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See
HPP's exclusive Matt Lewis (Neville Longbottom) interview
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and see what he has to say to HPP visitor's here! |
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Here's the news on everything Harry Potter!
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The Stats and Best Seller Lists for the Harry Potter Books
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A few stats and best seller lists have been released, and Harry Potter is dominating.
Amazon have released their pre-order numbers on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. By midnight, July 20th, Amazon.com had more than 2.2 million pre-orders worldwide (the previous record was 1.5 million). Orders in the U.S. were 1.4 million, and 1.3 million of those were delivered on the 21st. That came out to 18 tons of the seventh book being processed to more than 43,000 zip codes!
Additionally, all of the Harry Potter books are within the top 16 of the best seller lists. Click more to see where our favorite books are on the charts. |
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Bloomsbury Plans for Harry Potter Box Set
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Bloomsbury, the United Kindom Harry Potter publisher, has announced that on October 1, they are planning to release a box set of all seven Harry Potter books.
The BBC also released an article stating that they are now looking for "new authors". Click here to read the whole article.
Thanks to Mugglenet! |
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Win Harry Potter Book Shelf
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Ever wanted a Harry Potter bookshelf? - literally? Well, Abebooks.com have started a new contest that asks for your best Potter poetry. The winner will win a bookshelf that is sculptured purely out of the UK Harry Potter books.
To enter the contest, we want you to compose a poem dedicated to Harry Potter. It can be anything from a limerick to a haiku to a love poem to an elegy to a sonnet. Be creative - the finest poem about the Boy Wizard will win and we'll also publish the best ones on AbeBooks. There is no limitation on length. You can enter up to three times separately but each entry must contain just one poem.
The deadline to enter is July 6th with the winner being announced on July 10th. Good luck! |
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High Security for Deathly Hallows Release
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Bloomsbury, the UK publisher of the Harry Potter books, are planning very strict security measures for the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The books are to be delivered to stores only one day prior to the release date of July 21st. They'll be in crates with steel chains. Security guards will be used at the printing plants. Amazon's online store has stated they'll store their copies in warehouses at secret locations. |
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Completion of Book 6 Revealed Two Years Ago Today
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The completion of the sixth Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was announced to us exactly two years ago. The Room of Requirement opened on J. K. Rowling's website on December 20, 2005, to reveal a Christmas tree and presents. From there, we had to go through many different steps, answering riddles, and figuring out how to get the gift we all wanted - the news that the sixth book was complete!
Alas, so far, we have not received this gift for the seventh book, though many of us hold out hope.
Jo did, however, give us a recent update, which we are thankful for!
If you did not get the chance to be a part of that fun Christmas puzzler two years ago, then you can see how it went on our J. K. Rowling website update link. |
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Kids Vote: Pigs, Pigeons, Dragons, and Potter
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Scholastic held their annual online poll for "Kids' Pick For 2007." More than 2,800 kids voted! Here are the winners:
Kindergarten - 1st Grade: Don't Let the Pigeon Stay up Late! by Mo Willems
2nd - 3rd Grade: Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
4th - 6th Grade: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
6th Grade and Up: Eragon by Christopher Paolini (in theatres this Friday)
Thanks Joni! |
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HBP Favourite Young Adult Book
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Last month the American Library Associataion asked teen readers to vote for their favoutite book as part of the Teen Read Week. The winners have been announced and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has topped the list. |
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The Age: HBP Audio Book Review
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The Age has compiled a review for several audio books to be listened on a road trip and they have an insightful review of the Half-Blood Prince audio book read by Stephen Fry. Here is an excerpt.
It's captivating stuff in Fry's hands and he is terrific in the way he can convey the difference between the nastiness, say, of Draco Malfoy and the truly black evil of some of the death eaters. He's also good at getting the heartiness and bounce of all the school stuff and all the girl/boy stuff which, in this book, tends to hover around Harry's white hot feelings for Ginny Weasley. |
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