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Earlier today, Bloomberg detailed Apple’s multi-year plan to ditch Qualcomm and debut its own modem technology in the iPhone and iPad. In a follow-up report this afternoon, Bloomberg says that Apple is also “investigating the idea of bringing cellular connectivity to the Mac for the first time” as part of these efforts. Apple is expected to debut the first version of its cellular modem next year in the iPhone SE 4, the iPhone 17 Air, and the base model iPad. The following year, it will debut a higher-end version of the chip with faster 5G connectivity for the iPhone 18 Pro. As part of this transition, Apple is also investigating bringing cellular to the Mac as soon as 2026: With its own modem in the pipeline, Apple is investigating the idea of bringing cellular connectivity to the Mac for the first time. That means users wouldn’t need Wi-Fi to get online. To date, that capability has been reserved for the iPhone, Apple Watch and iPad. But cellular connections are unlikely to come to the Mac before 2026, when Apple is planning a second-generation modem that includes support for faster speeds. Also in consideration is a cellular-equipped version of the Vision Pro: The company is also discussing bringing cellular support to headsets, including future models of the Vision Pro. Someday, the technology may also be used in lightweight augmented reality glasses, though such a device is years away. Check out our coverage from earlier today for more details on Apple’s modem plans. My favorite Mac accessories : Magic Keyboard with Touch ID (USB-C) OWC 11-Port Thunderbolt 4 Dock Magic Trackpad (USB-C) Satechi 200W 6-Port Charging Station Twelve South HiRise 3 Deluxe

For travelers, Puerto Rico is a floating island of desirabilityThousands of Syrians gathered in Damascus’ main square and a historic mosque for the first Muslim Friday prayers since former President Bashar Assad was overthrown , a major symbolic moment for the country’s dramatic change of power. The rebels are now working to establish security and start a political transition after seizing the capital on Sunday. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Friday, pressing ahead with efforts to unify Middle East nations in support of a peaceful political transition in Syria. It’s part of Blinken’s 12th trip to the Mideast since the Israel-Hamas war erupted last year in Gaza but his first after Assad was ousted. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.

Second-year nursing student Khadija could not sleep the whole night after one of her classmates posted on WhatsApp that the Taliban were planning to bar women from being educated as nurses or midwives. "The next morning, we were not allowed to attend classes," said Khadija, 22, who had studied at a private medical training institute in Kabul, Afghanistan. She did not want her family name revealed for security reasons. Overnight, all their studies were suddenly in vain, she said. "All the girls were crying but couldn't do anything." The Taliban's Ministry of Health on Monday informed the leaders of medical training institutes in Afghanistan about the new ban on women's education in the institutes, which mainly offered classes in nursing, midwifery, medical laboratory science and dental assistance. The next day, Khadija and the other women were barred from attending their classes. It was the second time that Khadija had been barred from going to a university. Before starting her nursing degree, she had been a second-year economics student at Kabul University. In December 2022, the Taliban imposed a ban on women receiving a university education, saying that female students "failed to comply" with class gender-segregation rules and dress codes. There was a loophole, however. For the past two years, Taliban had allowed women to take classes at the medical training institutes. That loophole closed Monday. "After being barred from university, I thought I could continue my education by pursuing a nursing degree," said Khadija. "But now I wouldn't be able to complete it. "All my dreams were tarnished again," she said. 'The last hope' Another nursing student who requested anonymity told VOA that nursing school "was the last hope" for her to continue with her education. "The Taliban banned us from going to the university where I was a political science student and now from medical institutes," she said. The Taliban imposed repressive restrictions on women in Afghanistan after coming to power in August 2021. Under the Taliban, women are banned from receiving a secondary or university education, working with state and nonstate organizations, traveling long distances without a close male relative, and going to parks, public baths and salons. Afghanistan is listed last — 177th out of 177 countries — on Georgetown University's global Women Peace and Security Index of inclusion, justice and security for women. The United Nations estimated that the annual loss from the Taliban's ban on women's employment was $1 billion, or 5% of the country's gross domestic product. Impact on the health sector A female lecturer at one of the medical training institutes in Kabul, who also requested anonymity, told VOA that the Taliban's new directives would take a high toll on the female teachers at the education centers. "Now all the female teachers would be staying home," she said. "It will affect them and their families financially, and of course, it will have an impact on Afghanistan's economy." It is not clear how the Taliban make these decisions, she said. "If they say that it is based on Islam, then why is it different for Afghanistan than other countries?" she asked. Wahid Majrooh, former Afghan minister of public health, told VOA that since 2021, Afghanistan has no female medical school graduates because of the Taliban ban on girls' and women's education. He added that many female physicians left the country because of the Taliban's restrictions. The loss of women in the country's medical sector "will not be compensated for years to come," he said. International reaction The Organization of Islamic Cooperation issued a statement Thursday expressing "grave concern over this unexpected and deeply disappointing directive." "Such a decision comes not just as a frustrating blow to the basic rights of Afghan women, but it is also likely to produce a detrimental impact on Afghanistan's healthcare system, which is facing formidable challenges," read the statement. