Teenage girls flock to Potter film audition

0 Comments | AFP, January, 2006

LONDON (AFP) — Thousands of hopeful teenage girls queued in the cold London air for hours at the weekend, some overnight, for a chance to star in the next Harry Potter movie.

The excited teenagers, aged between 13 and 16, stood patiently, some with their parents, outside Westminster Central Hall in London on Saturday in a queue stretching over several streets.

They were responding to a search by Warner Brothers for a young actress to play the role of Luna Lovegood in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", the fifth book in the massively popular series by author J.K Rowling that is due to start filming next month.

"I check the Harry Potter website every day and saw the auditions advertised on there," said Kim Allen, who was first in the queue after...

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