Harry Potter News

Icontest – Challenge One

May 12, 2008

Posted by: Doris

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Icontest – Challenge One Challenge 1 is a challenge which takes advantage of the great art of our new featured fan artist for the month of May,

New Games, Quizzes and BookMarks at Scholastic Harry Potter Site

May 11, 2008

Posted by: SueTLC

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Scholastic has updated their Harry Potter website with a few new things this Mother’s Day weekend. There are three new games including Polyjuice Pairs, Potter Swap, and Magical Matches. In addition to the already long list of fun quizzes, they’ve added a new Magnificent Mums quiz and a Nature Knowledge Quiz. Also recent are a …read more!

Happy Molly Weasley Day

May 11, 2008

Posted by: Melissa Anelli

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Happy Mother’s Day! It might as well be called Harry Potter Day, because as we learned in Deathly Hallows, Mother’s Day gets to the very core of what the series was all about. Say something nice to your mom today, show her all the great motherly moments in Harry Potter or simply re-enact Molly Weasley’s …read more!

Winners of our April Poetry Contest Announced

May 11, 2008

Posted by: EdwardTLC

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The winners of our April Poetry Contest have been chosen and are ready to be announced. As April was National Poetry month, we asked you to write a poem about the Harry Potter series. After many splendid entries, we now have the winners along with a few honorable mentions. Starting this month the first prize …read more!

JKR/WB vs. RDR Books Trial: Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law (pt 2)

May 11, 2008

Posted by: KristinTLC

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This post is part two of our post from earlier today, and includes our summary of the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law presented by JKR/WB in this PDF. Please see the prior post for Editor’s Notes. In addition, please also note that the JKR/WB document is considerably longer that the RDR Books document. …read more!

JKR/WB vs. RDR Books Trial: Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law (pt 1)

May 11, 2008

Posted by: KristinTLC

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We now have available at Leaky the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law documents from both Plaintiffs JKR/WB and Defendant RDR Books. These documents offer each side’s analysis of the trial and opinion on how it should conclude. The documents are in PDF format and total 10MB/200 pages. RDR Books’ Findings of Fact and …read more!

New High Res Photos from “Order of the Phoenix”

May 11, 2008

Posted by: SueTLC

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Even though we do not yet have any new “Half-Blood Prince” photos as of yet, we do have a bit of news on some new high res photos from “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.” Oclumencia let us know they have some high res (and quite large) still photos from the Ministry of …read more!

JKR/WB vs. RDR Books Trial: Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law

May 10, 2008

Posted by: KristinTLC

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NOTE: Post to be updated throughout the day. We now have two court documents from the JKR/WB vs RDR Books trial – the “Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law” for both the plaintiffs, JKR and WB, and the defendant, RDR books. The documents are in PDF form and total approximately 10MB and 200 …read more!

Whimsic Alley Seeks Young Harry Potter Fans for Interviews

May 10, 2008

Posted by: EdwardTLC

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Harry Potter apparel and product retailer Whimsic Alley has updated their website to announce an upcoming video interview call for fans of the novels aged 8 to 14 taking place in Santa Monica, California. On May 18th, Whimsic Alley will be interviewing Harry Potter fans of all kinds from that age group on their experiences …read more!

JKR/WB vs. RDR Books Trial: Tim Wu Leads Panel at Copyright Conference, Discusses Fan Response to Vander Ark

May 09, 2008

Posted by: KristinTLC

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Columbia Law Professor Tim Wu led a panel May 1st at OnCopyright 2008, a conference hosted by the Copyright Clearance Center. The panel focused on the JKR/WB vs RDR Books lawsuit, and more particularly on the response Harry Potter fans have had to Steve Vander Ark since it was announced the HP Lexicon would be …read more!



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