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Harry Potter and the 10 Years Later

WCityMike — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 07:05:45 -0800

Harry Potter and the Ten Years Later — episodes 1, 2, 3, and continuing. A good satiric edge, surprisingly good casting and portrayals, and some interesting (and I think probably correct) projections into the personal problems the Potter characters might run into as they age into their late 20s and early 30s.

I Ain't Afraid of No Pedeconferences

WCityMike — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 17:24:14 -0800

If Aaron Sorkin had written Star Wars, Avatar, Ghostbusters, Twilight, and Harry Potter.

How Harry Potter and the magical world of J.K. Rowling might begin the long process of reconciliation and reform.

blue_beetle — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:26:44 -0800

Post-Conflict Potter, living and rebuilding the world after Voldemort, by Foreign Policy Magazine.

Pottermore

lewedswiver — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:55:09 -0800

Seven days ago, a new YouTube channel teased the creation of a mysterious new website called Pottermore. Today, JK Rowling released details about the new site. Pottermore will be 1) the exclusive place to purchase Harry Potter e-books, 2) a Harry Potter interactive experience/social networking site of sorts, and 3) a (free) repository of many pages of back notes about the Harry Potter series, similar in content, different in form, and possibly replacing the existence of the Harry Potter encyclopedia long-teased by Rowling. Fans react.

The Worlds Biggest Harry Potter Fan

jpdoane — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:09:51 -0800

This guy is really into Harry Potter

Everybody make way for a pas de bourrée

ThePinkSuperhero — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:45:40 -0800

Did you like A Very Potter Musical? (previously) Well then, you'll probably want to catch A Very Potter Sequel, just premiered on YouTube after a special showing at Infinitus.

That's a long line

roomthreeseventeen — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:22:29 -0800

The long awaited Wizarding World of Harry Potter opened this morning at Universal's Islands of Adventure to much fanfare, including appearances by many of the movies' stars. The Twitter feed documenting the crowds indicates a six hour wait to get into the area. While some are heralding this as Universal's big break, others have concerns about the crowd control, and the reaction of ticket buyers who may be disappointed that this "theme park within a theme park" is small, crowded, and only has one new ride which may not be friendly to plus-sized riders.

Harry Potter and the Red Herring

jwells — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:02:22 -0800

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows recently leaked on a few torrent sites... or did it? Security measures taken included pallets of books protected by alarms, baited lawyers, and even delivery trucks with satellite tracking, which seems at odds with this UPS delivery truck stacked with loose boxes 5 days before they are to be delivered. A spokeswoman at Scholastic, the book's US publisher, said "she was aware of at least three different versions of the file 'that look very convincing' with what she described as 'conflicting content.'" So what's real and what's fake? We'll just have to wait and see.

Snog that Snape, girl!

metasonix — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:57:18 -0800

Anyone who has spent time browsing through Deviant Art has almost certainly run into the cartoons of a young Australian woman named Gemma Wilson. She is fond of Harry Potter, snakepeople and (occasionally) torture and hermaprodites. She has a fan club. And she has detractors. Make of this what you will.

Spoiling Harry Potter

Cool Papa Bell — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:55:30 -0800

Spoiling Harry Potter: Hacker claims to have spoiled the last Harry Potter book with a technique called spear phishing. "We make this spoiler to make reading of the upcoming book useless and boring ... It's amazing to see how much people inside the company have copies and drafts of this book." Let's see if we can discuss spoilers and spear phishing without actually spoiling anything here. Warning: The Wired link is safe, but it contains a link to the purported spoiler.

Harry Potter and the what?

barjo — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:40:44 -0800

So you say you want to know the name of the new Harry Potter book?

Harry Potter and Lord Wal-d-mart

cjoh — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:42:30 -0800

Harry Potter and Lord Wal-d-mart: The Late Night Players entertain us this friday: Harry Potter combats the low low prices of Wal-Mart.

harry potter inspires rock

alona — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 23:36:00 -0800

Harry and the Potters was the first wizard rock band but inspired other wizard rock bands such as Draco and the Malfoys, The Whomping Willows, The Dark Markers, Cousin Wizardface, The Hungarian Horntails, Bella's Love, The Prisoners Of Azkaban and Ginny and the Weasleys." also check out this, this, this, and this.

The Curious Affair of the Sock Puppet

robocop is bleeding — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:40:59 -0800

Like many internet communities, the Harry Potter fan community is a close knit one and prone to outbursts of drama and strife. But what happens when a single member is pulling the strings? This long account is about msscribe who through sock puppetry, trolling, and some flat out lies polarized online Potter fans for the past four years.

This country's full of wankers dressed in sheets, asylum f***ing seekers in our streets

tobyslater — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 10:17:57 -0800

Jihad, terrorism and asylum - in rhyme and iambic pentameter (small QT movie, some profanity) A Middle-Eastern chef and a xenophobic Northern English cook argue about war, bombs and asylum seekers - in the kind of flowing verse one might expect from Shakespeare. It's from British indie director Sally Potter and quite apposite, representing the kind of debates which are going on following the London bombings.

Sonorus!

Espoo2 — Sun, 30 Nov 2003 00:06:33 -0800

Harry Potter: The New Atlas Shrugged.

The Gospel According to Harry Potter.

mikrophon — Tue, 08 Oct 2002 08:47:38 -0800

The Gospel According to Harry Potter. Connie Neal thinks that she sees "glimmers of the Gospel" in the Harry Potter books. Not the most interesting attempt to counter the occult hysteria surrounding this book, but sure to stir up some hilarious controversy just the same.

As Harry Potter tops all box office records,

Rastafari — Sun, 18 Nov 2001 23:38:11 -0800

As Harry Potter tops all box office records, it seems that some parents don't want their kids to watch the film because some think it promotes witchcraft. Are separation of church and state arguments valid here, or are the parents a bunch of wet blankets?

baylink — Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:01:21 -0800

Aw, for the love of Kee-rist, can't anyone quit screwing with stuff?

Columbus plans to shoot parallel versions of the first film -- one for the U.S. market and one for Britain. His plan is to shoot two or three alternate sequences for each film and to give the British film the first novel's original British title, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone." The American film will be called, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."

mathowie — Thu, 06 Jul 2000 21:16:37 -0800

While I'm not a fan of Harry Potter books (yet - I'll get around to checking them out someday soon), I find it interesting to see some folks still strongly oppose the stories of sorcery, while it seems the average CNN.com reader doesn't see a problem with them (the poll is 97-3 as I write this). It seems that every few years, some fiction strikes the fancy of kids, and parents rally against it, even though it piques kids' imaginations and gets them reading. What's so wrong with Potter books?