The Tales of Beedle the Bard now available!

All around the world, The Tales of Beedle the Bard is finally being released! The five unique fairy tales that J.K. Rowling wrote initially as a gift to six people who mean a lot to her and the development of the Harry Potter series and were at first only to be read by those select few, are now available at bookstores globally, as well as at online shops such as Amazon.com - the purchaser of the 7th original book that was auctioned for charity. J.K. Rolwing thought that all fans which were disappointed at the fact that they would not read the books had a " 'fair point", so I thought 'I'll publish it and then the charity can have that money too'."

The money from the book, which she beautifully illustrated herself, will go to J.K. Rowling's charity, The Children's High Level Group - a very worthwile cause.

So if you still haven't got yours yet, hurry to your nearest bookstore; or use your credit card, and shop online!

New Header Image !

I have had requests to reduce the header in size as it was taking too long to load. I made a smaller one; and I also created a new design based on the original.

Hope you like it!

New Beedle the Bard Editions

Three new images of different editions of The Tales of Beedle the Bard have surfaced online:

Bulgarian Edition
Bulagrian Edition - Scan
Spanish Edition

Also, don't forget that the book comes out in 9 days, on December the 4th, and will benefit The Children's High Level Group, a very important cause. Click here to read stories of children whose lives improved to a point which they believed impossible, because of this movement.

New Half-Blood Prince Trailer!

An incredible, wonderful, magical new official trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been released from Warner Brothers!

Watch it here:

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J. K. Rowling's Extract for Prince Charles' Birthday Book

J.K. Rowling chose her favourite part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which she says that it may possibly be her favourite part of the entire series, and wrote about it in Prince Charles' Birthday Book for his 60th birthday.

Here's a little of what she wrote:

"The destinies of wizards and princes might seem more certain than those carved out for the rest of us, yet we all have to choose the manner in which we meet life: whether to live up (or down) to the expectations placed upon us; whether to act selfishly, or for the common good; whether to steer the course of our lives ourselves, or to allow ourselves to be buffeted around by chance and circumstance. Birthdays are often moments for reflection, moments when we pause, look around, and take stock of where we are; children gleefully contemplate how far they have come, whereas adults look forwards into the trees, wondering how much further they have to go. This extract from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is my favourite part of the seventh book; it might even be my favourite part of the entire series, and in it, Harry demonstrates his truly heroic nature, because he overcomes his own terror to protect the people he loves from death, and the whole of his society from tyranny."

View the Guardian's report here. The book can be purchased and the royalties will go to Prince Charles' Foundation for Children and the Arts.

New Half-Blood Prince Trailer!

A new Half-Blood Prince International Teaser Trailer has surfaced online this morning! It features some exciting new scenes and dialogue that was not present in the last two trailers.

See it here!

New Cover for Sorcerer's Stone Paperback !

The front cover of Scholastic's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - Special Anniversary Edition paperback has surfaced online! The illustration by Mary GranPre depicts Harry, Mr. Ollivander and Hagrid in Ollivander's Wand Shop.

Click here for a bigger version!

New HBP Calendar Images!

Andrews McMeel Publishing, the US publisher of the 2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince calendar, has released several new images from this year's edition:

Cover 1
Cover 2
Cover 3
Dumbledore & Slytherin's Locket (?)
Malfoy

Dan's new Details Magazine Interview

Daniel Radcliffe is once again appearing in Details Magazine, with a brand new interview and photo-shoot, to promote Equus.

Click here to go to the website!

New Wallpaper Added

A new wallpaper has been added in the wallpaper section.

Click here to go to the wallpapers page.

Enjoy!

Happy Birthday, Rupert Grint !

Rupert turns 20 today - Happy Birthday, Rupert!

Dan Radcliffe featured in American Vogue

Daniel Radcliffe is featured in the latest edition of the American Vogue Magazine. In it, he talks about his role of Alan Strang in Peter Shaffer's very serious play "Equus", the play which met great success last year in London, and which is soon to be played on Broadway.

He says: “I think that everyone has got more in common with Alan than they would like to admit. I’ve never put out a bunch of horse’s eyes of course - but you turn to your own emotions-the sadness, the anger, the loneliness-and just explode them.”

