Order of the Phoenix DVD information
Various details concerning the upcoming Order of the Phoenix DVD release are slowly starting to emerge.The Movie Informer has received what looks to be the front and back cover the 2-disc Special Edition DVD. Check it out right here! The back lists several bonus features, including:- Additional Scenes- Conversations with the Cast- Reflections on the Fifth Film- The Noble House of Black- A New Order- Ministry Mysteries- Flight of the Phoenix- Theatrical Trailers- EA Game DemoWhile this picture of the front and back cover do look pretty promising, this is still not confirmed by Warner Brothers. We're working on confirming all of the aforementioned details.Last month at the US premiere of the film, Emerson and I asked director David Yates how many deleted scenes we could expect on DVD. His answer falls in line with an update at the British Board of Film Classification's website, which lists 10 minutes worth of deleted and extended scenes to be included on the DVD. Thanks to Leaky for this.As for a release date, rumors are currently circulating that we can expect to see it in mid-November (many sites report November 12th in the UK). We'll be sure to update you as soon as we hear more!

ALERT: JKRowling.com's Room of Requirement door is OPEN!

'Order of the Phoenix' wins 'Teen Choice' award
AUGUST 26, 2007 at 9:36 PM
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Teen People magazine's Teen Choice 2007 awards show earlier tonight in the U.S. and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix won the award for Choice Summer Movie - Drama/Action Adventure.
The movie was up against Fantastic 4: Rise of The Silver Surfer, Live Free or Die Hard, Transformers, and The Bourne Ultimatum.

Harry Potter to be turned into musical?
Monday, August 27 2007, 15:49 BST
By Kimberley Dadds

Theatre producers are searching for an actor to take on the role of Harry Potter in a West End musical.A script has been in the works to turn J.K. Rowling's hit books into a stage version with singing and dancing.A theatre insider said: "The musical has the potential to be huge. You are already off to a head start with the most popular book of recent times. Everyone loves the characters and the mythical world Rowling has invented."The difficulty is condensing the seven books into a manageable show. They are exploring various ideas. One possibility is to tell the whole story. Another is to just take a single plot."The plan is for spectacular flying scenes, live Quidditch and big showdowns with Voldemort."

Isn't this the cutest. I found it creative and full of imagination. Thought everyone would get a kick out of it. Professor T. Picture found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgedthompson/862060018/

DO THE BIRTHDAYS NEVER STOP?

TODAY IS ACTOR RUPERT GRINTS BIRTHDAY, HE IS TURNING 19 TODAY AND WITH THIS COMING YEAR PROFESSOR B HAS SEVERAL WISHES FOR HIM. #1 THAT HE WILL CUT HIS HAIR SO THAT HE ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE A BOY, AND #2 HE WILL WEAR ACTUAL DRESS ATTIRE TO PREMIERE'S RATHER THAN A SUIT JACKET WITH JEANS. WHO KNOWS WHETHER MY BIRTHDAY WISHES FOR HIM WILL COME TRUE BUT I HOPE HE HAS A FANTASTIC YEAR NONE THE LESS. LOVE FROM PROFFESSOR B SPLATS ;)

BIRTHDAY WISHES AND SWEATER DREAMS!

SO THIS BIRTHDAY WISH IS FOR OUR LEAST FAVORITE (BUT STILL GOOD) WEASLEY FAMILY MEMBER PERCY WEASLEY WE AT OHNL WISH A VERY HEART FELT AND VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HIS BIRTHDAY IS TODAY; AUGUST 22nd. HE IS TURNING 31.

Another birthday

Today is actress Evanna Lynches who plays Luna Lovegood birthday, she is turning 16.

More Record break sales news

We all know that Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows and that the hard back book sold 8.3 million copies in the first 24 hours, but did you know that the audiobook copy sold 225, 000 copies in the first 2 days. We are talking a lot of cassettes and CD's. The CD version alone is 17 disks long. Both version selling at $80 an audiobook. Thats about $18, ooo, ooo in sells for the audiobooks and between $149,400,000 and $282, 200, 000 for the books. The books sold for between $18 - $34 each. Pretty impressive isn't it...... Professor T

New Page

Mugglenet.com has created a new page especially for news about the Harry Potter theme park here is the link http://www.mugglenet.com/wizardingworld.shtml

Harry Potter Theme Park

An article published in an Orlando newspaper is reporting that Warner Brothers and Universal Studios have reached a deal to have a targeted realease date of between December 15th, 2009 and June 30, 2010. If this be true that means that we could have just over 2 years until our ultimate Harry Potter fantasy comes true (well for me it is my 2nd since my 1st is being Mrs. Neville Longbottom but i am getting off subject). We had better get our tickets and our time off as soon as possible proffessor T.

Happy Birthday

J.K. has updated her website to wish Ginny Weasley Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday to our favorite quidditch player.

Guess Who?

We know her as the girl with the many personalities, loves to be cruel, totally sadistic, yet strangly interesting. Who am i talking about you ask? Bellatrix Lestrange of course, now your wondering why i went through this whole post right, well i'll tell you; People.com is reporting today that quirky actress Helana Bonam Carter who plays Bella in the 5th movie is expecting her second child with her equally quirky boyfriend director Tim Burton.

