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- Harrry Potter VII: Defenders of secrets, unite!
- Harrry Potter VII: Defenders of secrets, unite!
- ‘It was fun torturing Harry Potter’
Daniel Radcliffe: Harry Potter’s First Kiss Took Several Takes to…
FOXNews – Jun 29, 2007
TOKYO — First kisses can be tricky. Even for Harry Potter. Daniel Radcliffe — the star of the Harry Potter series — said Friday while in Tokyo for the premiere of the latest installment that it took a few takes to get over the nerves of getting the young wizard through his first on-screen kiss. And even then, he didn’t really feel the magic. “When we started it, we were both a bit nervous,” Radcliffe said at a news conference. “But after the first few takes, it was sort of like any other scene, which is never really what people want to hear. It doesn’t really feel any different, because you are still acting…
Radcliffe and co-stars Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, who play Harry’s friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, have been at the center of the Potter storm for almost half their lives. All three stars have signed up for the final two Potter films. The Harry Potter books have been translated into 65 languages and sold more than 325 million copies since the first volume, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” was published in 1997. The book was published in the United States with the title “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Harrry Potter VII: Defenders of secrets, unite!
International Herald Tribune – Jun 29, 2007
As the diehard fans of Harry Potter count the minutes until they can get their hands on “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the seventh and final installment in the monumentally successful series by J. Rowling, they are engaging in a frenzy of speculation and rumor-mongering about what will happen to their beloved characters. Predictions are flying across the Web and out of bookstores, where titles like “Mugglenet. com's What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7,” “The End of Harry Potter?” and “The Great Snape Debate” spew theories about who will die, who will get together with whom, and who is really good or evil…
com, the author thanks Anelli for The Leaky Cauldron's spoiler policy, and added her own plea: “I want the readers who have, in many instances, grown up with Harry, to embark on the last adventure they will share with him without knowing where they are going,” she wrote. Attempts to spoil the ending are not new, of course. Four years ago, before the publication of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” the fifth book in the series, The Daily News bought a copy of the book at a Brooklyn health food store four days before publication and ran a graphic image showing two pages of the book. Rowling sued The Daily News for $100 million, and the suit was settled out of court. Hosts of MuggleNet. com, another of the biggest Potter fan sites, learned about the death of Sirius Black, Harry's godfather, a few weeks before “Order of the Phoenix” was published, when someone sent in some scanned pages pilfered from a manuscript. And before “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” the sixth book in the series, was published two years ago, someone reportedly working on a Malaysian military base e-mailed a summary, the first page of every chapter and the whole final chapter to The Leaky Cauldron, revealing that Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts, the boarding school where Harry and his friends train in wizardry, dies at the end of the book.
Harrry Potter VII: Defenders of secrets, unite!
International Herald Tribune – Jun 29, 2007
“I think Harry is going to live,” she said. In that she is joined by the hosts of MuggleNet, whose book, “What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7″ has spent 19 weeks on the New York Times Paperback Children's Best Seller list. “We're absolutely convinced that Harry Potter is not going to die,” said Spartz, who founded the site when he was 12. (He's now 20 and will be a junior at the University of Notre Dame in the fall. )Bookmakers in Britain, meanwhile, stopped taking bets on Harry's fate earlier this month because too many people were betting that the boy wizard would die in the seventh book. “I think that it's an innate human need to be curious about what's going to happen,” Spartz said. Scholastic and Bloomsbury have taken elaborate security steps with booksellers, libraries and distributors to ensure that leaks that have happened in the past don't occur this time.
‘It was fun torturing Harry Potter’
Telegraph.co.uk – Jun 29, 2007
“But the role is a gem and it is heaven to be a part of this world – not to mention I have a much higher status with my 12-year-old at home now. “Her Dolores Umbridge is a pink-wearing control freak who, with a sing-song voice and honeyed smile, terrifies the students and staff at Hogwarts as she carries out her mission as Inquisitor for the Ministry of Magic.