In America, Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving and marks the start of the holiday shopping season. Potter fans have some extra reasons to be excited for tomorrow's Black Friday specials:

- At Walmart, all five Potter films in the Blu-Ray format are on sale all day Friday for $10 each! They're normally priced at around $20 each.

- Amazon also has $10 Potter Blu-Rays. You can see them all in their Potter store. You can also pre-order the Half-Blood Prince Blu-Ray for the killer price of $15.99!

- If you register for Infintius 2010 on Friday you'll receive a $10 gift certificate to use at the Infinitus merchandise table during the convention. Be sure to put "MuggleNet" in the referral box so they know who sent you!

- Shop now at WBShop.com to receive nice discounts on all kinds of Harry Potter products!

If you see any Potter Black Friday deals, leave them in the comments of this news post! We'll add them to the list above.

HMV has announced that Tom Felton, Evanna Lynch, Matthew Lewis, and Jessie Cave will be signing copies of the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Blu-Ray edition on Sunday, December 6th at 4 PM. From their Facebook event page:

Due to limited time available access to the queue will be strictly limited, and the cast members will only be in a position to sign the Blu-ray/DVD combination edition of the film, which has been made available for this event. Wristbands will be issued from 10am on the day of the event from the store on a first come first served basis, no reservations, one wristband per person only.

For more information, click here! The Half-Blood Prince DVD comes out on December 7th in the UK, meaning that those who attend this event will get this Blu-Ray/DVD edition a day early! Thanks to Juan for the tip.

From the MuggleNet family to yours, we hope you have the happiest of Thanksgivings! Remember, you know you need to stop eating if you have to let your bathrobe out.

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As noted on the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Facebook page, registration for the Half-Blood Prince Blu-Ray community screening with Dan Radcliffe and David Yates is now open.

Registration gets you a place in the community screening, and Warner Brothers will soon be sending more instructions to those who register.

Additionally, WB has created this event page on Facebook for the community screening. Thanks to everyone who e-mailed!

In a new interview with BBC Radio, actor Ian Kelly, discusses his upcoming role in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Kelly talks about his time on set, as well as how he found out he got the part of Hermione's father, Mr. Granger.

"I love Harry Potter. You know I can't tell you much about it. They'll send 'round the men they have from Hogwarts. I play Hermione's dad and it's quite similar to what goes on in the book."

Thanks to Snitch Seeker, you can listen to the Potter segment of the interview here. If you're interested in the written excerpt, you can read it here.

For all we have on Deathly Hallows check out our Movie 7 Section.

Help us continue to celebrate MuggleNet's 10th Anniversary online by nominating yourself (or any of this year's winners!) for MuggleNet's first ever Fan of the Year! Submissions will be taken through December 1st, only 5 days left! Head over to Fan of the Week to submit your application! Remember to be creative!

In preparation for the release of the Half-Blood Prince DVD, CTV has released a new interview with actors Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint. Dan talks about the cast of Deathly Hallows, while Rupert speaks about life after the series concludes.

Additionally, ET Canada is getting in on the DVD promotion, as they will be sitting down on the set of Deathly Hallows to interview cast and crew. The segment airs next Wednesday, December 2.

Finally, British host Ben Shephard, is at Leavesden Studios today filming a new installment in the Behind the Magic series. You can follow him on Twitter and check out a recently posted picture from the set of him with Dan Radcliffe.

Thanks to Snitch Seeker for the tip!

Similar to the interview from Australia we showed you the other day, a Belgian newspaper has online new interviews with Tom Felton and Bonnie Wright to promote the Half-Blood Prince DVD. Of particular note is this photo of the cast (thanks, Snitch Seeker) on the Deathly Hallows set as well as Bonnie and Tom talking about filming the epilogue:

Tom Felton: We still have several months filming. The last scene we will probably be filming the scene 19 years later is playing. I'm very curious how we all will be.

Bonnie Wright: I'm looking forward to returning to King's Cross station. I had my first scene for the first Harry Potter movie ten years ago. I hardly knew then what acting was. I especially remember that I was freezing.

Tom: We've spent more than ten years together on this film set. We have grown up here. It will be strange to say goodbye.

Bonnie: Who knows, we can have a reunion in about ten years. What became of the actors? Maybe we'll play together in the Harry Potter musical. (Laughs)

According a new article online, a crew has been filming footage of the Yorkshire Dales for use in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Grassington Moor and the impressive 80m limestone crag of Malham Cove will feature in the film.

Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority chairman Carl Lis said:

"It's good to think that the iconic landscape of the Dales is going to be seen by a worldwide audience in the next Harry Potter film."

Thanks to Brandon for the tip! For all we have on Deathly Hallows be sure to check out our Movie 7 section.

Sometimes, watching CNBC has its payoffs. I happened to be watching and caught one of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park commercials we first told you about the other day.

You can watch it right here on YouTube. It's not the best quality (I recorded it on my iPhone), but there isn't anything new that needs to be seen in high resolution.

If you see any commercials, please send them in to tips at staff dot mugglenet dot com! We've heard there are multiple versions airing on TV.

Back in August, we told you about a new book coming this December called "One Day in the Life of Daniel Radcliffe". It includes 50 photos of Potter actor Dan Radcliffe taken on January 13th, 2009. At the time, he was living in New York to star in Equus.

Entertainment Weekly has received a sneak peek at one of the photos. From EW:

[Photographer Tim] Hailand features photos of the Harry Potter star rehearsing for his stint in the Broadway show Equus, eating his breakfast, and... stepping out of the shower.

“There are a lot of young girls that want to get close to Dan,” Hailand says, “and this is a way to get close to him.”

As we move toward 2010, The Telegraph is taking a look back at the top 100 books of the past decade. Coming in at No. 1 is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The entry reads:

If you don’t know what a Muggle is by now, you’re either Rip van Winkle or enormously stubborn. This is the seventh and final instalment in Rowling’s record-breaking series about Harry Potter, the world’s most famous lightning-scarred boy wizard and his tribulations with Lord Voldemort. We’ve seen Harry grow from a spindly, messy-haired 11-year-old into a heroic young adult. Children have grown up with him, finding in his battles metaphors for their own. This volume alone sold 15 million copies in the first 24 hours after it was published. Whether wickedly skewering suburbia, or bringing Harry, Ron and Hermione into mortal danger, Rowling is never less than absorbing. Some may sneer at her books, but they are triumphant sagas about the defeat of evil that tap into our basic hunger for stories. Most importantly, she makes reading a 700-page book seem easy. This one even has a quotation from Aeschylus as its epigraph. It stands as a cornerstone of the decade, a melding of high and low culture that appeals to all ages and nations.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone came in at No. 41 on the top 100 films of the past decade list. Do you think Deathly Hallows deserves the top spot?

Thanks to Leaky!

Wouldn't it be cool for your school's houses to be named after the four Hogwarts houses? At Oxford University, students are currently on their way to making that happen.

For the first time in 550 years, the Magdalen College Junior Common Room at Oxford has been changed to the Gryffindor common room. From The Telegraph:

Students are now campaigning to rename Christ Church, St Hughs and Merton colleges common rooms after the three other houses in Hogwarts; Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw.

"Magdalen College embodies the values of courage, daring, nerve and chivalry," third-year student Zoe Tyndall, 21, who proposed the name change.

"These are the characteristics of the Gryffindor house in Harry Potter novels."

The motion was passed with only six students opposing the name change.

Tom Meakin, President-Elect of Magdalen Junior Common Room added: "Magdalen does after all look a little bit like Hogwarts, and not to put any noses out of joint, but my Vice-President does look a little bit like Hagrid."

Dan Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton, and Bonnie Wright sat down with an Australian morning television program to discuss growing up on the set.

The interviews were conducted on the set of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to promote the Half-Blood Prince DVD. One particular highlight is Dan noting that after Christmas they are truly in the home stretch of filming.

View the interviews right here on YouTube. Thanks to Snitch Seeker for the tip!

We've received three reports now about a small television commercial for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park. It aired on NBC this morning during the Today Show. From MuggleNet reader Brooke:

It was simple with a black background with "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, opening Spring 2010 in Orlando, FL" in yellow Harry Potter font. The voice over basically just read the same thing and explained that it was a Harry Potter theme park. I thought it was really cool to see because I live in Lexington, KY - obviously no where near the park!

Sarah M. wrote in to say that towards the end actress Emma Watson talks about how great the park will be and the commercial wraps with Hedwig flying over Hogsmeade and stopping at Hogwarts castle.

On a related note, Universal has passed along this new video they put together which includes all of the announcements we learned about in September relating to the Wizarding World. No new content, but it's a fun refresher!