Young artists judge Magical Creatures contest
Number Twelve Grimmauld Place
The six Harry Potter books constitute a lengthy, complex tale. We’ll recap it in installments. Here is part eight. Harry and Dudley are set upon by two dementors in an alleyway near the Dursleys’ house, the summer before Harry’s fifth…
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Magical Creatures; astute commentators
LAURIE TRIEFELDT, THE STAR-LEDGER Winners of the Star-Ledger Magical Creatures art contest will be announced Sunday in a special 8-page color section of The Star-Ledger featuring reproductions of all 18 winning entries. For details, see “categories” at left and click…
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Vox Hunt: Summer Reading List
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Dan Radcliffe on Living in London
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‘Deathly Hallows’ hacked?
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Potter movie location tours
LONDON, June 14 — Harry Potter certainly knows how to wave his magic wand over cathedrals, colleges and castles. Sites selected for the films certainly hit the jackpot. Alnwick Castle, Britain’s largest inhabited castle after Windsor Castle, is used for…
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The Prophecy Revealed
The six Harry Potter books constitute a lengthy, complex tale. We’ll recap it in installments. Here is part ten. Hagrid returns from his mission to the giants, having failed to enlist their support in the fight against Voldemort. He is…
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Purported spoiler out there
A hacker calling himself Gabriel says he has hacked into the computers of Bloomsbury, the publishing house that distributes the British edition of the Harry Potter books. The hacker claims to have gained access to Book Seven. He has posted…
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*POOF* Amazon makes another dollar disappear
According to Publishers Weekly, Amazon has once again cut its deep discount price of $18.99 for the final book in J.K. Rowling’s saga, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, to $17.99, which is 49 percent off the $34.99 cover price….
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The land of make-believe
Natalie Babbitt, author of “Tuck Everlasting,” the cautionary immortality tale (is there any other kind?), once said that for children, it’s never too late.MICHAEL GUILLEN, THE STAR-LEDGER She means, says English professor Michael Levy, a specialist in young-adult fantasy literature…
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Art contest judging completed
Here’s the latest report from Star-Ledger Graphics Editor George Frederick: We visited Newark Arts High Friday morning, where some of the students judged the final two categories of the Magical Creatures Art Contest. The first group included work by New…
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Scavenger hunt with Book Seven as prize
A company that organizes scavenger hunts has scheduled two for 7-9 p.m. July 20th, one in Greenwich Village, one in Philadelphia. Winners are to receive certificates for copies of “Deathly Hallows.” On the hunts, offered by Watson Adventures, adult-child teams…
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Harry Potter themed hair accessories
This came into my mailbox and I thought I’d just mention it. A company called Sassy Tails http://www.sassytails.com announced it has been licensed by Warner Bros. Consumer Products to sell Harry Potter themed hair accessories. The line includes headbands, head…
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Chit-chat with the actors
HUBBY KNOWS NOW Even Daniel Radcliffe, the actor who plays Harry in the movies, has been kept in the dark about the ending of the Harry Potter story. “None of us gets a preview,” Radcliffe told a news conference on…
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Yay! Potter Spam
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The storm gathers
The six Harry Potter books constitute a lengthy, complex tale. We’ll recap it in installments. Here is part nine. The school year begins ominously when Sirius — still in hiding — transforms into a dog to accompany Harry to the…
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See winning art contest entries July 1
The winners of the Star-Ledger Magical Creatures art contest will be announced July 1. The announcement will be made in the form of a special 8-page color section of The Sunday Star-Ledger in which all 18 winning artworks will be…
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The gospel according to Rowling
I had never read a Harry Potter book until three months ago, when a hopeful editor buttonholed me with a plea: Would I, the newspaper’s religion reporter, write about religious imagery in the series? We reporters don’t freely turn down…
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Harry parallels Tony?
