First reports & spoilers from Deathly Hallows: Part I test screening released
 

The test screening for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I took place earlier today in Chicago, Illinois. One fan, Gaby, who was lucky enough to view it, updated her Twitter with some information about the film. Note that the test screening showed an unfinished version of Deathly Hallows, so green-screen was viewable in some scenes.

For those who don't want to be spoiled, all reports about the test screening will be hidden under a spoiler cut.



UPDATE: A spoiler-free review was released by Kyle, and can be read below.

If anyone else was lucky enough to view the screening, please feel free to send reports in!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be out November 19, 2010 and July 15, 2011.

Awesome. What do you guys mean by the Music wasn't real either-like was it not there, as in Background music or there was no feeling and emotion to it that made your heart cry or want to cheer on the trio?

Update: Killed me. It seems like it is right down to the book, besides minor changes- such as no kiss before the wedding, George not Ron, the dancing with Harry and Hermione- wouldn't mind seeing Dan's dancing "Skills" again. But everything else seems like the producers and Yates read the book and tried to incorparate actual book scenes. Everytime something seemed right I'd scream and raised my hands. I even ran around my house, saying- "Best one Yet"

omg, that sounds so cool, poor dobby and love the harry/hermione. :)

It means the soundtrack wasn't put into the movie yet, so the just had filler stuff.

Oh,yeah.. I read this already..
It looks cool..

If you remember Alexandre Desplat is still working on the soundtrack / score for 'Deathly Hallows: Part I'. He won't be finished til' like the end of September. So that's why.

I can't wait to see the movie.

I'm pretty sure I'll cry like a baby too when it comes to Dobby's death.

More Voldy than ever? Awesome! :D

I can just imagine how devastated Hermoine will be after Harry/Ron fight. Good for Harry for cheering her up.

Helena Bonham Carter never looks like she's acting. What ever character she plays, she becomes that character. A very talented actress indeed.

Can't wait for November! :D

Fantastic!!!
This seems brilliant!
But as much as I would have ABSOLUTELY LOVED to see this, I am a hugeee music/CGI/general post editing fan, so I'm not so sad anymore. But still glad to get a review!!!

I didn't think it was possible to get any more excited for this movie, but these spoilers just increased my excitement. Eeeeeeee! :drool:

Is it November yet? :whistle:

Haha, I ended up reading the report even though I told myself not to read any more spoilers...

Well, it sounds like something worth the wait for November. :)

It sounds genius!
I'm so excited, although I'm dreading Dobby's death and Harry and Ron's fight.
But I'm now excited to see Harry and Hermione dancing :)

That's great, although there was really only one spoiler in it for me, a rather cute one for H/Hr. And mind you, not the locket scene! The one listed before that. :xd:

Oh I'm so tempted to look! Someone tell me, what should I do?!!!! I'm dying here! :faint:

AHHHHHHHH WORDS CANNOT EXPLAIN!!!! I'm getting tingly just thinking about it. What a lucky person!

Just look away, grab your hair and start running around, screaming- that should get your mind off things...Not too much was new, but we now know why Hermiona and Harry were filmed dancing- nothing given away with that :) :P

OMG! WHAT! That person is so freaking lucky! But I love them, for giving me spoilers.. Lol, at this rate I'll know the whole movie back to back before SEEING it! I feel that I will most likely have to burn my eyes out after seeing the locket.. And Dobby dieing? I probably wont actually watch that seen till the movie has been out for twenty years.. Or else I'll be so glued to the screen I can't look away, which ever is very possible. I'm sure Bellatrix will be amazing! Well, as in.. You know... Ron and Harry's fight will kill me, I will be sobbing hysterically and yelling at the scream, then kicked out of the movie theater :imao: But it will totally be worth it!!!

Merlin's Beard! I'm so freakin' excited....... :woot:

In theory, it's cute that Harry tries to cheer up Hermione. But by dancing? And when she was completely inconsolable in the books? SIGH. Ron/Hermione. Let's accept it, Kloves...and move on.

I'm looking forward to seeing the torture scene, as odd as that might sound...as well as Ron's moment with the locket - minus the Harry/Hermione thing. I can't wait to see Rupert/Ron in these last two films. And of course, the Ron/Hermione kiss.

Shannon :hello:

Helena B-C can act completely deranged...i love it! she is a brilliant actress.

More reports, more reports, please!

Why couldn't I have been there! :(

AHHHH! :woot: SO EXCITED! I almost cried when I read how the scene with the locket is...it will be disturbing indeed (I thought it was disturbing in the book, I can't imagine how it will look like on screen). And so will be the Hermione getting tortured scene. :( I just hope that they show Ron yelling for her and almost crying after hearing her scream in the basement with Harry. I've always wanted to see that scene! I will be crying soooo much during Part 1! Especially when Ron leaves...and the horcrux scene...and the Ron/Harry fight...and Hermione being tortured...and Dobby dieing...and all of the other deaths! :( I wish I was one of the lucky people that got to see it! When I go into the theater to see the movie in November, I probably won't be able to stop talking about it! XD I can't wait for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 and 2!

