Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows News

As any loyal follower knows, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be split into two movies.

This, of course, leaves the questions of: how? at what point in the story?

MTV spoke to Joshua Herdman, who plays Slytherin in the film, and he relayed the following mini-spoiler about the current plan for the final Harry Potter movies:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will concludes immediately after Harry, Ron and Hermione are captured by the Snatchers. Part two will then open as the trio and their captors arrive at Malfoy Manor.

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Every Harry Potter fan knows how Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows concludes.

Before J.K. Rowling penned the final three words scrawled above, however, the author closed her book series with an epilogue that picks up nearly two decades in the future.

How will this be handled on the big screen? Will older actors portray grown-up versions of Harry, Ron and Hermione? Not way, director David Yates told MTV.

"There's something extraordinary about the audience's knowledge of them when they were this high and then seeing them where they are 38," he said. "There's something really beautiful about that circle, so it has to be them. I think if after seven or eight movies, we recast them in that last scene — we all thought, 'No way, we can't do that.'"

What can they do in that case? The answer may lie in the same sort of CGI technology employed in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

If that's the direction the film takes, Daniel Radcliffe would be all for it.

"I might get to see what I look like if I was 5-foot-8, which will be a thrill for me!" he joked. 

For years, Bill Nighy has joked that he's the only British actor to have never appeared in a Harry Potter movie.

That's about to change, however.

In a recent interview with Great Britain's The Independent, Nighy says he's landed a role in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

"I don't think I'm allowed to say it but I'm going to be in the next Harry Potter film," he told the newspaper. "I won't say which character, but he's a goodie. I just got the gig."

Rumors around the Internet state that Nighy will play Rufus Scrimgeour, a veteran Auror in the Ministry of Magic. The character spends most of his time fighting Dark Wizards.

The first half of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is scheduled for release on November 19, 2010; while the second half will open in theaters on July 15, 2011.