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."