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Pupils board the Hogwart's Express
IT'S a return trip to the West Highlands for the making of the latest Harry Potter movie.
And it was all aboard Hogwart's Express at the weekend for 100 senior pupils from Lochaber High School in Fort William.
They were train passengers, in the roles of "apprentice witches and warlocks", for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
The adolescent extras are mainly 17-year-olds, emphasising the fact that the hero, Harry, has grown up over the years.
On Saturday and Sunday mornings, the excited youngsters boarded Hogwart's Express at Spean Bridge station.
But the windows of the blood-red coloured carriages, pulled by the Hogwart's Castle steam engine, had had a makeover to simulate a covering of morning dew, which was more than matched by the early misty and wet conditions.
So the teenagers couldn't wave out from the train as it pulled away from the platform.
Hogwart's was constantly in the sights of a helicopter-borne camera crew as it headed along the West Highland Line to bleak Rannoch Moor.
Meanwhile, filming for the Warner Brothers epic has commenced once more in Glencoe, Glenfinnan and Glenspean to ensure continuity with the previous five titles.
Glencoe, for example, provided the backdrop for Hagrid's Hut, the Sundial Garden and the Bridge to Nowhere, for the Prisoner of Azkaban.
And the Glenfinnan railway viaduct is now more familiarly known to hundreds of thousands of tourists as the "Harry Potter Bridge".
In the previous Harry Potter screenplays, Hogwart's Express crossed the viaduct in clouds of steam while, in one of the films, Harry's Ford Anglia soared over it.
It was close to Glenfinnan, too, that Hagrid's Kingdom was created on an islet in the middle of Loch Eilt.
Insiders say that the Harry Potter links with Lochaber became so strong over the previous five movies that the established Highland settings simply have to make a reappearance in Half-Blood Prince to ensure recognition continuity in the storylines.
For the first time, however, the cameras have been rolling at Loch Arkaig, in "Commando Country", bordered by Achnacarry and Glenspean.
An airborne film unit, and cameramen aboard a fish farm boat have been shooting computer-enhanced sequences, above and on the loch, the tranquillity of whose inland waters once echoed to the sound of tracer bullets when the Commandos trained there during World War II.
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