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Chute 212, an upcoming Harry Potter conference, is holding a promotional photo shoot this very weekend in Santa Rosa, CA. They are inviting costumed wizards and witches to participate in group photographs (and even some video!), which will be distributed as print advertising around the Bay Area. This is a Bring-Your-Own-Wand (BYOW) event!
Due to popular demand, TELUS World of Science – Edmonton has extended the run of Harry Potter: The Exhibition. The blockbuster exhibition has already attracted an incredible number of fans from western Canada. In celebration of the extension Harry Potter: The Exhibition guests can enter for a chance to win one of the exhibition’s replicas.
Gravity may have aced this weekend’s Academy Awards, but David Heyman, producer of the Harry Potter series, is wasting no time in promoting his latest project. Returning to his passion for adaptation, Heyman has been in development for his new live action film “Paddington.” Offering only the briefest glimpse of the bear in question, this newly released teaser offers an introduction to Paddington’s Peruvian roots.
Stephen Fry, the narrator of the British Harry Potter audio books, has pledged his backing to Happy Monday, a charity fundraising event that will raise mental health awareness. In order to take part, participants are invited to host their own bake-off or cook-off at home, school or anywhere really. To this extent Stephen has provided the charity with his own personal favorite recipe tp indulge us all. Check it out right here!
After reading through Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by “Newt Scamander,” I realized there are quite a few beasts that knowledgeable Muggles may be able to handle and a few I would like to have for various reasons. Here’s a countdown of the most useful.
We may know him as Rubeus Hagrid, but few of Robbie Coltrane’s fans realize that he got his artistic start drawing and painting as a student at Glasgow School of Art. In a new interview, Coltrane, who was a student at the art college from 1968-1972, describes his recollections of the era that turn out to be both detailed and colorful. He also reflects on his younger self, a young man with grand ideas about the creation of art and painting.
This year’s Oscars ceremony, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, took place last night in Hollywood. The big winner of the night was Gravity, the movie directed and produced by Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman. It walked away with seven awards. In addition, Earlier this week Cuarón spoke about his son’s role in getting the concept of the movie off the ground as well as his initial expectations of the film’s success. Emma Watson attended the Oscars for the first time, which we reported recently, presenting the award for special effects.
There are so many relationships within the series, so I’ve decided to make this post ongoing, posting related articles in the future. But for now, let’s start with the whole Harry/Ginny and Ron/Hermione thing. I’m going to begin by saying this news from Rowling isn’t going to be easy for any true Harry Potter fan because we are so accustomed with Character A and Character B being together. They should be together just because they should be together. But why?
Once again, we are cheating a little in our Twitter roundup, using a sneaky highlight from last week. Reunited backstage! #wosawards pic.twitter.com/4h1BhsjVtL — MuggleNet.com (@MuggleNet) February 23, 2014 If the pictures of Dan and...