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan warned of the "detrimental impact" of the Taliban's ban on health care. UNAMA's statement said that "if enforced, the ban would further curtail women's rights to education and healthcare, exacerbating existing challenges in the country's medical sector." Rina Amiri, the U.S. special envoy for Afghan women, girls and human rights, said in a post on X that the ban "threatens to complete the erasure of women by depriving them of access to health services, including maternal and life-saving medical care." Khadija calls on the international community to do more. "They have not done enough. They should stand with Afghan girls and women who are protesting for their rights," she said. Sahar Azimi of VOA's Afghan Service contributed to this story, which originated in VOA's Afghan Service.Photo: Unsplash The Westbank First Nation has issued a cougar warning. The warning was issued on Thursday evening after a cougar was spotted near the ball diamond on Falcon Lane on WFN lands. "Please use caution in and around the community. Avoid walking alone or at night if possible," said WFN on social media. According to the RCMP , cougars can be especially dangerous to small children, because their higher voices, more erratic movements, and smaller size make it difficult for cougars to identify them as human and not prey. People are advised not to approach cougars but if you do come into contact with a cougar you are advised to stay calm, give the cougar an escape route and talk to the cougar in a confident tone of voice. "Do not turn your back and do not run, try to back away from the cougar slowly. Sudden movement or flight may trigger an instinctive attack," said the RCMP advice.It is an ambitious social experiment of our moment in history — one that experts say could accomplish something that parents, schools and other governments have attempted with varying degrees of success: keeping kids off social media until they turn 16. Australia's new law, approved by its Parliament last week, is an attempt to swim against many tides of modern life — formidable forces like technology, marketing, globalization and, of course, the iron will of a teenager. And like efforts of the past to protect kids from things that parents believe they're not ready for, the nation's move is both ambitious and not exactly simple, particularly in a world where young people are often shaped, defined and judged by the online company they keep. The ban won't go into effect for another year. But how will Australia be able to enforce it? That's not clear, nor will it be easy. TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram have become so ingrained in young people's lives that going cold turkey will be difficult. Other questions loom. Does the ban limit kids' free expression and — especially for those in vulnerable groups — isolate them and curtail their opportunity to connect with members of their community? And how will social sites verify people's ages, anyway? Can't kids just get around such technicalities, as they so often do? This is, after all, the 21st century — an era when social media is the primary communications tool for most of those born in the past 25 years who, in a fragmented world, seek the common cultures of trends, music and memes. What happens when big swaths of that fall away? Is Australia's initiative a good, long-time-coming development that will protect the vulnerable, or could it become a well-meaning experiment with unintended consequences? The law will make platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram liable for fines of up to A$50 million ($33 million) for systemic failures to prevent children younger than 16 from holding accounts. “It’s clear that social media companies have to be held accountable, which is what Australia is trying to do,” said Jim Steyer, president and CEO of the nonprofit Common Sense Media. Other countries watching Australia Leaders and parents in countries around the world are watching Australia’s policy closely as many seek to protect young kids from the internet's dangerous corners — and, not incidentally, from each other. Most nations have taken different routes, from parental consent requirements to minimum age limits. Many child safety experts, parents and even teens who have waited to get on social media consider Australia's move a positive step. They say there’s ample reason to ensure that children wait. “What’s most important for kids, just like adults, is real human connection. Less time alone on the screen means more time to connect, not less," said Julie Scelfo, the founder of Mothers Against Media Addiction, or MAMA, a grassroots group of parents aimed at combatting the harms of social media to children. “I’m confident we can support our kids in interacting in any number of ways