Harry Potter TV Series Secrecy Reportedly Involves Codenames, Phone Bans and Disappearing Messages — as Prince William and Kate Visit Hogwarts Express

Warner Bros. is keeping Harry Potter TV bid filming nether wraps by utilizing accumulation codenames and banning mobile phones connected set.

A study published by The Sun stated that the HBO show, which began shooting its archetypal play this summer, was primitively referred to arsenic "Dark Train," earlier changing to "Brown Cat."

Messages sent to formed and unit are acceptable to vanish aft being viewed once, successful bid to forestall further sharing of information. On set, mobile phones are banned entirely.

However, the secrecy surrounding the show's accumulation has not stopped the Daily Mail from reporting connected a royal sojourn to the show's latest filming determination — successful Windsor Great Park, adjacent to the location of William and Kate, the Prince and Princess of Wales.

Last week, the royals visited the set, accompanied by their 3 children: Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis. Together, the household met the show's cast, including caller Harry Potter histrion Dominic McLaughlin, and watched an evening sprout involving the Harry Potter series' celebrated Hogwarts Express bid riding on a specially constructed track.

"There was lone 1 nighttime of filming determination truthful it truly was a magical ticket," a Daily Mail root said. "And arsenic for Louis, helium got the accidental to thrust connected the bid with the driver. He seemed to perfectly emotion it. It's the imagination for astir children to measurement aboard the Hogwarts Express."

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Disgraced royal Prince Andrew besides reportedly visited the acceptable past week with his grandchildren, abstracted to the different royals.

In different accumulation news, unit precocious sent a memo to formed members informing them that the Windsor Great Park determination was "prone to ticks and horseflies," which tin provoke fevers and fatigue. If bitten, the proposal was to sojourn the on-set medic.

Earlier this summer, Windsor Great Park was utilized arsenic a filming determination by Marvel, with top-secret scenes changeable for adjacent year's Avengers: Doomsday (including the perchance spoiler-filled instrumentality of an aged Avengers star).

HBO's Harry Potter TV bid is acceptable to debut successful 2027, with a play devoted to each of the 7 books. The accumulation volition see galore scenes and characters near retired of the erstwhile movies, including Peeves the Poltergeist.

Much of the show's filming has taken spot down closed doors, with accumulation based astatine Leavesden Studios, adjacent London, wherever a impermanent schoolhouse has been constructed to cater for up to 600 pupils astatine highest periods of filming. But immoderate nationalist filming has besides been spotted, specified arsenic scenes acceptable astatine London Zoo.

Earlier today, Harry Potter writer JK Rowling continued her nationalist spat with Emma Watson, who played Hermione successful the films, successful effect to comments made by the histrion past week.

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