Wizard News: The most complete online source for the latest Harry Potter News and Lord of the Rings News http://www.wizardnews.com en-us Wizard News (rss@wizardnews.com) Copyright © 2002-2008 David Haber. All rights reserved. 2008-05-09T08:29:34-08:00 http://www.wizardnews.com/channels/harry-potter-jk-rowling.html#20080509082716 JK Rowling is one of 13 authors producing a "storycard" written on a blank A5 sheet as part of a charity auction in London. Proceeds from the June 10 event, called "What's Your Story?" will be donated to English PEN and Dyslexia Action, said an e-mailed statement by Waterstone's. Wizard News 2008-05-09T08:27:16-08:00 http://www.wizardnews.com/channels/harry-potter-movies.html#20080509082532 Julie Walters has apparently confessed that she isn't an avid reader of the Harry Potter books. The Bafta winning actress, who plays Ron Weasley's mother Molly in the film adaptations, revealed she simply flicked through one of the books to check her character wasn't going to be killed off before the next movie, according to the Daily Express. Wizard News 2008-05-09T08:25:32-08:00 http://www.wizardnews.com/channels/harry-potter.html#20080509082344 Hannah Matus, a junior in political science, said "Harry Potter and English Comedy," a special topics English course she is taking this quarter, took her by surprise. "I expected to be talking about the plot setup and prevalent themes, but it's actually so much more than that." Wizard News 2008-05-09T08:23:44-08:00 http://www.wizardnews.com/channels/harry-potter.html#20080509082132 On a Thursday evening, the athletic fields outside Lincoln Tower are filled with students running around with brooms and pelting each other with rubber balls. No, this isn't a story for the police blotter. It's the opening practice of the Ohio State's Quidditch Club. Wizard News 2008-05-09T08:21:32-08:00 http://www.wizardnews.com/channels/harry-potter-jk-rowling.html#20080509081923 J.K. Rowling and Warners Bros. have had a generally tolerant attitude toward the amateur fiction, home movies, and online guides created by Harry Potter's fan base. So some were surprised last fall when Rowling and Warner sued to stop RDR Books from publishing Steven Vander Ark's The Harry Potter Lexicon. Wizard News 2008-05-09T08:19:23-08:00 http://www.wizardnews.com/channels/harry-potter-movies.html#20080507072507 Fascinating new video from the BBC of an aerial view really behind the scenes of the outdoor sets of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince at Leavesden Studios, including The Burrow, Privett Drive, the large courtyard inside Hogwarts, Hagrid's hut and a train station. Wizard News 2008-05-07T07:25:07-08:00 http://www.wizardnews.com/channels/harry-potter-jk-rowling.html#20080507072317 J.K. Rowling has won a landmark privacy ruling in her battle to ban publication of covert long lens pictures taken of her son when he was 18 months old. She said, "We embarked on this lawsuit not because we were seeking special privileges for our children but because we wanted them to grow up, like their friends, free from unwarranted intrusion into their privacy." Wizard News 2008-05-07T07:23:17-08:00 http://www.wizardnews.com/channels/harry-potter-movies.html#20080507071927 The nominations for the MTV Movie Awards were announced on Tuesday. In one of the show's most popular categories, the nominees for Best Kiss include Daniel Radcliffe and Katie Leung for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Viewers can vote for all winners online at MTV.com through May 23. The live ceremony will be broadcast on June 1. Wizard News 2008-05-07T07:19:27-08:00 http://www.wizardnews.com/channels/harry-potter-movies.html#20080507071558 Warner Home Video's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix leads the nominations for Entertainment Merchants Assn.'s Home Entertainment Awards, garnering four nominations. The Home Entertainment Awards will be held June 24 in Las Vegas. Wizard News 2008-05-07T07:15:58-08:00 http://www.wizardnews.com/channels/harry-potter.html#20080507071145 Armed with only duct tape and imagination, Carleton, Minnesota, students easily overcame their lack of levitation to bring the game of Quidditch to life."We read through the Quidditch rule book we got from Middlebury College. They have a Quidditch league, and their rule book has 20 pages. We managed to condense that down to four pages for our purposes." Wizard News 2008-05-07T07:11:45-08:00