aside from sharing the latest meme.” The harms to children from social media have been well documented in the two decades since Facebook’s launch ushered in a new era in how the world communicates. Kids who spend more time on social media, especially when they are tweens or young teenagers, are more likely to experience depression and anxiety, according to multiple studies — though it is not yet clear if there is a causal relationship. What's more, many are exposed to content that is not appropriate for their age, including pornography and violence, as well as social pressures about body image and makeup. They also face bullying, sexual harassment and unwanted advances from their peers as well as adult strangers. Because their brains are not fully developed, teenagers, especially younger ones the law is focused on, are also more affected by social comparisons than adults, so even happy posts from friends can send them into a negative spiral. Many major initiatives, particularly those aimed at social engineering, can produce side effects — often unintended. Could that happen here? What, if anything, do kids stand to lose by separating kids and the networks in which they participate? Paul Taske, associate director of litigation at the tech lobbying group NetChoice, says he considers the ban “one of the most extreme violations of free speech on the world stage today" even as he expressed relief that the First Amendment prevents such law in the United States "These restrictions would create a massive cultural shift,” Taske said. “Not only is the Australian government preventing young people from engaging with issues they’re passionate about, but they’re also doing so even if their parents are OK with them using digital services," he said. "Parents know their children and their needs the best, and they should be making these decisions for their families — not big government. That kind of forcible control over families inevitably will have downstream cultural impacts.” David Inserra, a fellow for Free Expression and Technology, Cato Institute, called the bill “about as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike” in a recent blog post. While Australia's law doesn't require “hard verification” such as an uploaded ID, he said, it calls for effective “age-assurance” that includes an array of ways companies can estimate someone's age. He said no verification system can ensure accuracy while also protecting privacy and not impacting adults in the process. Privacy advocates have also raised concerns about the law's effect on online anonymity, a cornerstone of online communications — and something that can protect teens on social platforms. “Whether it be religious minorities and dissidents, LGBTQ youth, those in abusive situations, whistleblowers, or countless other speakers in tricky situations, anonymous speech is a critical tool to safely challenge authority and express controversial opinions,” Inserra said. “But if every user of online platforms must first identify themselves, then their anonymity is at risk.” Parents in Britain and across Europe earlier this year organized on platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram to promise not to buy smartphones for children younger than 12 or 13. This approach costs almost no money and requires no government enforcement. In the United States, some parents are keeping kids off social media either informally or as part of an organized campaign such as Wait Until 8th, a group that helps parents delay kids' access to social media and phones. This fall, Norway announced plans to ban kids under 15 from using social media, while France is testing a smartphone ban for kids under 15 in a limited number of schools — a policy that could be rolled out nationwide if successful. U.S. lawmakers have held multiple congressional hearings — most recently in January — on child online safety. Still, the last federal law aimed at protecting children online was enacted in 1998, six years before Facebook’s founding. In July, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation designed to protect children from dangerous online content, pushing forward with what would be the first major effort by Congress in decades to hold tech companies more accountable. But the Kids Online Safety Act has since stalled in the House. While several states have passed laws requiring age verification, those are stuck in court. Utah became the first state to pass laws regulating children’s social media use in 2023. In September, a judge issued the preliminary injunction against the law, which would have required social media companies to verify the ages of users, apply privacy settings and limit some features. NetChoice has also obtained injunctions temporarily halting similar laws in several other states. And last May, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said there is insufficient evidence to show social media is safe for kids. He urged policymakers to address the harms of social media the same way they regulate things like car seats, baby formula, medication and other products children use. Said Scelfo: “Why should social media products be any different? Kids may try to get around the restrictions — just like they do for alcohol, tobacco or drugs — but nobody is saying that because they try, we should give them unfettered access to them. Parents cannot possibly bear the entire responsibility of keeping children safe online, because the problems are baked into the design of the products. And so we need policies that hold Big Tech accountable for ensuring their products are safe.” Associated Press Writer Laurie Kellman contributed to this story.

