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Mr. Vojtěch Kotek can be proud to say that he is a perfectly normal, young
Czech actor, thank you very much. But on one particular day, almost every
year for the last ten of his twenty-three years, he becomes an eminently
well-known boy wizard by the name of Harry Potter (read: ‘Hari Potr’).
Since the age of 12, Vojta has lent his voice to the ever-maturing
wunderkind in the dubbed version of each of the eight Harry Potter films.
And now – his voice an octave under Daniel Radcliffe’s – as the most
famous fantasy series comes to an end, so ends Vojta Kotek’s career… More
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Current AffairsCzech fans gather for final Potter instalment
Any other day bookstores would long have been closed by 1 am in Prague, but
not last Saturday, July 21st, when the final instalment J.K. Rowling's
Harry Potter series went on sale. Hundreds of readers many of them dressed
as their favourite characters (including wizards Hermione Granger and Ron
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Current AffairsHarry Potter and the Pirate Czech Translation
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the 6th instalment of JK Rowling's
hugely successful series, has now been out for almost three weeks, and in
Prague, as elsewhere, fans lined up in droves to get their hands on a
copy. But, once again, Czech fans were divided over those able to read the
English original and those who would have to wait for the official Czech
translation. Jan Velinger reports on how some fans have coped.
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