More owls slowly appeared on J.K. Rowling’s YouTube channel as the countdown ticked closer to the deadline today. After the clock reached zero, a video was uploaded with an announcement. Pottermore, as it turns out, is not a Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game, sadly. It might be the next best thing, though. Pottermore.com will be, […]
Four years after the publication of the seventh Harry Potter book, and about a month before the final movie, J. K. Rowling once again is…up to something. A new website, Pottermore.com, has gone up. It’s pretty much a fancy “coming soon” page, with an accompanying Twitter profile and a countdown on Rowling’s YouTube channel. Some […]
The first trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is now online, featuring a few clips from the huge battle at Hogwarts, as well as the Gringots break-in. Apparently the final fight between Harry and Voldemort has been…embellished a bit. The Leaky Cauldron, as usual, has links to high-quality QuickTime, Windows Media, […]
It’s finally here. Part one of the final Harry Potter movie. It has been almost ten years since I first saw Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, after reading the first few books and waiting impatiently for it to be released. Since then there have been many book and movie releases. After nearly a decade, […]
The latest Harry Potter film adaptation, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, just hit theaters today. The sixth to date, it does the book justice despite the usual complaints of things being cut-out. The movie starts with a bang, namely the destruction of the Millennium Bridge in London. A group of three Death Eaters, doing […]
The Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince videogame, by Electronic Arts, has been released. The game is available for the major consoles, including the Wii, or as a PC/Mac combo DVD-ROM. More on Ride Inside Hogwarts Castle at Wizarding World of Harry Potter Theme Park Matt Lewis On Missing the St. Mungo Scene and More […]
Bloomsbury Publishing is staving-off plagiarism charges from the estate of one Adrian Jacobs, a little-known supposed fantasy author who created The Adventures of Willy the Wizard No. 1 Livid Land, a 1987 novella of 36 pages which had a very limited distribution. The suit claims that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire infringes upon […]
It’s no secret that I’ve long been a fan of the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling. It was the first fantasy series I really got into, and the book that really got be going running a serious website (The Site of Requirement). The series follows the story of Harry Potter, a boy orphaned […]