It’s somewhat outdated by last night’s Sopranos finale, but you might like to have a look at a story published today that draws parallels between Harry Potter and Tony Soprano. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18999823/site/newsweek/…
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Harry Potter and Satanism. LOL, tell me it isn’t true!!!
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Harry Potter and Wal(de)Mart
Discount retailer Wal-Mart today announced it is encouraging its more than 1 million blue-vested employees to sign a pledge, vowing not to reveal how Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ends after the book comes out July 21. Customers can…
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Harry Potter theme park planned
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London calling, for seven lucky Harry Potter fans
Scholastic, the U.S. publisher of Harry Potter, will wave its wand and send seven Potterphiles to the same midnight book launch in London that author J.K. Rowling will attend. Doh! It’s true. Here’s more: New York, NY (May 23, 2007)…
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Potter fans: Shelf Life needs YOU!
In the 31 days remaining until Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows arrives, Shelf Life and The Post-Standard will be busier than a kitchen full of house elves, whipping up platters of delicious (and fun!) stories. And we need…
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Harry Potter theme park
Move over, Magic Kingdom. Orlando’s got a new trick up its sleeve: Harry Potter. AP Photo/Universal OrlandoIn this artist rendering provided by Universal Orlando, “The Wizarding World of Harry Potter” at Universal’s Islands of Adventure theme park is shown. Warner…
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Rowling gives exclusive interview to NBC’s Today
AP Photo/Seth WenigAuthor J.K. Rowling speaks during a press conference in New York last August.Just noticed that NBC’s Today and Dateline will air a three-part interview of Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling in the days following the much-anticipated release of…
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Life after “Deathly Hallows”
This week’s Time magazine offers some tummy-tickling suggestions of storylines J.K. Rowling can use to keep the Harry Potter series alive after Book 7 comes out in July. Among them, Harry Potter and the Dark Lord of the Dance, whose…
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Rowling to tour U.S. in fall
AP Photo/Scholastic,Ann BillingsleyJ.K. Rowling reads from “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” at New York’s Radio City Music Hall last year. She just announced she’ll do a limited U.S. tour in the fall, to promote her seventh and final Potter…
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Open Auditions for Next Potter Film
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Dispatch from the you-gotta-be-kidding-me dept.
As the days sloooowly count down to the release of the final (sniff) Harry Potter book on July 21, many eager readers simply shift nervously in their chairs, scour the Net for spoilers and YouTube goodies or re-read Harry Potter…
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Harry Potter street party, etc.
Scholastic Inc., the U.S. publisher of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, announced yesterday it will throw a “Harry Potter Place” street party outside its NYC headquarters the day before the final HP book is published. Among the nifty stuff planned:…
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Who’s the Harry-est of them all?
Check this out: Amazon.com’s latest Boy Wizard promotion is its “Harry-est Town in America” campaign. It goes like this: The online superstore keeps track of which U.S. burb places the most pre-orders for J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly…
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HP7: Who you calling a nerd?
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Muggle Pants?
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Phoenix soundtrack out July 10
“Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” is coming out July 10th, the day before the movie opens in the U.S. and Canada. The score is by British composer Nicholas Hooper, who recorded nearly two…
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MuggleNet here in Syracuse… TODAY!
Ben Schoen and Emerson Spartz, two of the minds behind MuggleNet, a popular Harry Potter fan site, will be at Borders at 4 p.m. today, to hawk their New York Times best-selling book, MuggleNet.com’s What Will Happen in Harry Potter…
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Harry’s successor?
According to story on today’s Guardian Unlimited, the British publisher who first spotted the potential of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter character now says he sees the same magic in Tunnels, a planned series about a boy archaeologist. Read all about…
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24 days? Wow.
(Click on the floating book to wake it up, then use your cursor to make it move and spin!) Happy waiting….
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Harry hacking
LiquidLibraryOK, we can’t pretend it didn’t happen anymore. Although we at Shelf Life spotted a news item yesterday, about a hacker claiming to have discovered the ending to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by breaking into computer files at…
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Harry Potter Movies 