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The Seattle Times makes mention of both Harry Potter for Grownups and Nimbus 2003, the first “Harry Potter” symposium for adults, which “will be a hybrid of an academic conference with literary presentations and a Star Trek-like convention where participants play a version of Quidditch,” in its article about adult fans of what are normally …read more!

It seems that the Indian city of Pune is feeling the frenzy of the boy wizard as pre-orders continue to rise.

As filming on PoA continues, another day of rain hampers production in Glencoe. However some interesting mentions of a certain executioner visiting Hagrid’s Hut.

In today’s Washington Post, Hank Steuver essays about The Matrix, and also brings in mention of some of the other recent blockbuster films which delve into philosophy, metathinking, meme creation and “the superior feeling that nobody gets the [story] but you.” The Harry Potter children — a rabid generation of meta-consumers, far too smart for …read more!

Law Professor Peter Yu has an article at Law.com about some of the recent – and older – court disputes surrounding infringment of the Harry Potter series; Yu gives legal analysis of the arguments on both sides in the Tanya Grotter situations, as well as the Chengdu, China-published fakes and the vintage-2000 Claire Field matter, …read more!

FT.com has a very long but good look at preparations for Book 5.

Check it out here! An excellent piece about filming on Potter three, by Martin Barber. Quotage from Chris: His style is completely different to Chris Columbus’, he’s going for a real dramatic, tension building to a climax kind of film which I think is going to be perfect for Potter three. I think the way …read more!

One of the teenage boys in the plot to sell stolen chapters of OotP to a tabloid wrote a 3-page apology to the author says Norfolk’s Eastern Daily Press.

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