A celebrated author of "Travel With Trolls" and "Gadding With Ghouls," an Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defense League, for goodness sake's, a FIVE TIME winner of "Witch Weekly's" Most Charming Smile Award - Gilderoy Lockhart is one heck of a wizard (Just ask him). But if Kenneth Branagh had his way, he'd be one thing more...

"Harry's dad!" the actor joked, laughing about his experience reading the seventh novel while hoping for big things from his character so that he could return to the series. "I think everybody who had even been in one [of the movies] was keeping their fingers crossed when that seventh book came out. Am I Harry's dad? Could I be Harry's dad?!? I felt like writing a note to JK to say, 'Have you ever considered this as a plotline?'"

Of course, for all we know Lockhart is still roaming the halls of St. Mungo's, practicing his autograph and chatting with the Longbottoms - exactly where he was last time we saw him in "Order of the Phoenix." For his part, Branagh expressed disappointment that filmmakers didn't keep that sub-plot in the movie. Read more...

Here at the MTV Movie's Blog we've had a lot of fun in recent months with silly "What Ifs:" What if Brian De Palma directed "Spider Man"? What if David Cronenberg directed "Return of the Jedi"?

But talking about his new film "Valkyrie," Kenneth Branagh has a what if for us that's anything but silly: What if Hitler had been assassinated before the end of WWII?

"One feels the weight of that [question]," Branagh sighed. "The near misses, a last minute replacement of a bomb behind a wooden oak table leg that meant the course of the 20th century changed. Everything would have changed."

It's a question that Branagh admitted to spending a lot of time thinking about ever since he joined Tom Cruise on the Bryan Singer film, which follows Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and a tight band of resistance fighters as they attempt to kill Hitler, an assassination attempt known to history as the July 20 Plot. Read more...