So i found this on a website, this is the Harry Potter book covers for book 3 from france and book 7 from germany, I just thought it was interesting how different the country's art styles are.

Deathly Hallows quiz, can u pass it?

So i was on leaky cauldron and i found that there is a Deathly Hallows quiz, i have no clue who created it but it looks challenging and interesting, tell me how ya do! the link is :http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/8/6/cbbc-newsround-deathly-hallows-quiz

Amazon posts final tally of Book 7 pre-orders

Amazon.com has released its final numbers of pre-orders for the last Harry Potter novel. By midnight on July 20, more than 2.2 million Deathly Hallows books were ordered beforehand throughout the world on Amazon, exceeding the previous record of 1.5 million, formerly held by Half-Blood Prince. 1.75 books per second were being sold on its busiest advanced order day. In the United States alone, they took in over 1.4 million pre-orders, "making the book the company's largest new product release ever." 2.2 million copies that is a crazy amount!

Interviews with Ginny, Luna & Neville

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Interviews with Bonnie Wright, Evanna Lynch and Matthew Lewis

By Joanne Mace

Sixteen-year-old BONNIE WRIGHT plays Ron's younger sister, Ginny Weasley.

As well as all of the Harry Potter films, Bonnie has starred in two television productions; Agatha Christie; a Life in Pictures in which she played the young Agatha Christie and as Sarah Robinson in Stranded.

Bonnie also plays the guitar, saxophone, takes ballet and contemporary dance and sings. She loves art, English, listening to music, watching films, surfing, cycling and playing football, hockey and tennis.

Q: What has it been like to step more into the limelight as Ginny has become more prominent?

In the first few books, she was the little sister of the Weasley family, but in the later books, she comes through more on her own.

It's been more fun doing this film as Ginny's character's developed. The six of us go through to the Ministry of Magic and it was really interesting to be a part of. Ginny's a bit more confident - I have definitely enjoyed that.

I started when I was nine and I'm sixteen now. It's nine months at a time from the beginning of shooting to when it comes out and I think I enjoy it better now because we've grown up together and when we're filming it's a really relaxed atmosphere. We're going to start the sixth film at the beginning of September.

When we all come back into the next film it's like coming back from the summer term, we're all kind of like, oh, you've grown. We all keep in contact when we're not filming. Different people live in different parts of England but we let each other know what we're up to at school and things.

 

Q: What's good about being a Weasley?

A: We have a Christmas scene in Grimauld place and it's quite a dark atmosphere but our family brings a bit of life into it, some colour. I think the humour in the Weasley family brings things more alive.

Julie Walters, who plays Mrs Weasley is really kind of open and friendly towards all of us - she likes to have that family ring around us all. She's bubbly on set.

 

SHY and softly spoken 14 year-old EVANNA LYNCH plays Luna Lovegood, the free spirited, but fiercely loyal friend to Harry and determined member of Dumbledore's Army.

Evanna flew from her home near Dublin and travelled to London to come face to face with 15,000 other young hopefuls at an open audition.

But casting director Fiona Weir knew as soon as she saw her that "there was only one Luna". And just a few short weeks later, Evanna joined the production in the role.

When not filming, Evanna enjoys spending time at home, particularly with her family pets, which include a cat called Luna and a kitten named Dumbledore.

Q: What was it like to be a fan and then be on the set?

A: It was this feeling the whole time like I shouldn't be here among all these stars, these professionals. I was trying to keep my distance because I wanted to watch everyone. They want you to be at home and be part of it, and it became normal very quickly. I know I had been prepared, thinking, it's going to be like this, but that was more of a fantasy.

I was a bundle of nerves. I didn't expect that because during the screen test, I was fine, I was ready. I thought I'd be holding everyone up because I didn't know the ropes, but you do a few takes and got used to it.

Q: What was it about Luna that made you think, that's the part for me'.

A: It was just because she was happy, she's got everything sorted out, she's kind of like Dumbledore - she doesn't need anyone. She's happy being free. I wish I was as free as that.

Watching the movies, I always thought it would be so cool to be in Harry Potter and to make that your job, but before Order of the Phoenix, I didn't know who I'd be so I thought I'll just watch.

Then 2003, 21st of June, that was her - I wanted to go for Luna. I'm not one to sit around and wait for fate to do things so I got my friends and made a tape. They played Harry and Ron - they were very good about it, very patient - and I sent that away. That never came of anything because they can't deal with individual applications because they get so many but I did get a letter the same day I went on Mugglenet and there was a post saying open auditions for Luna Lovegood.

Q: J K Rowling knows you from your fan letters and has apparently said that she thinks you'll be great in the part - that must be a thrill?

A: If she's happy with you playing one of her characters, that's an honour. She still hasn't seen it, she'd just going from meeting me so I'm really scared. I'm always picturing the moment after she's seen it and I've had nightmares where she just walks away. I don't want to know what the Potter fans think of me - there's always going to be someone who won't like it - and that'll just upset me. If I'm happy with it, it just matters if I've done my little vision of Luna.

