Thanks to regular commenter OxAO for tipping us to this story.
Related: ‘Harry Potter’ Star in Family Feud Over Hindu Beau.
From The New York Post
Family of ‘Harry Potter’ actress charged with threatening to kill her over boyfriend
Muslim fury over beau
By ANDY SOLTIS
Last Updated: 6:37 AM, July 3, 2010
The strict Muslim father and brother of “Harry Potter” actress Afshan Azad have been charged with threatening to kill her because she has a boyfriend.
Azad, 22, fled the suburban English home she shared with her father, Abdul, 54, mother, Nilofar, and three brothers after the bizarre incident on May 21, authorities said.
A spokesman for prosecutors said her brother Ashraf, 28, physically attacked her and both he and their father threatened to kill her because of her relationship with an unidentified Hindu man.
They confronted her in her bedroom and left her “badly bruised” when she refused to stop seeing the man, the Daily Express said.
Afshan, who appeared in four Potter movies is believed to have taken refuge at the London home of friends.
Both of the accused men appeared in Manchester Magistrates’ Court and were ordered not to travel to London while the case was adjourned until July 12. Their bail conditions also required them to observe a curfew of 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. and not to contact an unnamed man, believed to be the boyfriend.
No other details of the incident were disclosed. But Ashraf told the Daily Telegraph that the family will suffer as a result of the scandal.
“We are going to get trouble from the community now,” he said. “It is bad news for our safety, her safety.”
“Her career could be ruined. When she goes to a premiere or something, they are going to ask her about this, not the film,” he added.
“My younger brother is going to get harassed at college,” Ashraf said. “All our family is going to be harassed by the community because of this.”
Afshan, who had never acted before, was a student in Manchester in 2005 when she auditioned as a “laugh” for the film “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.” She won the role of Padma Patil, one of Harry’s witch classmates and later his girlfriend.
She appeared again as Padma, the twin of Parvati Patil, who is played by 22-year-old Shefali Chodhury, in three more films and will appear in the final installment, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows,” next year.
The arrests were the latest misfortune for a Potter cast member. In 2008, Rob Knox, who played Marcus Belby in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” was stabbed to death when he tried to break up a fight involving his 17-year-old brother.
Just one more example of love, compassion, and understanding from practitioners of ‘The Religion Of Peace’.
@Big Frank
yeah, but putting a face to someone that we have seen before they tried to kill her personalizes it a bit.
Here is a pic of her playing her role in Harry Potter:
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u225/Lilo_luv_potter/Harry%20Potter/PadmaPatil.jpg
It looks like more then just a threat there was assault and battery involved.
Some people just do not get conquered by the Jihad of the Arabs. Hindus, Sikhs, Christians and Buddhists know how to knock Jihad on the head with iron bar when it comes on its camel. They show mercy and kindness to the camel and harshness to the arab and refuse to conquered. They know about kindness.They know about harshnes. The arab conquered slaves of Bangladesh get upset and then start behaving like their Arab rulers. It is only to be expected. I know this is what the arab conquered persian slaves do. Every friday they have a death to America rally after mosque time. Some have been going at it for 40 years and chanting away. Losers.