Rupert Grint Appeared on Al Murray’s Happy Hour. He talked aboout all things Potter

The first picture of the trio from the Half-Blood Prince has emerged

And could that be the Half-Blood Prince’s Potion’s Book in Dan’s hand? O.o

It’s a scan so it’s not the greatest quality but hopefully we will get a better version soon

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It’s been reported that a scene in HBP has been filmed where Ron helped win the Quidditch Cup and Lavender runs up to kiss him while Hermione looks on with jealousy.That’s a new scene written for the Film, because in the book we never see how the Quidditch Cup Final plays out since Harry is detention with Snape because he sliced up Draco Malfoy with that Sectumsepra spell.

Also, they apparently put Lavender in GLASSES and she’ll have her long hair CURLED and blonde.
This is the second confirmed kissing scene that Rupert has had to do for HBP.
(late last month Emma confirmed that they’d filmed the first kissing scene between Ron and Lavender)

The character Katie Bell has been cut from HBP, a last minute decision by Director David Yates and Producer David Heyman. She is being replaced by Cho Chang when she gets cursed by that bhnecklace and nearly killed.
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Author JK Rowling has been honoured for outstanding achievement at the South Bank Show Awards and told how saying goodbye to Harry Potter was more painful than getting divorced.The multi-millionaire was teary-eyed as she accepted the prize.

Last year saw the publication of the seventh and final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

“It has been the worst break-up of my life - far worse than splitting up with any man,” Rowling, 42, told the audience at London’s Dorchester Hotel.

“But it has also been wonderful to stop and draw breath and think, ‘My God, look what’s happened with an idea I had 17 years ago on a train’.”

Director and actor Lord Attenborough presented the award. He joked that he would have loved a role in the Harry Potter films: “I’ve got a great complaint against the recipient. I joined Equity in 1941 and I have been a regular member ever since, therefore I am due a certain amount of respect in these circumstances.

“I think I must be the only English actor of my generation who has got absolutely bugger all out of this extraordinary series that has been read by millions and made into movies.

“Surely there must have been something I could have played? Even just a few lines here and there? Don’t think I didn’t try!”

Rowling joked that he could take the role of Albus Dumbledore in the next film, saying: “Michael Gambon will shortly be having a hideous accident.”

The Harry Potter books have sold more than 400 million copies worldwide and earned the author an estimated £545 million fortune. She wrote the first book while a struggling single mother in Edinburgh, having split from first husband Jorge Arantes.

Source: http://ukpress.google.com/

Irial & Amy

In some bookshops the seventh and last edition Harry Potter has appeared on shelves before the set release time of midnight Saturday, January 26.According to Media Rodzina, the book’s publisher in Poland, it can not do anything to prevent presales of the latest Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

The Polish Press Agency (PAP) reports that Bronisław Kledzik from Media Rodzina said the agreement between the publisher and bookshops about the sale of the latest Harry Potter is a gentlemen’s agreement.

Media Rodzina has also donated editions of the final Harry Potter tome to public libraries up and down the country.

PAP reports that the new Harry Potter book has 784 pages in the Polish edition, with 650.000 having been published for the release in over five hundred bookstores around the country tonight.

There are just under five million copies of Harry Potter in Polish, with over four hundred million worldwide. The novels by J.K. Rowling have been translated into over fifty languages. (jb)

source: theNews.pl

For more details, check out some of the Harry Potter Polish websites at the below links.

deptajem.pl hpnews.pl harry-potter.net.pl/

J. K. Rowling blocked the Finnish publication of her latest Harry Potter novel on paper from Finland because it lacked the ecologically friendly certification she favors, Agence France-Presse reported. Her Finnish publisher, Tammi, said that Ms. Rowling insisted that it import paper certified by the Forest Stewardship Council as being derived from wood grown and harvested in a way that promotes sustainable forest development. Sinikka Partanen, a spokeswoman for Tammi, said the first Potter books in Finnish were printed on recycled paper. “This time it’s a more specific demand,” she said. The Finnish-language version of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” is due on March 7.

Source: nytimes