10.14.05
Posted in Scoops at 2:33 am by RavenclawWit
Daniel Radcliffe’s british fan site, DanRadcliffe.co.uk, has posted some scans from the Harry Potter And The Goblet of Fire Movie Poster Book (Scholastic). The book contains pictures of each major young actor in the upcoming movie along with fact sheet(s) for each. The fact pages for Dan are fully six pages of miscellaneous data about the young star, including the type of music he likes, what he likes to eat, and his astrological sign. Also posted at the site are pictures of the other kids and their fact sheets.
I have to say that I sometimes worry about these kids (the maternal coming out in me, I guess). With all the publicity, all the pressure, and with every detail of their personal lives exposed to all, I really hope that they don’t follow the road that so many child stars have ended up on. They seem like good kids with parents that actually care more about them than the money they’re making though, so hopefully they’ll be alright. And growing up in England and not Hollywood probably helps a bit, as well.
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10.13.05
Posted in Reviews at 11:46 pm by Headmaster
Want to relive the wonder and joy you felt the first time you learned about or read Harry Potter? Take a stroll down memory lane with this report from NPR’s All Things Considered from December 3, 1998.
NPR’s Margot Adler reports on a new series of children’s books that have been at the top of Britain’s best seller lists - and are making their way to the States. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is the work of author Joanne Rowling, whose work has been compared to Roald Dahl.
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Posted in Meta at 11:44 pm by Headmaster
For those of you who have never played Warner Brothers Sorting Hat game online, or for those who have and want an experience with a bit more depth, there’s The Harry Potter Sorting Hat Personality Test.
It’s 112 questions long, so don’t take it lightly.
I was sorted into Gryffindor, but just barely. According to the test I’m 78% Gryffindor, 78% Ravenclaw, 70% Hufflepuff and 21% Slytherin.
The sorting hat says that I belong in Gryffindor!
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Said Gryffindor, "We’ll teach all those with brave deeds to their name."
Students of Gryffindor are typically brave, daring, and chivalrous.
Famous members include Harry, Ron, Hermione, Albus Dumbledore (head of Hogwarts), and Minerva McGonagall (head of Gryffindor). |
Take the most scientific Harry Potter
Quiz ever created.
Get Sorted Now!
Your mileage may vary.
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Posted in Humor at 11:01 pm by Headmaster
A couple of Harry Potter fans who also happen to be amateur dancers created this interesting video and put it up on Google’s new video site: Harry Potter And The Hogwart’s Dance Team.
The “story” of the interpretive dance seems to be taken from several of the books, but I can’t be too sure since the quality isn’t the greatest. Still, it’s fun, short (3:46) and it was crafted with love for the source material.
[Via Best Week Ever]
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Posted in Scoops at 10:56 pm by Headmaster
It seems that Salem, Massachusettes - setting of actual witch trials here in the U.S. - was the site a five-day Harry Potter symposium this week. Topics included “Bucolic Bullionism: Economics in the Wizarding World,” “Christianity and Harry Potter” and “Introduction to Spell Writing.”
The event was organized by Texas-based Harry Potter fan group called HP Education Fanon, Inc. and was not sanctioned by Rowling or Warner Bros. Studios, which holds the movie rights.
From the Boston.com article:
The event is not sanctioned by Rowling or Warner Bros. Studios, which holds the movie rights. But its organizers, a Texas-based Harry Potter fan group called HP Education Fanon, Inc., brought the Witching Hour to Salem because the city is the only American location mentioned in any of the books.
That comes in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” the fourth book in what is planned as a seven-book series, when Harry encounters members of the “Salem Witches’ Institute” at the Quidditch World Cup
UPDATE: More information about The Witching Hour is available at their official site.
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Posted in Questions at 10:50 pm by Headmaster
From the IWJ Blog we get the rather inflammatory headline Shadowmancer Author Accuses Harry Potter of Being Gay.
While there’s not much new reporting in their post, it does highlight something we’ve seen on this blog before: author envy.
Why is it that other authors are so loathe to let JK Rowling have any success? Why do others try to tear down the Harry Potter series for the sole reason of its popularity.
It makes no sense and, joke or not, Graham Taylor seems like an ass.
On a slightly related note, I’ll be taking part in next month’s National Novel Writing Month. Anyone care to join me?
I’m not setting out to write another book series, one non-Potter novel would do me just fine.
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Posted in Meta at 10:39 pm by Headmaster
Potterpuffs is a blog that presents Harry Potter art drawn in a PowerPuff Girls style. Well-drawn cartoons and a definite love for both pieces of source material.
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Posted in Humor at 10:33 pm by Headmaster
I always enjoy reading well-written humor, especially via blogs. There’s a certain Harry Potter-related blog entitled What Would Dumbledore Do? that’s putting out some great stuff. Read this excerpt from a recent post:
Vegans Against Harry Potter?
Last night at the Harry Potter Alliance Kickoff Concert, Zach Sherwin of the Late Night Players delivered this incredibly funny and thought provoking monologue:
Ladies and gentlemen, the Late Night Players have recently acquired the following manifesto from an organization calling itself Vegans Opposed to Magically Invasive Testing, or VOMIT. It reads as follows:
The world of Harry Potter is not critter-positive. Bacon, sausage, and steak are on the menu at every Hogwarts banquet. Owls are cruelly caged and forced to fly great distances to deliver letters. And Hermione’s cat’s face is described as “grumpy and oddly squashed, as though it had run into a brick wall.” As Stephanie Tanner might say, “How rude.”
That’s good stuff. Check it out.
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Posted in Humor at 10:26 pm by Headmaster
It seems that the author Mike Gerber (who also blogs) has created an entire Harry Potter parody universe with the protagonist Barry Trotter. Check it out.
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10.12.05
Posted in Scoops at 11:41 am by RavenclawWit
via HPANA
J.K. Rowling won big at yesterday’s First Annual Quill Awards. Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince won for ‘Book of the Year’ and ‘Best Children’s Chapter Book’.
The Quill Awards are a new awards program sponsored by NBC to honor the best in the written word each year. The voting was held online a few months ago. I voted and of course I voted for J.K.R. in everything she was nominated for. She’ll likely never see this, but I would like to congratulate her on this achievement and thank her for enriching many lives with her delightful Potter books. All of her fans look forward to whatever else she has planned when the series is finished.
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