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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Can't Get Enough Harry Potter? Now There's 'Pottermore'

Author J.K. Rowling is offering early admission to her new website, Pottermore.com, for fans clever enough to find her clues and solve the riddle.

It's been four years since the release of the seventh and last Harry Potter book and the magical saga ended in July with the eighth movie. However, fans are not ready to be done with the series and neither is the creator of the wizarding world, J.K. Rowling. Thirteen years since Scholastic published Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Rowling is releasing a new website to give fans more Potter. It's called, not surprisingly, Pottermore. "I'm still astonished and delighted by the response the stories met," Rowling said in a video on the site, which is geared toward fans of all ages who can "share, participate in and rediscover the stories." Rowling said she will be "joining in" on the magic as well to share information that she "has been…

Friday, July 15, 2011

Joe The Nerd

Thanks, J.K.

We watched our kids grow up with the "Harry Potter" series in print and film. It's cool watching them get into something that made them think and affected them in many positive ways.

Dear Ms. Rowling, Thank you for writing your series. Our daughter, Al, just got in from seeing the last filmed installment of your series. She moves through another rite of passage when she hits 16 in August. Last night, we were home base for the posse she runs with. Both boys and girls showed up at our place to get ready to be the first in line at the local multiplex. It felt like prom night, with parents dropping kids off.  It wasn’t gowns and tuxes, but plaid pleated skirts, wands and cloaks. We took the pictures of the whole crew on the back deck, just like when Al’s two older brothers would come by with their prom dates.  There was something really formal and fun about the whole thing.  My wife and I were front-end chauffeurs, taking …

'Deathly Hallows - Part 2' a Magical Way to Say Goodbye

The epic "Harry Potter" series comes to a close and definitely goes out on a high note.

It’s been 10 years since Chris Columbus’ painfully bland Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. The series has evolved over eight movies from quaint to delightfully dark and brooding, and the weight of J.K. Rowling’s tale has steadily grown with the characters and their target audience. As the films have gotten visibly darker so has the story—fascism, torture, murder, ethnic cleansing. It's not really kid’s movie stuff. But the Harry Potter movies really haven’t been kiddie fare since Chamber of Secrets. As the ads inform us, “It all ends here.” Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows - Part 2, which opens today in 2-D, 3-D and at select IMAX theaters, is a smashing ending to an epic series. Special effects brilliantly serve the story, making …

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