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Happy birthday to Prof. Snape

JK Rowling has updated her web site to wish of Prof. Snape (who is no longer with us) a happy birthday, it’s January 9th in the UK.

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Jo Rowling Updates Site, Gives Fan Site Award to the HP Alliance

The latest update to JKRowling.com includes info about her reaction to the sale of Beedle the Bard to Amazon, an explanation of the meaning of “The Scottish Book,” as she used the term on PotterCast, and a fan site award to The HP Alliance, for their work “Becoming Dumbledore’s Army,” and spreading the messages of love and tolerance through the world using the Harry Potter books as inspiration. Jo says:

“Long overdue, I give you the HP Alliance (as mentioned in Time Magazine!) I am honoured and humbled that Harry’s name has been given to such an extraordinary campaign, which really does exemplify the values for which Dumbledore’s Army fought in the books. To Andrew and all the others who work on this most inspirational website: the world needs more people like you.”

Regarding “Beedle of the Bard,” Jo recounts how she swore successively louder with each bid, and by the time the book had sold, “the air turned a lovely shade of blue.” She also says how thrilled she is that the book will not be “mouldering in a vault,” but brought around the world so children can see it.

As for “The Scottish Book”: “There is a superstition that it is unlucky to speak the name ‘Macbeth’ in the theatre, so actors always refer to it as ‘the Scottish Play’. Given the contentiousness that has sprung up around the Encyclopaedia lately, I simply thought we might start showing it similar respect!”

Source: Leakynews

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JK Rowling updates official site with several updates

Jo has made several updates to her website today! One can be found in the Extra Stuff section regarding the Elder wand, a couple can be found in the FAQ area here and here, and one is the Characters area.

The author also made a nice update to her diary, where she reflects on the Summer that was:

The US/Canadian tour was my favourite ever. If anybody reading this was in the audience for any of those events, thank you, because they were only as wonderful as they were because of the brilliant questions and the overwhelming warmth of those present.

And lastly, in the News section, Jo revealed that the documentary (who’s crew was following her for a year leading up to the release of Deathly Hallows) will be aired on ITV in the UK on December 30th, 2007.

Source: Mugglenet

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Happy Birthday Hagrid!

The calendar on author J. K. Rowling’s website has been updated for December 6th to wish Hogwarts Gameskeeper Rubeus Hagrid a Happy Birthday!

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JK Rowling to auction off seven of “The Tales of Beedle the Bard”

Another update was made to JK Rowling’s official website today, in which it was announced in the news section that not only has Jo written ‘The Tales of Beedle the Bard’, the book of fairytales mentioned in Deathly Hallows, but also that the seventh of these rare, handwritten items will be auctioned for charity, The Children’s Voice, with a starting price of £30,000.

The book includes the previously heard, “The Tale of the Three Brothers”, as well as new stories, “The Fountain of Fair Fortune”, “The Wizard and the Hopping Pot,”, “Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump” and “The Warlock’s Hairy Heart”.

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