J.K. Rowling News

In my short 18 years on this earth, I have watched a lot of movies. Probably thousands.

More and more, the titles showing up in movie previews are familiar -- you've seen them on your bookshelf.

By Scott Reid CINEWORLD is hoping new releases such as Sherlock Holmes and St Trinian's 2 will bring some sparkle to its full-year results.

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The similarities are there - right down to a scar on the forehead. But the biggest thing they share are eleven letters spelling out two short names.

January - Y2K bug fails to happen - BBC's reality tv show ' Castaways ' begins recording - White Teeth by Zadie Smith published, goes on to win the Guardian First Book Award February - Flooding in Mozambique kills hundreds and displaces more than a million people.

Harry Potter fans will have the chance to bid for rare and special edition books about the boy wizard at an auction tomorrow.

A former Street schoolboy who auctioned off his rare first edition of a Harry Potter book for 7,200 to fund his university degree has been found dead in his room.

Boy wizard Harry Potter is back in cinemas later this month with the sixth installment of the movie franchise, and another box office bonanza looks assured for the Warner Bros.

A student who auctioned off his rare first edition of a Harry Potter book for 9,000 to fund his university degree has been found dead in his room.

Agua Caliente Elementary School, sixth grade. Age: 12. Parents' names: Jeff and Stacie Mockbee Favorite class: Math.

4. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling Fun and light, particularly when contrasted to later entries in the series, your plane ride may give you just the opportunity you need to rediscover the first entry in the unprecedentedly popular Potter series.

At The Library Submitted by Mark McLaughlin on 2009-09-21.   "Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine," a traveling exhibition opening at CCSU's Burritt Library on October 6, 2009, uses materials from the National Library of Medicine to explore Harry Potter's magical world and its roots in Renaissance traditions.

Ann Donald: In May, Quagga Books in Stellenbosch sold one of the rarest modern first editions around: JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

Daniel Radcliffe as J.K. Rowling's wizard hero. The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the hotly anticipated new Florida theme park, will open in the spring and allow visitors to explore Hogwarts Castle, buy Quidditch equipment and drink Butterbeer.

A SIGNED first edition of the second Harry Potter novel is set to fetch 2,000 at auction - because of a touching note inside from JK Rowling.

GILLIAM RELIEVED HE WASN'T PART OF POTTER 'FACTORY' 2009-09-08 03:00:08 - TERRY GILLIAM is relieved he was snubbed by studio bosses as a director for the first HARRY POTTER movie - because he would hate to work in a film "factory". The former Monty Python legend was J.K. Rowling's first choice to helm Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in ...

Peak-time repeat of The Goblet of Fire wins slot with more than 5 million viewers, trouncing Dragons' Den and Big Brother Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: attracted a 24% share of the audience ITV1 gave over most of peak time to a repeat of a Harry Potter movie last night, Wednesday 2 September, with The Goblet of Fire winning its slot with 5.3 ...

It wasn't only Naperville teens who craved fantasy books this summer. Two authors -- Stephenie Meyer and J. K. Rowling -- made the top 10 lists of books read by both teens and adults in the Naperville Public Library's Summer Reading Program.

Published: Saturday, August 29, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, August 30, 2009 at 5:41 a.m. "Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire," by J.K. Rowling Click to enlarge Cassie Music is reading 'Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire,' by J.K. Rowling.