their ropes and falling.

Although new policies allow families to have as many as three children, China's birth rate dropped to 7.52 births per 1,000 people in 2021, the lowest since the National Bureau of Statistics began recording the data in 1949.

Beijing-based YuWa Population Research Institute said in a report published on Tuesday that the average cost of raising a child to the age of 18 in China in 2019 stood at 485,000 yuan ($76,629) for a first child, 6.9 times China's per capita GDP that year.

In 2002's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which featured Richard Harris playing Dumbledore, we meet Dumbledore's pet phoenix, Fawkes. An elaborate prop bird was created for language tutoring near me Fawkes, but Harris reportedly thought it was a real bird. Order of the not-so-fake phoenix This last tidbit sounds like an urban legend, but the actors and crew claim it's true.

Hermione had a crush on Draco Actor Emma Watson, who played Hermione, admits in the special she had a crush on Tom Felton, who played the Potter gang's nemesis, Draco Malfoy. She "just fell in love with him" when he was asked to draw God in an on-set tutoring class, and Felton drew a girl wearing a backward cap on a skateboard. 

Child rearing costs are even higher in China's major cities, reaching more than 1 million yuan in Shanghai and 969,000 yuan in Beijing.

Birth rates in the two cities are even lower than the national average.

China would need to spend at least 5% of its annual GDP to create incentives for couples to have more children, including education subsidies, preferential mortgage rates, tax breaks, equal paternity and maternity leave, as well as the construction of more childcare centres, it added.

The gang's back together in a new reunion special, Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts, streaming now on HBO Max. It's a family-friendly trip down memory lane and you don't even have to be a huge Potterhead to enjoy it. And even the biggest fans likely will learn some new facts about the blockbuster saga. Those adorable kids who grew up making the Harry Potter movies are all grown up, and Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) is even a dad.

It's back to the grind for the Wildcats. The good news is they have a quarterback capable of matching Duggan bullet for bullet if this becomes a shootout.

Nebraska transfer Adrian Martinez accounted for 323 total yards at Iowa State, including an 81-yard touchdown pass to Phillip Brooks two minutes into the game.