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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — New York Jets running back Breece Hall could play Sunday at Jacksonville after missing a game with a knee injury. Hall has been dealing with a hyperextension and injured MCL in his left knee that sidelined him last Sunday at Miami. But he was a full participant at practice Friday after sitting out Wednesday and Thursday. Hall was officially listed as questionable on the team's final injury report. “He looks good right now,” interim coach Jeff Ulbrich said. “So it’s promising.” Hall leads the Jets with 692 yards rushing and four touchdown runs, and he also has 401 yards receiving and two scores on 46 catches. A pair of rookies helped New York offset Hall's absence last weekend, with Braelon Allen rushing for 43 yards on 11 carries, and Isaiah Davis getting 40 yards on 10 attempts and scoring his first rushing touchdown. “We’re hopeful and we’ll see how it goes,” Ulbrich said of Hall. The Jets will get star cornerback Sauce Gardner back after he missed a game with a hamstring injury, but New York's secondary appears likely to be without cornerback D.J. Reed because of a groin injury. Reed was listed as doubtful after he didn't practice Thursday or Friday. “It’s been something that’s kind of lingered here and there,” Ulbrich said. “It’s gotten aggravated and then it went away, and then it got aggravated again. So, it’s just dealing with that.” Backup Brandin Echols is out with a shoulder injury, so veteran Isaiah Oliver or rookie Qwan'tez Stiggers could get the start opposite Gardner if Reed can't play. Kendall Sheffield also could be elevated from the practice squad for the second game in a row. Ulbrich said kick returner Kene Nwangwu will be placed on injured reserve after breaking a hand last weekend at Miami. The injury came a week after he was selected the AFC special teams player of the week in his Jets debut, during which he returned a kickoff 99 yards for a touchdown and forced a fumble in a loss to Seattle. “To put him out there with a broken hand, just thought it’d be counterproductive for him and for us as a team, so it unfortunately cuts the season short and what a bright light he was,” Ulbrich said. “What an amazing future I think he has in this league. With saying that, he’s already been a really good player for quite a while, so (it's) unfortunate, but he’ll be back.” Offensive lineman Xavier Newman (groin) is doubtful, while right guard Alijah Vera-Tucker (ankle) and RT Morgan Moses (wrist) are questionable. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL

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Blondes don’t always have more fun. Just ask Harry Potter alum Evanna Lynch , who traded her signature bleach blonde hair for a spellbinding darker ‘do in a video shared on social media Dec. 4. In the clip, the actress—who played the Luna Lovegood in the movies based on J.K. Rowling ’s best-selling book series—styled her hair in a ponytail with her long bangs brushed to the side as she discussed her personal connection to the franchise, including naming her cats after some of the characters. “I had Harry, I had Dumbledore, I had Luna—but Luna deserted me,” she said in a TikTok video posted by Food Network . “She just got tired of us and left. We didn’t know where she went, and then it turned out she was living with the next door neighbor.” However, the dark locks aren’t exactly new, as the 33-year-old previously revealed the dye job in a 2023 photo on her since-deactivated Instagram page. “I do feel blonde suits me better,” Evanna wrote at the time, according to the Daily Mail , “but lately in all my dreams I was consistently sporting these glamorous shiny raven locks for some reason. I felt I was being stalked by my dark and shadowy twin so I had to become her!” Who else has pets named after Harry Potter characters like Evanna Lynch?! 👋 #WizardsOfBaking In the years since the Harry Potter film series came to an end in 2011, Evanna has continued to embrace her ties to the franchise. In fact, she reunited with costars Rupert Grint , Tom Felton and twins James Phelps and Oliver Phelps in 2019 for an event at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park in Orlando, Fla., casting levitation spells with fans amid chants of “Wingardium Leviosa.” Keep reading to see what Evanna and the rest of the young stars of Harry Potter are up to now. The boy who played Harry Potter is ever grateful for the role that knocked down all the doors for him, but he's also been busy scrubbing any child-star residue from his acting