No, seriously. It’s been a weird day for celebrity deaths, and Robert Knox, the actor who won the role of Marcus Belby in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was murdered recently while trying to protect his brother from knife-wielding assailants.

Apparently, Knox and his brother were out in Kent, which is in the southeast portion of England, when Knox and his younger brother Jamie got in a fight with two knife-wielding men over what was reportedly something to do with a stolen cell phone. The men attacked, reportedly stabbing four others, and Knox was taken to a hospital where he died of his wounds shortly thereafter. Police have opened investigations, and don’t believe as yet that the murder was gang-related.

Of course, some folks would at this point lean in to suggest that England’s ridiculous gun laws haven’t made the country one iota safer as proven by the fact that even major celebrities involved in filming one of the biggest franchises in film history can’t go out for the evening without getting murdered, but that’s not why we’re here.

We join with Warner Brothers, who has already released a statement of shock and sadness and condolences for the now-grieving family. And of course, we offer up some Harry Potter series trivia to celebrate the life of the young man who might have had a dream come true had it not been for random knife-wielding psychopaths in Kent.

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