"If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us."
The magic of Harry Potter is having no effect on his latest adversary - the Highland weather.
The Met Office forecast more than a touch of Siberia for the Highlands at the end of February when the final sequences of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire were due to be shot and the filming of the last sequences for the blockbusting movie has been put back a week as a result.
The delay is also affecting 100 excited children from the Kinlochleven, Fort William and Mallaig areas who are being signed up as extras. Dressed in black as pupils of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, they are due to feature in the filming around Glenfinnan and Glencoe.
The weather also means a cameo appearance by the character Hagrid, on a Glencoe hillside, will also be delayed.
A film insider said: "The production unit were well aware that the long-range forecast was anything but magical for next week. Although the Glenfinnan area, in particular, can be frequently touched by the Gulf Stream, the snows and not the sunshine are very much to the fore in early spring."
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