image, starting with his raw, nudity-requiring Broadway debut in Equus in 2007. He followed that up with the more chipper How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in 2011. For years he has alternated between theater ( The Cripple of Inishmaan , Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead ) and film ( The Woman in Black , Victor Frankenstein) , leaning heavily into the dramatic and/or the absurd. To be sure, if there's some dark humor to be found, Radcliffe is into it, whether on TV playing a morphine-addicted physician in A Young Doctor's Notebook or a low-level angel trying to prevent God from ending the world in Miracle Workers— or playing a flatulent corpse in 2016's Swiss Army Man . He was starring in Samuel Beckett 's Endgame at the Old Vic in London when live theater and everything else was shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. Since then, he played the villain opposite Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum in their 2022 rom-com The Lost City and portrayed musician "Weird Al" Yankovic in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story , a biographical parody film for The Roku Channel. Sober since 2010, Radcliffe has also been open about drinking to excess back when the Harry Potter franchise was nearing its finish and, already more famous than he ever dreamed, he was anxious about his next step in life. "In my case, the quickest way to forget about the fact that you're being watched is to get very drunk," he said on Off Camera With Sam Jones in 2019. "And then as you get very drunk, you become aware that, 'Oh, people are watching more now because now I'm getting very drunk, so I should probably drink more to ignore that more.'" Radcliffe has been in a relationship with actress Erin Darke since meeting her on the set of 2013's Kill Your Darlings , in which he played "Howl" poet Alan Ginsberg . In March, a rep for Radcliffe confirmed to E! News that the couple is expecting their first child. The Paris-born and Oxfordshire-raised kid had no more than a few school plays on her resume when she was cast as Hermione Granger, her first professional acting job. After completing the seven films, Watson split her time between college at Brown University (she graduated in 2014 with a degree in English literature) and starring in indie movies such as The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Bling Ring . The latter of which saw her breaking out of her rule-abiding Hermione shell as part of a band of privileged but maladjusted young thieves who start stealing clothes, jewelry and cash from celebrity homes. While modeling for the likes of Burberry and Lancôme, Watson played Belle in the hit 2017 live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast and in 2019 was the more traditionally minded eldest March sister, Meg, in Greta Gerwig 's Little Women . She has also become an activist focused on gender inequality, launching the HeForShe campaign as a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador in 2014 and remaining an outspoken advocate for parity in the film industry and beyond. Past boyfriends have included Will Adamowicz , Matthew Janney, William "Mack" Knight and Leo Robinson , but these days she's happily coupled with Brandon Green . In May 2021, Watson addressed reports about her possible retirement from acting , tweeting, "Rumours about whether my career is 'dormant or not' are ways to create clicks each time they are revealed to be true or untrue." It was as if the redhead from Essex sprang from the earth ready to play Harry's best mate, Ron Weasley. Grint—whose first big post- Potter honor was being part of the Olympic Torch relay before the London Olympics in 2012, an "amazing" experience he said he'd cherish forever— has acted primarily in British productions. Most notably he starred in The ABC Murders on BBC One, based on the Agatha Christie mystery, and the Sky One dark comedy Sick Note , playing an average Joe whose life perks up after he's given a false-alarm cancer diagnosis but decides to let everyone continue to believe he's still sick. ( Lindsay Lohan was among his co-stars.) His movies have included CBGB , about the famed punk-rock club in New York, and the French comedy Moonwalkers . He currently stars on Apple TV+ in Servant , M. Night Shyamalan 's supernatural mystery series, which returned for a second season, and appeared in the writer and director's horror film Knock at the Cabin . "From the moment I got the part [of Ron], my life completely changed," Grint told Radio Times in 2018. "It was a weird time and it has taken me a long while to