Rowling offers hints about final Harry Potter book
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- Rowling offers hints about final Harry Potter book
- Rowling offers hints about final Harry Potter book
- Wizard rockers reach out to ‘Potter’ fans
Rowling offers hints about final Harry Potter book
Newsday – Mar 4, 2008
Rowling has said that in “Deathly Hallows,” “a couple of characters I expected to survive have died and one character got a reprieve,” though – natch – she’s not specifying. She has said, though, that she understands the temptation to kill off Harry before the end of the final book, to forestall others from writing sequels.
Rowling offers hints about final Harry Potter book
Newsday – Mar 4, 2008
?In “Half-Blood Prince,” Harry and Dumbledore travel to a cave in the hopes of finding a Horcrux; instead, they recover a locket and a note to Voldemort indicating that the real Horcrux has been stolen and will be destroyed. ,” which many think is Regulus Alphard Black, brother of Harry’s godfather, Sirius – an interpretation that Rowling has called “a fine guess.
Wizard rockers reach out to ‘Potter’ fans
pittsburghlive.com – Mar 4, 2008
I had heard of them through a Young Adult Libraries (online) listserv. People were talking about this great band that did concerts based on the Harry Potter books. Yes, there’s a whole genre of music based on the Harry Potter novels, though there’s no uniformity of sound. “There are emo wizard rock bands, punk-influenced wizard rock bands, kind of folky wizard rock bands,” says Brooks-Reese. story continues below There are as many as 300 wizard Rock bands in existence now. The Carnegie Library is hosting a winter concert series featuring some of the better known bands. The shows are free, and word spreads mostly online through Myspace…
The urge to play wizard rock sometimes strikes like lightning. Other times, it’s a more gradual thing. “One day, after reading the six Harry Potter books, I went to a party, and was just goofing with a guitar,” says Alex Carpenter, 24, guitarist-songwriter for The Remus Lupins, from Los Angeles. “And I made up a song about how much I didn’t like this character Snape — who’s a big debatable character in the series — and I recorded it and put it up on Myspace kind of as a joke. I found out there was a lot of interest in this character — it generated a lot of attention, and soon I was doing a 70-date summer tour at libraries. Stephanie Anderson, 21, of Ann Arbor, Mich. , is the band Tonks and the Aurors — she’s planning on adding a keyboardist and a drummer, but at the moment, it’s just her.