They were just kind of simultaneous - the film ending and the sets being destroyed. I was struck the first time I saw the Great Hall become a big pile of burning rubble and getting scattered around. It's really quite shocking for the fans.

Despite premiering at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival the film was initially unable to find a distributor. It was also critically well-received scoring mainly positive reviews from critics. On 13 February 2013 The Hollywood Reporter's Live Feed announced that Grint would star in a television show on CBS called "Super Clyde.

From 2001 to 2011 he starred in all eight Harry Potter films alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson. Beginning in 2002 Grint began to work outside of the Harry Potter franchise taking on a co-leading role in Thunderpants. Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint (born 24 August 1988) is an English actor who rose to prominence playing Ron Weasley one of the three main characters in the Harry Potter film series.