process. Just being invisible can still be difficult. Sometimes you just want to go to B&Q." He also said, "After Potter I didn't really know what I wanted to do. I had this feeling that I had missed out on normal things. I lost touch with a lot of my friends from school. I wanted to have a bit of a life again, so I took a break. I've never really been super-ambitious. I think there's always been something in me, particularly when I finished Potter, that wants to prove myself, but I'm also naturally quite an insecure person anyway." Whatever he was doing worked. Shyamalan told EW.com about Grint, "He came in and auditioned, and I just saw a different person. I don't know if I've ever seen this kind of reinvention from child actor to adult actor in my life, it's amazing." In May 2020, Grint and longtime girlfriend Georgia Groome welcomed their first child , daughter Wednesday G. Grint . Without a doubt, the erstwhile child actor who played the awkward Neville Longbottom has made the biggest splash in the then-and-now department, as news of Lewis' grown-up hotness has since traversed the globe. Lewis has primarily done stage and screen work in his native England, including the BBC One miniseries The Syndicate , the 2016 tear-jerker Me Before You and the 2018 revenge thriller Terminal with Margot Robbie . In 2015, he raved about the enjoyable time he was having playing a soldier in the BBC Three dramedy Bluestone 42 , about a bomb disposal squad in Afghanistan. "Potter was an amazing and a unique experience that I was privileged to have been a part of," Lewis told RadioTimes.com , "but I've never been as involved with or as proud of a project as I have with Bluestone 42 —I've had so much fun being a part of it, so much more than I've ever had before as an actor, definitely." On the Mantality podcast in January 2020, he said he'd been filming All Creatures Great and Small for Channel 5—an update of the classic BBC show that ran from 1978 to 1990 based on the books by James Herriot . The title might not mean a lot to some, Lewis noted, but it was "a bit of an institution" in Britain (and it's since come to Masterpiece on PBS). He's a private fellow, but we do know that he married Angela Jones in 2018 and that they made at stop at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter World—the very place where they first met—in October 2019. They live in Florida, where Jones is from. The nefarious Draco Malfoy (two consecutive MTV Movie Awards for Best Villain) was really a platinum-haired doll with a heart of gold in real life. In the summer of 2011 he was in Rise of the Planet of the Apes , but has since been in less CGI-heavy films, most notably the period dramas Belle and A United Kingdom . He blew fanboys-and-girls' minds showing up as Julian "Dr. Alchemy" Albert on the CW's The Flash in 2016. Additionally, Felton starred on the YouTube Premium sci-fi drama Origin and the films Ophelia , Braking for Whales and the World War II thriller Burial . Also a singer-songwriter, he has released several EPs over the years as well, and his Instagram , where he delightfully makes soup, plays guitar, hangs out with his dog and has the occasional Potter reunion , is one of the most joyful places on the Internet. Felton dated Jade Olivia Gordon —Draco's flash-forward wife, Astoria Malfoy—for seven years before their breakup in 2016. The actor released his memoir, Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard , in 2022, opening up about his struggles with childhood fame, substance abuse issues and finally set the record straight about his relationship with Emma Watson . "I've always had a secret love for Emma, though not perhaps in the way that people might want to hear," he wrote. "That isn't to say there's never been a spark between us. There most definitely has, only at different times." While nothing romantic formed from that spark, they still have love for each other as friends. "I don't think I was ever in love with Emma," Felton explained, "but I loved and admired her as a person in a way that I could never explain to anybody else." The auburn-haired actress was barely 10 when she started playing Ginny Weasley, going from "Ron's little sister" to Harry Potter's soul mate over the course of the films. In 2011 Wright won the Most Edgy Look Award at the Rodial Beauty Awards and made her London Fashion Week debut walking the runway for London-based designer Katie Eary . Wright graduated from London College of Communication and formed her own production company, BonBonLumière, in 2012. In addition to acting in such non-Potter movies as After the Dark and