Multi-awarded actress Maggie Smith was halfway through her cancer treatment when she made Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince, starring as Professor Minerva McGonagall.
“I was hairless. I had no problem getting the wig on. I was like a boiled egg,” she said.
The chemotherapy was, she said, “something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself”. “You feel horribly sick. I was holding on to railings, thinking ‘I can’t do this’,” she said.
But she insisted she will “stagger through” the final Harry Potter film, The Deathly Hallows. Let’s just pause and ponder on how awesome this woman is, a true Gryffindor.
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So much love for her.
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”The train began to move,and Harry walked alongside it, watching his sons thin face already ablaze with excitement. Harry kept smiling and waving, even though it was like a little bereavement, watching his son glide away from him… .
The last trace of steam evaporated in the autumn air. The train round a corner Harry’s hand was still raised in farewell.
”He’ll be all right,” murmered Ginny.
As Harry looked at her, he lowered his hand absentmindedly and touched the lightning scar on his forehead.
”I know he will.”
The scar had not pained him for nineteen years. All was well.