How lucky are some people!
Can't wait for it!

so cool! :xd: I cannot wait! :D

im like dying i dont know what to do
i read hbp test screening and it killed everything, what if i just give it a glance?

oh my, all. i can barely breathe right now. its crazy!! i'm sooo excited right now! i can't wait until november! i cringed at the explanation of Hermione getting tortured but i have to say i'm curious and i was really hoping to see it in the first film, yay us!! i think just hearing about Malfoy manor i know i'm gonna cry during all of that scene or sequence of scenes. it's going to be emotional.

The movie sounds awesome, but I don't see how the similarity to LotR with the locket is anything to get mad about. Since when is that only Tolken's idea that only he can use. Not too mention it's not very similar in the first place.

I know I'll cry when Dobby dies too! Hermione and Harry dancing wasn't in the book, but I think it's going to be a very sweet scene.

Would love to know how they tied up some of the loose ends... how do they explain Bill & Fleur's meeting? How does Harry get the mirror? How do they find out about the other horcruxes?
Can't wait for November!

:harry3: OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I WAS SOOOOOO WAITING 4 THE PASSIONATE KISS BETWEEN HARRY AND GINY AT HIS BIRTHDAY!!! UGHHH DAMN!

I am sure we will get something like that at some point. Or...maybe they replaced that with the horcrux versions of Harry & Hermione making out in front of Ron?

Cool..!!

Hi this is my first post and it is all very exciting!
I have a question for someone who was lucky enough to see the test screening at Chicago here goes:
When Ron does return, is it dramatic and what is Hermione's reaction?
If someone answers this it would be greatly appreciated :)

thanks!!!! lol hmm i didn't think about that bfore........ :D :D :D that would be really cool!!!!!

As much as this has only made me more and more excited, I sort of wish I hadn't read ALL of it. Some of them yes, but I think the entire torture scene would have been more impressive without knowing...However...
I am the kind of person who, when I know a hand is going to grab Harry's arm from under water (but not when you think its going too)...I go crazy with anticipation. The anticipation actually makes it harder....
We shall see. =)

Do we still not know if Lupin's fight with Harry at Grimmauld Place is in the movie?!?!?!?! Even if the rest of the movie is great, I will be fuming if this is not in there. I've always been upset at how much they've ignored Lupin in the movies, minus POA :(

I totally agree with you. While Lupin had some pretty decent development in POA, he was definitely put on the back burner since. If Lupin is under developed in this film, I will be having Sirius flashbacks :(

I know! Not only a waste of a wonderful character, but also a waste of an unbelievably brilliant and talented actor in David Thewlis.

Whoa, that's one lucky person! =O

I'm really looking forward to the film. I'm looking forward to the Seven Potters, the wedding and the Hermione/Harry dance. I don't ship them, of course XD. But they're just good friends. It's so nice of Harry to cheer her up.

Overall I'm extremely excited <3.

Can't Wait for Deathly Hallows part 1! *tehee*
 

Gosh! i'm so jealous! it's so lucky for those lucky randomly picked peeps..this makes me more eager to watch it..i believe it will be a million times better than twilight!! I heard the 7 potters in the beginning is going to be super hilarious! =)

Omg i hope Godric's Hollow isn't too rushed... :( It's one of the best scenes in the book!

But sounds amazing, can't wait anymore! :) Those people are lucky to have seen it, but then again, if i got to decide whether i'd like to see the film now or wait until November, i'd choose not to watch it yet.
As difficult as it is to wait three more months, we'll probably miss these moments once both of the films have been released. The same thing happened with the books, we were dying to read them, but once we finished we wanted to go back to the moment when we were still living in the torturing anxiousness.

WOW! I'm so jealous :(

The torture scene should be amazing, and the Horcrux scene will be horrible to watch.

Why does Dobby have to die? :(
More Voldie!!! :D

I love Helena Bonham Carter! She's such an amazing actress <3 :loved:

THIS IS NOT A JOKE!! Helana Bonham Carter is my great, great, great, great uncles granddaughter. I know it is VERY distant but she is their I don't know if that makes her a distant Aunty or Cousin. I know there will be the people that don't believe me but I promise :)

I wish they could do a screening like this is England. I would drop anything to go to it!
I hope that the Ron/Hermione kiss is better than the Harry/Hermione one! I'll be very disappointed if it's not.

Oh guys YOU ARE INDEED LUCKY!!!! Oh well,,,, 3 months to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh wow. I hope I don't bawl when Dobby dies!

Hi! Please if someone has seen the movie, is it true that Ron and Hermione don't dance in the wedding scene?

Those people are just very LUCKY!

I have read some other reviews about the screening, and I was like, "WHY DIDN'T THEY DID IT HERE IN LONDON??"

It was very fascinating! Even though there's not much of the effects and sounds yet, I can already imagine everything and it really freaks me out!

