This weekend saw a highly secretive operation on the shores of Loch Etive. The film crew – along with some of the Harry Potter series’ best known young actors, Daniel Radcliife (Harry) and Emma Watson (Hermione), were at the loch shooting a scene said to capitalise on the unique tidal flows of Loch Etive, with the sea kayakers challenge of the Falls of Lora.

The film is of the last of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter novels, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. This is being made as two films, with Part 1 to be released in November 2010 and the final part in the year after in 2011.

As well as being faithful to British actors in her control over the filming of her novels, JK Rowling has continually drawn attention to Scotland in the landscapes used as backgrounds to scenes in several of the films. Significantly these have all been west coast locations, several in Argyll.

The Hogwarts Express took to the West Highland Line from Fort William to Mallaig for the scene with the flying car, shot on the long, curving Glenfinnan viaduct. Quidditch was played in the skies above Glencoe, with Hagrid’s Hut built there for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Now God knows what will be seen on Loch Etive.

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