Ahmadinejad turns down chance to star in Oliver Stone film Not even the power of wizardry could save the stars from a drenching at last night's European premiere of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. As the heavens opened over London's Leicester Square, the franchise's regular cast - Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson - waved to thousands of soggy fans outside the cinema. The fifth instalment in the series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix officially opens in the UK on July 12.
It will be followed on July 21 by the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final part of the boy wizard's adventures. "I am partly sad and partly relieved that I have finished," author JK Rowling admitted last night. "What I am really looking forward to now is a holiday with my children.