“In the Prisoner of Azkaban it gets darker and more serious. “The newspaper’s tone changed over time,” says Mina. A single edition of the wizarding tabloid took them two weeks to make – and they sent more than 30 editions to print altogether. The Daily Prophet might just be “the single most labour-intensive prop ever”. Bursting with attention to detail, it is a rare opportunity to “properly view things that are only momentarily seen on screen”. Harry’s hand-drawn childhood poster is one of many prints and props on show at a new MinaLima exhibition in London, The Graphic Art of Harry Potter Films. Like Dumbledore’s Memory Vials, it is one of the ‘lesser seen’ objects from the Harry Potter films that are finally getting some limelight.” “This hung on Harry’s bedroom wall at Godric’s Hollow.
“Definitely” agrees Mina, as she points to an alphabet poster on the wall that reads: A is for Alchemy, C is for Cauldron and W is for Wizard. “We are proud parents of every prop,” says Lima. “She loves it: she has called it ‘the place where objects come to life’ – and she has even taken some of our props home with her.” “We were thrilled when JK Rowling first showed up at our studio,” says Mina. It is here – at Leavesden studios in the Warner Bros complex – that the design duo Eduardo Lima and Miraphora Mina (whose own name sounds like it could have come from the pen of Rowling) had to “think and breathe Harry Potter every day” from 20.
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