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We have become used to great technological advances in the cinema, to wisecracking insects and humans walking up walls, but the look of Harry Potter introduces a concept that has a new feel to it: we might call it naturalistic magic. Privet Drive is a row of semi-detached Barratt-type houses such as you'll see in any town in Britain, and the characters, however grotesque and fantastic, speak and look like people we know. A lot of the film's power has to do with the way the places, such as the school, and even the medieval-looking surroundings, are rendered fabulously familiar and everyday.