Who Killed Nelson Nutmeg? , the artist and activist has written and directed her own short films, including Separate We Come, Separate We Go, starring David Thewlis ( the Remus Lupin); 2014's Know Thyself , with Christian Coulson , who played Tom Riddle; and Medusa's Ankles featuring Jason Isaacs , aka Lucius Malfoy. In 2021, Wright released her first book, Go Gently , which offered readers tips on how to become involved in the climate movement. In December 2019, Wright joined Watson, Felton, Lewis and Evanna Lynch for a reunion that, happily, someone thought to take a picture of. "Time turning," Wright captioned the pic , punctuating the sentiment with a lightning bolt. She was previously engaged to Sweeney Todd star Jamie Campbell Bower , who played a young Gellert Grindelwald in Harry Potter and the Death Hallows Part 1 , but they called it off in 2012. She then dated Simon Hammerstein for several years before finding love with Andrew Lococo in 2020. The pair got married in March 2022. In April 2023, Bonnie announced that she is pregnant with their first child. Not to take away Fred and George Weasley's individuality or anything... but Ron's twin older brothers and Hogwarts' resident pranksters were indeed played by actual twins (Oliver is 13 minutes older and has a mole on the right side of his neck). They have since played twins in other films, including Our Own Worst Enemy and Last Night in Soho , directed by Edgar Wright , while James has done more acting on his own. Another way to tell them apart: Oliver has been married to Katie Humpage since 2015 and they have two daughters, while James exchanged vows with Annika Ostle the following year. The brothers remain as close as ever, hosting a podcast together called Normal Not Normal and have interviewed former co-stars such as Evanna Lynch, Katie Leung and Alfred Enoch . The British actor started out in the Hogwarts student ensemble as fellow Gryffindor Dean Thomas and, after doing a slew of theater in England and popping up in the likes of Broadchurch and Sherlock , starred on four seasons of How to Get Away With Murder . There he played the well-intentioned but inevitably morally compromised and doomed law student Wes, though he returned for a cameo as—SPOILER ALERT—Wes' own son in the mindboggling final season in 2020. He has since appeared in Apple TV+'s Foundation and he is also a graduate of The Queen's College, Oxford. Chris Columbus was looking for a 15-to-17-year-old to play the specter of 16-year-old Tom Riddle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets , but the 23-year-old Coulson won the part anyway. He's been working in film and TV ever since, most notably playing Damien George on Nashville , Sebastian in the Golden Globe-winning Amazon Prime series Mozart in the Jungle and Benjamin on High Fidelity , the Hulu reboot of the book-turned-movie starring Zoë Kravitz as the lovelorn, list-making record store owner, now set in Brooklyn. After beating out roughly 3,000 other aspirants to play Harry's Goblet of Fire -era crush, Cho Chang, the classically trained Scottish actress did theater and TV on her side of the pond, including the series White Dragon and Chimerica . Most recently she appeared in the BBC One limited series The Nest . On the big screen, she played the daughter of Jackie Chan 's character (whose death in a terrorist bombing he spends the movie avenging) in the 2017 action-thriller The Foreigner . She currently stars on the Amazon Prime TV series The Peripheral , which was recently renewed for a second season. Leung revealed in a December 2022 Instagram post that she had welcomed her first child, a son named Wolf . In March 2021, Leung, who is of Chinese descent, opened up about the hate she received online after her casting was announced . "I was like, Googling myself at one point and I was on this website which was dedicated to kind of Harry Potter fandom and I remember reading all the comments. It was a lot of racist s--t," Leung said on the Chinese Chippy Girl podcast. "And then somebody had actually created a website, a hate site—it was like, if you disagree with this casting, then click on this button and then it would just be like a count of how many people disagreed with the casting and you would just see a number...I know, it's awful. It's so awful." Gosh, whatever happened to the lad who played ill-fated heartthrob Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ... Oh, right: Pattinson landed the lead in the other major YA franchise roiling hearts and minds, The Twilight Saga , and played brooding vampire Edward Cullen in five films, dating co-star