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ArtsCzech Harry Potter happy to leave Hogwarts behind
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
Current AffairsSeventh and final Harry Potter launched in Czech
After months of anticipation, and several unauthorized versions finding
their way onto the internet, the Czech translation of the seventh and
final
Harry Potter book has been released. On Wednesday night, hundreds queued
for a copy of Harry Potter a Relikvie Smrti – the Czech version of Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The official launch was held at
Kanzelsberger bookshop, and organized by Klára Honzíková, to whom I
spoke earlier today. She said she was happy with attendance at the launch: More
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down, over 200 people attend the biggest nude photo shoot ever undertaken
in the Czech Republic. And, could reading your girlfriend's SMS messages
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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
Weasley as well as Hogwarts professors like the oily Severus Snape)
counted down the final minutes before they got their hands on their copy
of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. More
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