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Warner Bros Shop designing new HP Towel
Sunday, January 17th, 2010Warner Bros shop is hosting their 2nd annual Harry Potter Towel Design Survey. Last year they hosted this and the Marauder’s Map Towel won. This year the Warner Bros Shop has 3 designs to choose from: The Hogwarts Crest, all 4 of the house crests, and a towel with the Hogwarts Crest and the 4 house crests. The survey [...]
DM Presents: Potter Mania
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010Darkmark proudly introduces you to its latest event: HP Mania; rediscovering Harry Potter!
A two week long event starring on our forums that takes you back to those very special first days of fandom! How long have you been a fan? What events do you remember best? Past signatures and avatars parade the forums once more! [...]
American Library Association announces a touring Harry Potter exhibit
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009The American Library Association announced yesterday that a Harry Potter exhibit will be touring 12 libraries in the U.S. The tour will begin in September 2009 and will end in November 2010, therefore it will stay in each location for 4 weeks. The following are the 12 libraries that were chosen to hold the exhibit:
The [...]
Sweepstakes to win autographed Harry Potter DVDs
Sunday, June 7th, 2009J-14 Magazine is having a contest for Harry Potter fans in the U.S. to win a Harry Potter DVD box set, which has the first 5 movies in the series. The case itself was autographed by four stars of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley), Bonnie Wright [...]
New Harry Potter Beach Towel
Monday, June 1st, 2009WBshop has announced that on June 22nd, 2009 they will release a new Harry Potter beach towel. The image on the towel was voted upon in a poll and this design received 70% of the 11,000 votes.
Thanks to SnitchSeeker!
Daniel Radcliffe wins 2 Broadway.com Audience Awards
Sunday, May 24th, 2009As previously posted, Daniel Radcliffe was nominated for two Broadway.com Audience Awards for his work in the broadway play, Equus. The winners were announced today, and Daniel Radcliffe won both the awards he was nominated for: Favorite Leading Actor in a Broadway Play and Favorite Male Breakthrough Performance. Also Equus won in its category of Favorite Broadway [...]
Emma Watson on Maxim’s Hot 100
Monday, May 11th, 2009Emma Watson has once again made it onto Maxim’s Hot 100 list. For 2009 she ranked at # 82, were as in 2008 she ranked # 94. Congrats Emma!
Harry Potter’s Hermione set the Internet ablaze just by turning 18 and completely incinerated it by stating she’d do a nude scene for director Bernardo Bertolucci. (We’re [...]
Scene from Philosopher’s/Sorcerer’s Stone Voted Best Movie Moment of All Time
Friday, April 10th, 2009A scene from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s/Sorcerer’s Stone has been voted, upon by 2,000 adults and children in a poll taken by Oreo Cookie Brand, to be the best movie moment of all time. The scene that was chosen from this movie was the scene where Daniel Radcliffe playing Harry Potter was embarking on [...]
Muggle Version of Quidditch
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009Ferndale Comprehensive School in South Wales have created their own version of the Wizarding World’s favourite sport, Quidditch. The school has adapted most of the game apart from the flying of course. The game has been described as a mix of dodgeball and handball. Differences between this game and J.K Rowling’s Quidditch is that there [...]
Harry Potter fan tries to get a role in DH
Saturday, February 28th, 2009News has come to light that die-hard HP fan, Brent Klovstad, 21, from California has recently travelled to Leavesden Studios to try to get a small role in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which has started filming.
Since he has got to the studios he has kept a 12 hour watch on the [...]
Emma Watson updated her official website
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009On Monday, January 19th, Emma Watson updated her official website on her E.M.S. She states in her update that she had just come home from a vacation in Cuba. She also talks about being nervous because she will be taking the SATs on Saturday so she can apply to some American schools. [...]
Daniel Radcliffe: Broadway Star of the Year!
Thursday, January 1st, 2009Broadway.com just recently announced that their Star of the Year, as voted on by readers, was Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe. He was nominated for his performance in Equus and won. Upon hearing that he had been voted Star of the Year, Daniel said that it was really cool to even be nominated and win against such huge [...]
Vander Ark At It Again
Saturday, December 6th, 2008Vander Ark is back, and he’s moving forward with the publishing of an edited down Harry Potter encyclopedia. In September, a New York judged ruled in favour of J.K. Rowling, and publishing was halted on Vander Ark’s previous encyclopedia.
“We learned a lot at the trial about what was acceptable, what would follow the fair-use guidelines,” [...]
J.K. Rowling ‘blessing’ a new Potter book
Friday, November 7th, 2008J.K. Rowling, who as we all know won a lawsuit earlier this year about the publishing of a Potter Lexicon, she has now blessed another Potter book written by a superfan Melissa Anelli, who runs the Leaky Cauldron website. In fact, J.K. Rowling wrote the forward to Anelli’s book titled: “Harry, a History: The True Story of a [...]
Azkatraz is coming!
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008HPEF (Harry Potter Education Fanon) is hosting their yearly Harry Potter conference, which this year is AZKATRAZ. It’s a conference, for all Harry Potter fans that includes Podcasts, a Pajama Party, the Prison Break Ball, the [...]





