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Five years after Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy first set foot in Diagon Alley to buy their school supplies, the gray-eyed villain of his class has come a long way.

LONDON: Teenage hormones and dark magic create an explosive mix in the sixth instalment of the phenomenally successful Harry Potter film series, which has its world premiere in London on Tuesday.

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.

Peter Bradshaw: An entertaining picture, as comforting as nursery food and as devoid of artistic depth as a sports event Wednesday, 01 July 2009 Here we go again, back for more wizard adventures at Britain's most exclusive private school.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is located a few degrees east of Dorothy's Oz and a couple of degrees north of Alice's Wonderland.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, fourth in the fantasy franchise, is the most fun and the most fraught with conflict.

Thank goodness, thank Merlin's ghost, thank somebody for Kenneth Branagh. In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the too-long, too-faithful adaptation of the second J.K. Rowling book, the English actor arrives at Hogwarts School playing a vain, boastful charlatan of a professor.

One of the nice things about the Harry Potter movie series is that while the books keep getting longer, the movies do not.

Harry Potter, the teen wizard whose films have generated billions of dollars and become one of Hollywood's biggest franchises, is known for battling the evil Lord Voldemort.

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc on Monday denied allegations that author J.K. Rowling copied "substantial parts" of a book by another children's author when she wrote "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." Story on Reuters Get book trade news by email Subscribe for free to receive daily book trade headlines and breaking publishing news by email.

Sean Penn arrives at the 81st Annual Academy Awards held at Kodak Theatre on February 22, 2009 in Los Angeles, California.

Tajikistan News.Net Friday 19th June, 2009 The estate of little-known British author Adrian Jacobs has claimed JK Rowling's fourth novel 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' was copied from Jacobs' 1987 book 'The Adventures Of Willy The Wizard No 1: Livid Land'. Jacobs' died in 1997 without ever reading a 'Harry Potter' novel - " the first title ...

The Adventures Of Willy The Wizard No 1: Livid Land is a wonderful book wherein the protagonist possibly vanquishes evil by rubbing it incessantly with his magical buttock.

The estate of Adrian Jacobs is suing best-selling author J.K. Rowling over claims that the Harry Potter books allegedly copy Jacob's novel, "Willy The Wizard." According to the suit, "Willy" follows a child discovering he has magical powers and was published ten years before the first "Harry Potter" book was published and three years before Rowling ...

Home : Features : News : 'Harry Potter' Publisher Fighting Plagiarism Claim 'Harry Potter' Publisher Fighting Plagiarism Claim 16-Jun-2009 Written by: John Winn Lawsuit brought by estate of deceased author Bloomsbury Publishing LLC, The publishers of the popular "Harry Potter" series, are being taken to court in London for plagiarism, according to ...

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is accused of copying "substantial parts" of another author's work for the fourth book in her series, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." A A Reuters A A The Week in Pictures A soaked baseball fan, Pakistani war refugees and a newborn whale are among this week's noteworthy images from across the globe.

From The Matrix to Harry Potter, heroic fantasy is hot stuff. These modern epics tap into our frustrated impulse to be 21st-century knights - and may even help unleash the workaday hero inside each of us.

It is a classic rags-to-riches tale. In the mid-1990s, author J.K. Rowling was a single mother claiming state benefits and writing in Edinburgh cafes while her daughter napped.

DO YOU LOVE J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series? If so, I am sure you are eagerly awaiting the release of the movie version of the 'Half-Blood Prince.' In anticipation of its release, we will be showing the first five films based on Rowling's novels.

As the latest Harry Potter tale reaches store shelves, retailers hope to sell more than just books.