Shropshire photographer and Harry Potter fan Dee Jarvis had a magical time when she visited the set of the final movie about the boy wizard.

Dee Jarvis's picture of Daniel Radcliffe filming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

It was the day Harry Potter fan Dee Jarvis had a wizard time.

Superstar Emma Watson took her photograph; Mini-Me skipped and did a funny little jump for her; and Daniel Radcliffe looked her in the eye as he buried Dobby after the heroic house elf was killed by Bellatrix Le Strange.

“And I used the same loo as Hermione Granger and then couldn’t find out how to flush it,” confesses Dee from Stirchley, Telford.

Harry Potter fan and photographer Dee Jarvis

Keeping such company, you’d think was a celebrity and famous in her own right, but the stay-at-home mum-of-two was simply a huge Harry Potter fan and a keen photographer who last month worked her way onto the set during the filming of the last ever film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, due for release in 2012.

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The result is a set of stunning pictures which give a unique insight into the making of the secretly guarded last Harry Potter movie and which, when she put them on the Harry Potter social networking site Leaky Cauldron, attracted 150,000 hits in just 16 hours.

Dee had to take the pictures down because they were being used without payment on scores of other websites.

She says: “I had no idea of the impact. I was just a fan who likes photography.”

But as magically as anything conjured with a wand in a JK Rowling fantasy, at a time when her husband Dave has been made redundant, Dee has found her work in demand in national magazines and she is now beginning a whole new career as a photographer.

Not bad for a Harry Potter fan who with her sister went on a pilgrimage to see scenes of her favourite film series being shot on a beach in Pembrokeshire, South Wales.

“We just turned up with a packed lunch and a camera,” says Dee. “It was amazing, like we had stepped into the film.”

As the cameras rolled, everywhere on the meticulously cleaned sands at Fresh West there were screaming fans trying to get a glimpse of their heroes.

Dee’s tactic was to stay composed and get her pictures. By the end of the day she had spent 10 hours in the enviable company of some of the hottest movie stars on the planet.

Throughout filming and between shots, Dee fired away with her camera, the stars happy to have their pictures taken.

“They didn’t mind,” says Dee. “Daniel Radcliffe or Rupert Grint who plays Ron Weasley would look at me as though to say ‘Go on, it’s fine’.

“There were paparazzi there but if anybody tried to stand in front of me the security people would move them on to a path behind me.”

As a fan, Dee, 35, had to pinch herself. Not least because of what she was going to tell her two kids, who like her are both massive Harry Potter fans.

She continues: “I couldn’t believe I was witnessing it. We were so close and it was very surreal – to think that we were seeing what millions of people are going to see on the big screen in 2012 was mind-blowing.

“We saw Harry bury Dobby who saves him and is then killed by Bellatrix Le Strange, which is a vital part of the film and it looks as though they are going to stay true to the book. It was a real honour to watch that.

“And we watched the scene where Hermione apperates – moves from one place to another.

“She is attacked by Bellatrix Le Strange and apperates to the beach.

“Ron Weasley comforts here and we see their relationship blossom. My photograph of this is a pivotal part of their relationship.

“These are two of the most important scenes and it was brilliant. I will take the memory to the grave.

“A lot of the filming for Harry Potter is done indoors and the public cannot get close, so we were very, very lucky.”

It was, she says, one of the most memorable days of her life. Here was a woman who’d once read the entire seven Harry Potter films in seven weeks flat and who had lost count of the number of times she’d watched the films at the cinema and on DVD.

And now the work of her heroine, JK Rowling, was unfolding like magic theatre in front of her eyes.

She admits to being bemused by how accommodating the crew were. “It was a very hot day with nowhere to shade and the film crew gave us suncream – I think they felt sorry for us.

“At one point we desperately needed the toilet and asked ‘would it be possible to borrow a bucket?’ One of the film crew said he would go and check for us and the security took us to this Portaloo and so I came to sit on Emma Watson’s toilet seat

“It was beautiful in there, very posh – I stole a paper towel,” she confesses with a mock flounce.

Not only that but she even managed to get the mobile phone numbers of all the stars in the film, having been given a roll call sheet for the day’s schedule.

But perhaps the most memorable moment came between filming when Emma Watson, who plays Hermione Granger, took out her camera and began fooling around with it. With Dee capturing these playful moments, eventually the star turned her lens on the mum from Telford and began firing away.

“I cannot believe I had this stand-off with Emma Watson,” says Dee. “I thought ‘I hope she does not think I’m paparazzi’, but I was laughing and she was laughing and she was there for ages on the sand dunes.

“Everyone was really quiet and I felt quite the celebrity. I was shaking. To think I am in Emily Watson’s private photograph collection. She has got pictures of me and I’m part of her record of the making of this awesome film.”

• To view more of Dee Jarvis’ photographs taken on location of the Harry Potter and the Deathly  Hallows visit www.panache-imagery.co.uk

• The new Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, is released on July 17. To mark the occasion the Shropshire Star is on the look-out for the county’s biggest Harry Potter fan. To nominate yourself or someone you know, simply send us your details through the comment box below.