NEW casting news for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!!!

by Wendy on February 18th, 2008

Boy, do I have a LOT of exciting Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince news for you today! Let’s get right to it.

First, Dave Legeno has been cast as Fenrir Greyback:

According to Lupin, “Fenrir Greyback is, perhaps, the most savage werewolf alive today. He regards it as his mission in life to bite and to contaminate as many people as possible; he wants to create enough werewolves to overcome the wizards.” Greyback believes that “werewolves deserve blood” and preaches to fellow werewolves that they should revenge themselves upon the wizarding world (HBP16).

Greyback has been a Death Eater since at least 1970s, though he is in it for the access to victims, not for ideological reasons. According to Lupin, “at the full moon, [Greyback] positions himself close to victims, ensuring that he is near enough to strike. He plans it all.” His primary value to Voldemort is as a threat to hold over parents — Voldemort obtains cooperation from parents worried that he will “unleash” Greyback on their children. Indeed, it was Greyback who contaminated Lupin as a child when Lupin’s father offended him (HBP16). Greyback is a lower-level Death Deater — he does not have the Dark Mark on his arm (DH23).

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More casting news after the jump:

Ralph Ineson has been cast as Amycus Carrow:

Alecto Carrow’s brother, a squat, “lumpy” looking wizard with a lopsided leer and a wheezy giggle. When Voldemort took over the Hogwarts in the fall of 1997, Amycus was made the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, although he simply taught students to perform the Dark Arts (DH12). Before the final Battle of Hogwarts, Amycus was bound up by McGonagall and suspended in mid-air in the Ravenclaw common room.

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