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Make the forum, go to the forum permissions. Click on deny all.
Then go back to forum permissions and enable the usergroups you want to grant access to.
Make a new usergroup called 'premium forum access'
Go back to the forum permissions and give this unique usergroup permission to this forum.
And upgrade the account of those few users to this additional new usergroup, granting them access to that forum.
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