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Holiday Message from Emma Watson on Official Site
Emma Watson has updated her official website with a new E.M.S. (Emma’s Messaging Service) message for the Christmas holiday. In her newest message, which you can read right here, Emma talks of returning to production on the sixth film, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” and of one of its newest cast members, Jessie Cave. She describes the actress who is portraying the character of Lavender Brown in the film as ”…very cool, although our characters really don’t get on in the film.” Emma continues speaking on the “Half-Blood Prince” filming in her message to fans by saying:
We have actually just finished filming a scene with Lavender and Ron kissing, where Hermione gets really jealous which was quite fun!
Her message wraps up by saying she’s “looking forward to seeing all of my family” for the upcoming Christmas holiday and enjoying “some quiet time.”
As mentioned previously, the television film, “Ballet Shoes,” set to be broadcast on BBC1, will also be broadcast in Canada and New Zealand. The CBC has now updated their holiday schedule (.pdf download here) to show the film in which Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) and Richard Griffiths (Vernon Dursley) star, will be air on December 30th at 5pm. “Ballet Shoes” will first air in the UK’s BBC1 on Boxing Day (December 26) at 8:30pm.
Source: Leakynews
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TLC has now released the transcript for Part 1 of the Audio Chat! You can check it out at our forums here!
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| Thanks to Mugglenet, we now have another clip from the upcoming documentary “JK Rowling… A Year in the Life.” It shows a very emotional Jo returning to the flat she once lived in. Click the link below to see the video and an accompanying press release. Remember that the documentary will air on December 30th on ITV at 7:00 PM. |
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...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
(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Research Finds Harry Potter Descended from Wizards
As if any more evidence was needed, researchers from Oxford University who have been studying aspects of wizarding genes, found that evidence points to Harry Potter descending from a magical bloodline. The Telegraph has a fun look this evening at ‘an analysis of wizardry’ study on the genetics of wizards from the Harry Potter novels. Their aim is to study wizard lineage in hopes to “address the heritability of magic.” They have found, and have published in the British Medical Journal, that magical ability could indeed be passed down from generation to generation. Basing its research on elements of the story contained in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” in addition to the first six books in the series, such as information on various family lineages including the Blacks, Gaunts, and Weasleys, the study goes into great detail on the topic. Dr. Knight, a Senior Researcher from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, says of this project:
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows provides a lot of valuable information about magical families that strongly suggests a role for genetic factors.
“For example, magic exists in at least seven generations of the Black family and at least three generations in others. We also see twins – the Patil and Weasley twins – with the same magical abilities.”
The article details their findings, which, in part, contradict a previous study of wizard genes which ‘claimed magical abilities depend on a recessive version of a gene: all wizards and witches thus have two copies of the wizard “W” gene, distinguishing it from the ordinary M, or Muggle, version.’ Todays new Oxford-based study, however, builds upon the formers findings and says (with mildly spoilerific details in tow):
Rather than being all down to one gene, they believe enchanted skills can vary across a spectrum of strength, depending on the combined influence of a dominant gene for magic, which is turned on or off depending on epigenetic effects, and modified by the influence of a number of genes, along with the environment.
There appear to be three magical skills that are conferred by specific genes. “One of these is the capability to speak to snakes (parseltongue), known to be only a feature of those who are direct descendants of Slytherin.
Another is to be a seer; Sybill Trelawney, although not perfect, has this ability, and her great-great-grandmother was also extremely gifted in this respect.
Lastly, being a metamorphmagus (the ability to change one’s physical appearance) is an ability that Nymphadora Tonks passed on to her son,” says the BMJ paper.
While this hypothesis may only be based on the fictional world of author J. K. Rowling’s creation, the researchers still wait for a full analysis of a wizard’s genetic code in the future, and conclude: “magic shows strong evidence of heritability.”
Source: Leakynews
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