 

LEEDS native 16 year-old MATTHEW LEWIS reprises his role as Neville Longbottom in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Matthew has been acting since he was just five years old after joining a performing arts club. He won the role of Neville after an open casting call was held in his hometown.

Matthew has previously featured in a number of television series' including; Heartbeat, City Central, Where the Heart Is, Sharpe, Emmerdale, Dalziel & Pascoe and Some Kind Of Life...

Q: Having just spoken to Evanna, I have to ask you first about the wand incident with Helena.

A: We were doing a scene in the Ministry of Magic where she's holding the character of Neville hostage and Helena plays the character really well, being sadistic and twisted about it. She was moving the wand about on my head, just teasing me and I'm pulling away in fear. She put it straight into my ear and the doctor had to have a look at it and I was deaf for two days in that ear which was pretty weird. She was very apologetic and I can hear fine now!

It was fun - I have always enjoyed playing Neville because he's been that comic relief in the film, and I love making people laugh. This year I got to do that and also a lot of emotion and drama when he talks to Harry about his parents. To not only be working harder and be in more scenes, but also the diverse nature of the work was a lot of fun. I hope it carries on up to the seventh film.

Q: Given that you're obviously quite a dude (Matthew looks very different from Neville in the flesh, much more trendy) is it fun to play a character who's very different to you in real life?

A: It's kind of strange because I was never really bullied at school. I was pretty confident and I've never shyed away from much but a lot of people have come up to me and said that they were bullied at school and him playing Neville has influenced them a lot in their lives and helped them out. So that's given me great inspiration to carry on doing the job right.

I don't want to just say I'm a natural (he laughs self-deprecatingly), but the books are so well written that you don't have to do much research. You can just read how Rowling wrote it down and perform it that way.

It's surprising how many fans say he's their favourite character. It's really cool to think that you're playing these people's favourite character who they have ingrained in their head from the book. For them to say you're doing it right, is superb.

I'm pretty lucky in that I don't look anything like Neville, at least, I don't think I do. Around Leeds, people recognise me. But I can still go shopping. I kind of get the best of both worlds.

 

Q: Do you think Neville's going to die?

A: A lot of people have come up to me and said, you're going to die mate'. Cheers! But I like to think he'll be there fighting to the end. If he does die, I'd like it to be really heroic, saving someone else's life.

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JK Said The Future was Bright

Rowling said the world was a sunnier, happier place after the seventh book and the death of Voldemort.
Harry Potter, who always voiced a desire to become an Auror, or someone who fights dark wizards, was named head of the Auror Department under the new wizarding government headed by his friend and ally, Kingsley Shacklebolt.
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His wife, Ginny Weasley, stuck with her athletic career, playing for the Holyhead Harpies, the all-female Quidditch team. Eventually, Ginny left the team to raise their three children - James, Albus and Lily - while writing as the senior Quidditch correspondent for the wizarding newspaper, the Daily Prophet.
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Harry's best friend Ron Weasley joined his brother, George, as a partner at their successful joke shop, Weasley's Wizard Wheezes.
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Hermione Granger, Ron's wife and the third person of the series' dark wizard fighting trio, furthered the rights of subjugated creatures, such as house elves, in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures before joining the magical law enforcement squad. The couple had two children - Rose and Hugo.
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Luna Lovegood, Harry's airily distracted friend with a love for imaginary animals who joins the fight against Voldemort in the Order of the Phoenix, becomes a famous wizarding naturalist who eventually marries the grandson of Newt Scamander, author of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them."
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And what Muggle, or non-wizard, song would have been played at the funeral of Albus Dumbledore, the most brilliant and talented wizard the world had ever known?
"Surely 'I Did It My Way' by Frank Sinatra," Rowling told her fans, referring to the song "My Way," written by Paul Anka but popularized by Sinatra, among other singers.
As the chat wrapped up, Rowling thanked readers for their loyalty to the series.
"What can I say? Thank you so much for sticking with me, and with Harry, for so long. You have made this an incredible journey for Harry's author."
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This was copied from: Rowling tells fans what happened to characters after final Harry Potter installment By Lindsay Toler - Associated Press

The Pardoner's Tale By Geoffrey Chaucer

In her interview JK Says" Rowling said in the online chat the hallows were in part inspired by "The Pardoner's Tale," one of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" about greed and death."

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CANTERBURY TALES

THE PARDONER'S TALE

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Link to read the whole Tale: http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/gchaucer/bl-gchau-can-pard.htm

UpComing Birthday

Rupert Grint AKA RONALD BILIUS WEASLEY turns 19 on August 24th. Happy Birthday Rupert. We won't be celebrating RONALD's Birthday until March 1st.

Very Interesting

There are about 511,000,000 links on the internet that come up when you type in HARRY POTTER and 302,000 for NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM.
4,210,000 for HERMIONE GRANGER, 1,750,000 for RON WEASLEY, 8,160,000 for HOGWARTS andn 1,370,000 for DOBBY.

a couple of interesting facts

So i was on my favorite harry site mugglenet.com and i saw that in the first 10 days that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was out it sold over 11.5 MILLION copies. The 7 books to date have sold over 350 Million copies worldwide.