CAN'T REALLY WAIT FOR NOVEMBER. :woot:

You guys are so lucky..!!!I envy you guys so much :(

These spoilers are making me salivate with excitement! If it's this incredible as an unfinished film, imagine how it will be once the musical score is added, and the special FX!

Ooh! That's so exciting! Great update! Wish i was there! Ah! November needs to come quickly!

so the spoiler alert from imbd are not true??? i mean u delete that

Couldnt have said this whole thing, particularly in bold better myself Shannon!! R/HR FOREVER!! :):r/hr:

Well, I think that will depend on your definition of "better". Harry/Hermione's kiss is supposedly an extremely intense make-out session, following all of the really horrible things they say to Ron. It's apparently going to be very heated, very sexual, and very uncomfortable to watch.

Whereas the Ron/Hermione kiss will probably be a very quiet, sweet and subdued moment. So Harry/Hermione's will be the kind of unrealistic, super-hot mega-fantasy that never happens, whereas Ron/Hermione's will be real.

Could someone please tell me is the scene with harry and lupin fighting in grimmauld place included?please!!!!

Ugh I'm already dreading the Harry/Hermione Horcrux kiss...she said it looks as if they are both nude? Why is that necessary. We already get Ron is jealous, I think that one I'll have to make a bathroom run on.

I have read from people who saw the screening that that scene was omitted and they basically dont spend much time on Tonks' pregancy at all they kind of brush it aside.

Does anyone know how is Hermione's reaction when Ron comes back?
And any scene between them in the film?

I have all the HP books in hardcover, and have read them quite a few times.
I enjoyed the in depth report of the above DH I sceening.
I am curious as to why David Yates and the producer David Heyman and WB decided to
have a test screening. Chicago is a good, middle of the country to get a variety of viewpoints. I hope they are able to utlilize the audiences comments to improve or
tweak the film where needed. Great report!

It says in the piece- they dance at the wedding...

This is absolutely going to be the longest 3 month wait of my life. (and that includes the last trimester of each of my 4 pregnancies lol~other moms out there will know what I mean) I read the book aloud to my husband, and I cried so hard when Dobby died I could barely get the words out. I can't imagine what it will be like seeing it on screen. From all the reports I have read, the only real disappointment I have is that they seem to have cut the Regulus Black story out, and that was such an integral part of showing Kreacher as more than a house elf who has to obey Harry, instead of wanting to obey Harry. I am not surprised though, the house elf situation was cut from all the other movies as well.

I don't want to read this! Surprise!!!

@ Ron and Hermione
I asked someone on twitter and they told me hermiones reaction to ron coming back :)
here it is :)
*spoiler*( sort of )
When Ron came back, Hermione was first surprised and then angry at him for leaving. Harry had to hold her back. It was a bit funny. Ron explains what made him come back, how he heard Hermione's voice whisper his name and ball of light went through his heart. Hermione softens a little, but still acts angry with him.

From what I've read, they've always had the test screenings for the HP movies in Chicago.

Cool!!!

thank you so much! I can't wait to see this scene!

Wow, I so can't wait to see this film!!!!
apparently not a lot of the talented Alan Rickman/Snape in this one. :cry: oh well I get to see Lucius again and thats always a plus.

Wow! I'm so excited, especially for the Bellatrix part and the Dobby dying part.

Can't wait for the movie :)

So hermione dance in the wedding with Krum and Ron, and next with Harry. Haha Emma is gonna be a professional dancer!

Awsome!

Sorry to disappoint, but I have several sources confirming that
*SPOILER*
Ron and Hermione do not dance at the wedding however Hermione does dance with Krum as Ron watches furiously!
I personally would have loved to see Ron and Hermione dancing but I'd love to see Ron's reaction with Krum dancing with Hermione.

But someone told me in this post that Hermione and Ron dance in the movie...Well if they don't dance it would be very disappointed because we have see Ron jealous in the 4 film. And again... I don't know Iwant some romantic scenes between ron and Hermione^^

Sounds great, really exciting!

Wow the other review on that site tells you practically the entire film :|

:harry3::harry3::harry3::hermy::albus3:wow!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't wait for the Deathly Hallows! Would have been awesome to be there at that screening! Not long now though... :) :D

so FREAKIN' EXCITED!!!! Accio November 19th!!!!

This seems brilliant!

Hahaha. I so want it to come out asap!! We still have like 3 months to go! :( :'(
GReat reviews though!! :) I really hope they put in the Ginny/Harry kiss!!

lovin' life
 

Trust me, I understand how you feel! I have wanted then to get romantic since I read the first book!
This was an answer from someone who saw the movie in Chicago :)

"Oh yeah the Krum scene is PERFECT. Ron and Hermione are circling the punch bowl and Ron is pretending not to look at her. Krum comes up to Hermione and takes her out to dance. Ron is furiously watching them. As soon as the dance stops, one of Fleur's friends walks by and his eyes go from Hermione's straight to this other girl and he walks away and ditches Hermione."

I preferred it in the book :(