Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2007
Director
Cast
- Daniel Radcliffe
- Rupert Grint
- Emma Watson
- Imelda Staunton
- Gary Oldman
- David Thewlis
- Alan Rickman
- Michael Gambon
- Robbie Coltrane
- Ralph Fiennes
- Helena Bonham-Carter
- Richard Griffiths
- Brendan Gleeson
- Maggie Smith
- Jason Isaacs
- Tom Felton
- Emma Thompson
- Warwick Davis
- Robert Hardy
visit the film locations
London: Flights: Heathrow Airport; Gatwick Airport
Oxfordshire: visit: Blenheim Palace, Woodstock (tel: 08700.602080), eight miles northwest of Oxford on the A44 Evesham Road (rail: Oxford, from London Paddington)
Scotland: visit: Glen Etive
Trivia
Blenheim Palace itself became the exterior of ‘Elsinore’ in Kenneth Branagh’s 1996 film of Hamlet, and also Sean Connery’s ‘Hallucinogen Hall’ in the big screen adaptation of The Avengers
Harry Potter location: the entrance to the Ministry of Magic: Scotland Place, London
“Trains underground! Ingenious, these muggles.” exclaims Arthur Weasley (Mark Williams), mightily impressed by the technical wizardry of the gleaming new entrance to Westminster Underground Station, as he accompanies Harry to the Ministry of Magic hearing. Most passengers emerging from the station, though, will be more overwhelmed by the sheer visual overkill of Charles Barry’s Palace of Westminster and Big Ben (actually St Stephen’s Clocktower – Ben is the bell hanging inside).
You’ll have a tougher time than Harry does getting into the Ministry of Magic. On Great Scotland Yard, running between Whitehall and Northumberland Avenue, at the junction with Scotland Place, stood the red phone box containing the visitor’s entrance. There is no phone box (come on, if King’s Cross Station can install half a shopping trolley, why has nobody turned this spot into a photo op?), and notice how a fake bridge was added to cover up the office door alongside.
On the same stretch of street, piled high with sandbags, Robbie Turner (James McAvoy) says his goodbyes to Cecilia Tallis (Keira Knightley) before going off to war in Atonement.
Once again, it’s back to King’s Cross Station, where Sirius Black (Gary Oldman) shows Harry the photograph of the original members of Order of the Phoenix.
The Hogwarts landscapes are once more the Scottish Highlands, against the dramatic mountain backdrop of Glen Etive, not far from Glencoe, with Hagrid’s hut set in nearby Clachaig Gully.
The flashback to Harry’s father’s tormenting of the young Severus Snape, was filmed in the grounds of Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, in Oxfordshire. The grand estate is home to the Duke of Marlborough, and the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill.
