In the latest "Harry Potter" film, the special effects wizards faced a new challenge -- creating Buckbeak, the hippogriff. It was almost impossible to get one detail exactly right. But without it ...

‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” is full of magical effects, but none is more spectacular – or adorable – than Buckbeak, the animated half-horse, half-eagle creatu… ...

He said: “The Forbidden Forest appears in every one of the Harry Potter books and films and each time we did it, it was a challenge. We would vary the look — in other words as you go deeper ...