Harry Potter Dumbledore's Knife

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Hello everyone,as an avid Harry Potter fan I occasionally look through "The Noble Collection" and I found this knife:
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Now maybe it's just me but doesn't this look very close to the classic Opinel knives? I just thought this was interesting
 
Its probably customized opinel for the movie. Looks like vivré lock has been engraved and handle chanced and they added end cap. Still blade shape and vivré lock scream: Opinel!

I never noticed that till now you mentioned nice find. Now that we speak Opinels in movies I also noticed that in movie Stardust Hero Tristan used bigger Opinel like 9 or 10 at least once in the movie. I am big fan of Opinels and I like to see that humble opinel finds it way to big films aswell.
 
Isn't there another Opinel-like knife, with the same type of lock...but not from France?
 
Esav Benyamin said:
The Marjacq is French and practically the same as Opinel.
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Holy hell, DO NOT google Marjacq images without the Safe Search on. I don't know what the heck Marjacq means in French, but it'll bring up images that you don't want to see, and you don't want your family, employers, or the FBI know that you've seen. 'Nuff said?

As for the knife, I don't know if that's the knife I was thinking of, but the Opinel certainly looks more like Dumbledore's knife than the Marjacq, at least with the blade profile. Do Opinels have the engraved/stamped design on the reverse side of the blade that's on Dumbledores? Every dang picture of an Opinel that google brings up shows it from the obverse.

It definitely looks like the movie prop department took an Opinel and modified it, or at least used its design as a template. Prop makers are extremely talented people, and it's possible they fabricated the prop from scratch. It's also possible that the prop itself is not an functioning folding knife (or knife-like-object). I loaded up the DVD (yeah, yeah, I know, I'm a dork) and you only see him "pull" the knife, not open it or close it. The blade definitely looks Opinel-shaped. You don't get a good view of the rest of the knife though.

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In the book (yeah, yeah, I know...) it's simply described as a "short silver knife of the kind Harry used to chop potion ingredients", which earlier is described as being a silver bladed dagger. That apparently went out the window when the movie adaptation was made, but who really cares?

I have no doubt that the replica prop is a faithful reproduction of the actual prop, but it's definitely an interesting question of how the original prop came about.
 

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Planterz said:
Isn't there another Opinel-like knife, with the same type of lock...but not from France?
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I haven't watched the Harry Potter movies but in addition to Opinel, Nontron used a ring lock.

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http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...ontron-(Beginnings-of-a-very-small-collection)

Chris Reeves made "helix" knives which had wood handles and a ring lock. They were quite beautiful and I'd love to find one.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...eves-quot-Barrrel-or-Opinel-quot-Style-Knives
 
Planterz said:
I loaded up the DVD (yeah, yeah, I know, I'm a dork)

In the book (yeah, yeah, I know...)
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:D Man card - revoked!

Kidding Planterz. We just got the new one on Blu Ray. Have all the books too. My wife is a HP nut. I enjoy the movies as well.

As for the knife, I'm sorry to say I never caught it in the movie. HP movies aren't the type where I would keep an eye out for a traditional or any other knife. Is that the Half Blood Prince?
 
Rupestris said:
As for the knife, I'm sorry to say I never caught it in the movie. HP movies aren't the type where I would keep an eye out for a traditional or any other knife. Is that the Half Blood Prince?
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Yeah, right at about 2 hours in. In the cave where Voldemort hid the amulet, Dumbledore cuts his hand with the knife to make a blood sacrifice to open the wall.
 
Now thats interesting. I would have thought that Dumbledore would have had a fancier knife design than that.
 
With Dumbledor's penchant for gadgets (scenes from his office) you'd expect him to carry a knife with a unique mechanism, also tied with some fancy traditional style. I would guess a knife exactly like the one they chose. Of course I don't know a thing about HP's world.:o Not that there's anything wrong with those who do.;)
 
The ORIGINAL was probably a tarted up Opinel for the movie. From a review on the WBshop, I surmise that this is typical Frank mint crap zamask or pot metal blade. Also I bet the horn isn't. TOO BAD, if it was a tarted up Opinel I would have one. I am a big fan of Dumbledor. Just back from the last film it was very good.

PS. If anyone knows for sure sure what kine metal and if it's real horn or not PLEASE let me know.
 
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