Dumbledore Outing Gives Potter Passages New Meaning
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- Dumbledore Outing Gives Potter Passages New Meaning
- Rare Potter ‘to sell for 12,000′
- Harry Potter leads children’s Baftas
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Dumbledore Outing Gives Potter Passages New Meaning
FOX News - Oct 22, 2007
tour, and set off thousands of e-mails on Potter fan Web sites around the world. Some were dismayed, others indifferent, but most were supportive. the-leaky-cauldron. org, told The Associated Press. “By dubbing someone so respected, so talented and so kind, as someone who just happens to be also homosexual, she’s reinforcing the idea that a person’s gayness is not something of which they should be ashamed…
The Potter books themselves have long been threatened with removal from school and library shelves, with some Christians alleging that the series promotes witchcraft. In Rowling’s fantasy series, Gellert Grindelwald was a dark wizard of great power who terrorized people much in the same way Harry’s nemesis, Lord Voldemort, was to do a generation later. Readers hear of him in the first book, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” in a reference to how Dumbledore defeated him. In “Deathly Hallows,” readers learn they once had been best friends. “Neither Dumbledore nor Grindelwald ever seems to have referred to this brief boyhood friendship in later life,’” Rowling writes. “However, there can be no doubt that Dumbledore delayed, for some five years of turmoil, fatalities, and disappearances, his attack upon Gellert Grindelwald. Was it lingering affection for the man or fear of exposure as his once best friend that caused Dumbledore to hesitate?” As a young man, Dumbledore, brilliant and powerful, had been forced to return home to look after his mentally ill younger sister and younger brother.
Rare Potter ‘to sell for 12,000′
BBC News - Oct 22, 2007
Whoever buys the copy of Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone will see the book signed “Joanne Rowling”. The auction at Christie’s in London on Thursday will also feature an uncorrected proof copy of the book. With “JA Rowling” printed in error on the title page, it is expected to attract as much as 4,000. Other lots at the auction include two more Harry Potter novels, signed by the author with messages to “Ella”, which should together attract bids of at least 700, a Christie’s spokesperson said. Earlier this year, another first edition of the book sold for 9,000 at auction.
Harry Potter leads children’s Baftas
Globe and Mail - Oct 22, 2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix received three nominations on Monday in the junior version of the annual film and television awards. The fifth film based on J.
Bloomberg.com: Muse Arts
Bloomberg - Oct 22, 2007
Rowling says she's tied the knotwith her main character. “I actually married Harry Potter. My husband's here, and ifyou have seen a photo of my husband, I think Harry Potter willlook like that once he hits a certain age,'' the bestsellingauthor said. Rowling, 42, sat on a scarlet throne onstage at CarnegieHall in New York this morning as her young audience whoopedenthusiastically. It was her third of four readings in the U…
3 million copies in its first 24 hours on sale and11. 5 million copies in its first 10 days. There are 140 millioncopies of the Harry Potter books in print in the U. To encourage young readers, Scholastic is donating 5,000copies of Rowling's first Potter book, “Harry Potter and theSorcerer's Stone,'' to New York City schoolchildren. Of Potter's friend Ron Weasley, Rowling said, “The truth isthat in my younger days, I dated Ron more than once.