Note: I cannot get information on JKR's or any other famous person's address or phone number.
HP in the News: Updated July 10, 2003 - Homemade brew starts a fire, OotP pirated on the internet, Durlsey's house for sale, rare HP book sold at acution...
JK Rowling: Updated July 9, 2003 - Favourite Quotes updated, More money than the Queen
Forbidden Forest: Updated July 10, 2003 - First Phoenix Quiz from Newsround, Book V Reviews
The HP Movies: Updated July 9, 2003 - Knightbus pic, No Cho Chang, New cast members?
HP Links Page: Updated June 1, 2003.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
For more cover art from around the globe, check this out.
July 10, 2003
And someone who doesn't like Harry Potter - What reknowned author A. S. Byatt thinks...
July 9, 2003
June 24, 2003
Read a review from The Globe and Mail...
Read some review from the SQ Professors...
June 23, 2003
Oops! OotP Missing Pages?!?
Some fans were quite upset when they finally got their hands on JKR's latest opus and realized that they were short hundreds of pages! Read more ...
Order of the Phoenix Sales Out of this World!
OotP sold almost 1.8 million copies in the UK in its first day.
This sales record easily broke the previous records, making Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix the fastest seller of all time!According to figures from Nielsen BookScan the fifth book sold 1,777,541 copies on Saturday. GoF, comparison, sold just 372,775 copies when it went on sale for the first time in July 2000.
The first four Harry Potter books make up more than 13 million of book sales in the UK alone. The first in the series, Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, is the biggest seller after shifting 3,371,090 copies.
THE PHOENIX
The title of JKR's new book is going to be Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The Phoenix is a creature associated with the Greek god Apollo and the Egyptian God Re. The Egyptians portray the Phoenix as a heron. It symbolized immortality, resurrection, and the afterlife, which is why the symbol of the heron is found on sarcophagi.
The Greeks believed that the Phoenix was a unique creature that lived in Arabia, near a cool well. It was thought that the Phoenix bathed in the well at dawn and sang a beautiful song. The sun-god, enchanted by it's beauty, would stop his chariot which pulled the sun across the sky, to listen.
The Phoenix lived for either 500 or 1461 years. When the time for it's death approached, the phoenix would build a nest of aromatic wood and set it ablaze. The phoenix died on this pyre and from the ashes a new phoenix would rise. The new phoenix embalmed the ashes of the cremated phoenix and made an egg of myrrh. The phoenix flew with the egg to Heliopolis ("city of the sun"). There it would deposit the egg on the altar of the sun god.
Toronto Star's Illustrated Guide to Harry Potter: I found this link and the pictures are great!
Official Sites:
Rupert Grint - Ron Weasley
Tom Felton - Draco Malfoy
James and Oliver Phelps - Gred and Forge
Sean Biggerstaff - Oliver Wood!
Chris Rankin - Percy Weasley
The Sugar Quill - The best in fan fiction; it's all good...
Gryffindor Tower - A Harry/ Ginny Archive; Lot's of Sox
The Werewolf Registry - Attention Lupin Lovers; Arooooooooooo!
First Phoenix Quiz: Try your hand at Newsrounds OotP quiz.
The Harry Potter Personality Quiz: Find out which character you are most like!
The Harry Potter Obsession Quiz: Just how obsessed with Harry Potter are you?
Harry Potter and Greek Mythology Quiz: No, his name isn't really Fluffy...
Ron Chat - (04/11/02) Ron chat at the Official Site
Emma Chat - (04/11/02) - Emma Watson talks about working on the set with Rupert and Daniel
Daniel Chat - (04/11/02) - Why Cos is his favourite book.
Daniel Chat - (31/10/01) Daniel surprised by fame. (video didn't work.)
Emma Chat - (30/10/01) Emma says she gets the best lines.
Rupert Chat - (29/10/01) Rupert thinks the movie is spot on, and he's a big HP fan.
JKR Chat! - There are a few spoilers here.
Another JKR Chat - (03/11/01) No hints, but an informative chat from the Toronto Star.
JKR interview with BBC One - (12/08/01)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
So, for all of us still waiting for her to complete book 5, here are some titles recommended in Sunday's Ottawa Citizen:
Year of the Griffin and Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diane Wynne-Jones
A Plague of Sorcerers and Journeyman Wizard (both set in a wizard school) by Mary Frances Zambreno
Magic Steps and The Circle Opens by Tamora Pierce. A pair of teens track down an elusive killer using magic.
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. Dubbed the most popular book of the century in various surveys. The movie comes out in December. (You mean there are still some of you who haven't read this?)
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. Clever wordplay, over-the-top scenarios and relentlessly unhappy endings.
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman. Pullman wraps readers in alternate universe where every human I paired up with an animal representing alter ego.
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle. 1963 Newberry Medal winner. Two children look for their time-travelling father and encounter another world in this blending of sci-fi, mysticism, and mystery, the winner of the Newberry Medal in 1963.
The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin. One of the Grande Dames of sci-fi dazzles with her story of a fantastic rite of passage in which a young boy becomes a wizard's apprentice.
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer. Despite 1.5 million in advances, the story of a nasty anti-Potter has had mixed reviews.
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Harry Potter: Friend or Foe?
There is an awful lot of controversy around the Harry Potter books, most of it coming from Christians, although some Wiccans are also opposed to the portrayal of witches in J. K. Rowling's series. As a Christian, I enjoy the Harry Potter books, and find them to be high quality children's reading with moral, though perhaps not religious, aspects. I do not think they promote satanism or even wicca, but I do think parents have the right and responsibility, to check out what their kids are reading, and to set guidelines for them. Here is one essay that I have found that expresses some of the same feelings that I hold on this issue. "Trusting Harry Potter" I found another interesting article recently. I have it posted on the HP News Page. Another new article on HP from a Christian perspective.