You can see scans of the magazine here:
Side 1
Side 2
Daniel
Dan nude riding a horse

New Patronus-Messenger Toolbar Now Available !

It's here! The site's exclusive new toolbar that accompanies you wherever you are on the web.

Now you can carry your Patronus-Messenger everywhere with you on the web, and enjoy features like:
- An RSS News Feed to deliver you Harry Potter news in an instant;
- A Patronus-Messenger Google Search tool;
- Access to the site's chat, which is only available to owners of the toolbar;
- Protection from pop-ups;
- And a link to Patronus-Messenger, so that you can apparate back here whenever you feel like it.

So what are you waiting for? Get it today!

Happy Birthday Evanna Lynch!

Our favourite actress Evanna Lynch who portrays Luna Lovegood in the HP films turns 17 today.

Have a wondeful day, Evanna!

New HBP Pictures from EW !

Sad about the HBP delay?

To curb our sadness, Entertainment Weekly has new images from Half-Blood Prince, which is now scheduled to be released next July. There are also page scans from EW's Half-Blood Prince set report.

Click on the links below to see them.


Cover
Opening Page - 1
Opening Page - 2
Harry & Slughorn
Slug Club
Bellatrix
Dumbledore & Slughorn
Snape, Narcissa & Bellatrix - The Unbreakable Vow
'Silver & Opals'

Update: Two high-res pictures have been released from Warner Brothers. One depicts Snape, Narcissa & Bellatrix and the Unbreakable Vow; the other shows the very young Tom Riddle in his room at the Orphanage.

Half-Blood Prince Delayed Until July 17th, 2009

You may have checked the date already after reading the headline, but no, it is not April the 1st.

Warner Brothers has just announced that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will not be released until next summer, on July 17th.

Mr. Alan Horn, President of WB, stated:

"Our reasons for shifting ‘Half-Blood Prince’ to summer are twofold: we know the summer season is an ideal window for a family tent pole release, as proven by the success of our last Harry Potter film, which is the second-highest grossing film in the franchise, behind only the first installment. Additionally, like every other studio, we are still feeling the repercussions of the writers’ strike, which impacted the readiness of scripts for other films—changing the competitive landscape for 2009 and offering new windows of opportunity that we wanted to take advantage of. We agreed the best strategy was to move ‘Half-Blood Prince’ to July, where it perfectly fills the gap for a major tent pole release for mid-summer."

He also said:

"Warner currently is riding high with "The Dark Knight," the Batman film that also stars Bale. The grim super-hero movie has taken in $452 million in the U.S. since its July 18 release, making it the second-highest grossing film ever.

To some degree, that success motivated Warner to shift "Half-Blood Prince," Horn said. The film will now hit theaters the same midsummer weekend that "Dark Knight" was released this year. Horn said the young, core Potter audience would be out of school and give the film a longer theatrical life. It will now open opposite Universal's special-effects comedy "Land of the Lost," which stars Will Ferrell. But Horn said there was nothing next year compared to this summer's especially dense slate of big-budget releases."

Mr. Horn finally said: "We would never do anything to hurt one of the movies or the series. We love our fans."

J.K. Rowling's Charity to Publish 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard' !

It's her and Harry's birthday, but J.K. Rowling is giving us and charity a very special gift.

This morning, Scholastic announced that Jo's children's charity, the Children’s High Level Group (CHLG), will be publishing The Tales of Beedle the Bard !

Jo said: "There was understandable disappointment among Harry Potter fans when only one copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard was offered to the public last December. I am therefore delighted to announce that, thanks to the generous support of Bloomsbury, Scholastic and Amazon (who bought the handwritten copy at auction) – and with the blessing of the wonderful people who own the other six original books - The Tales of Beedle the Bard will now be widely available to all Harry Potter fans. Royalties will be donated to the Children’s High Level Group, to benefit institutionalised children in desperate need of a voice. The new edition will include the Tales themselves, translated from the original runes by Hermione Granger, and with illustrations by me, but also notes by Professor Albus Dumbledore, which appear by generous permission of the Hogwarts Headmasters’ Archive."

Scholastic predicts the books will generate around $8 million in sales; money which will of course be going to CHLG and unprotected and powerless children and teenagers around the world which live in unacceptable conditions and institutions all over Europe.