Kristen Stewart along the way. Since then he has distinguished himself in the acting department with gritty turns in independent films like Maps to the Stars , Cosmopolis , The Rover , Good Time and The Lighthouse. But he returned to big budget blockbusters when he donned the iconic cape and scowl as the titular DC superhero in 2022's The Batman . Previously engaged to FKA twigs , Pattinson has been dating model and actress Suki Waterhouse since 2018. The statuesque Fleur Delacour from Beauxbatons Academy in France, chosen to represent her school in the Triwizard Tournament, eventually marries Ron's groovy big brother Bill. Since then Poésy has worked steadily in film and TV, most prominently on Gossip Girl, the dark comedy In Bruges , the English and French crime series The Tunnel and in Genius: Picasso on National Geographic Channel. The French actress appeared in Christopher Nolan 's Tenant opposite her former Triwizard Tournament opponent, Robert Pattinson, and the Apple TV+ series The Essex Serpent . She will next star in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon , the highly anticipated spinoff centering on Norman Reedus ' beloved titular character from the zombie franchise. Poésy has a son, Liam , who was born in 2017, and welcomed a second child in 2019. "I was thinking today how much it's made me closer to women, somehow; closer to women in the centuries before, the whole clinical aspect of being pregnant and then becoming a mum and giving birth, it makes you think a lot," she told The Guardian at the time. "It's made my admiration for women even stronger." The angelic-looking actress stole her scenes as the scatterbrained but heroic Luna Lovegood starting in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix —but she admitted that she struggled to get acting work after being part of the iconic franchise. "It was just weird because we were getting all this fan mail and all this attention," Lynch told Bustle in 2019. "But I found in the real world that wasn't reflected. And it was hard. I think for a while I really missed the validation of being in a giant film series where anything you did was just admired and gushed over. A vegan herself since 2015, Lynch started a clean, cruelty-free beauty line, Kinder Beauty Box, in 2018, and co-hosts a podcast, Just Beings , with Dr. Melanie Joy. She came in third place on Dancing With the Stars in 2018 and she released her first book, The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting , in 2021. She told Bustle that she remained especially close to Katie Leung and Scarlett Byrne (Pansy Parkington)—they were planning to go to a New Year's Eve party together to ring in 2020—and saw a lot of her former co-stars at conventions. "I think a lot of us have bonded more since the films," Lynch said. "Just because we're older and we're adults now. Say, for example, I hung out with the twins this weekend, James and Oliver [Phelps]. And I didn't talk to them much on the films because when you're 14 and whatever, they're 18 or 19, it seems like such a giant age gap. When you're adults it doesn't seem that much." Draco's henchman Goyle also cleaned up his act since his Slytherin days, most recently appearing in the British crime drama Marcella with Anna Friel , the 2018 big-screen update of Robin Hood , the crime miniseries Murder at White House Farm and the spy drama Alex Rider . In 2016, he began his MMA career, though he recently had a small role in Disney+'s Andor . Herdman is also dad to a son, Morgan , with longtime partner Jessica Worth . Like most of the Harry Potter bullies, even Dudley Dursley was a perfectly nice bloke in real life. Mid-franchise, Melling started a workout regimen and got into such good shape he was almost recast before Deathly Hallows Part 1 , but was able to stay on as Harry's portly spoiled cousin by wearing prosthetics. Though fairly unrecognizable from those days, Melling has worked consistently on stage and screen ever since, including roles in The Lost City of Z , the Coen brothers' The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and the HBO series His Dark Materials . More recently, Melling reteamed with Joel Coen to play Malcolm in the director's take on The Tragedy of Macbeth , with Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand as the murderously ambitious main duo. Melling also appeared as Harry Beltik in the hit Netflix series The Queen's Gambit and co-starred opposite Charlize Theron in the streaming giant's action flick The Old Guard. And last year, he earned rave reviews for his turn as a young Edgar Allan Poe in The Pale Blue Eye .