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You may remember last June, MuggleNet reported that Daniel Radcliffe was making his way back to the West End stage in Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Innishman this summer. As the time draws near, we wanted to remind you that the play will run from June 18 through August 31, with preview performances to begin on June 8.
Daniel Radcliffe is a vlogger! Before you read on, April Fool’s Day was last week, so this isn’t another one of our famous gags. According to Dan’s official Google Plus page, he will be posting what he calls a “video diary sharing his strange interests and whatever comes to mind.”
The Quidditch World Cup is ready to roll, with 80 teams (60 Division 1, and 20 Division 2) set to battle it out and find out what squad will be the first team other than Middlebury College to be crowned Quidditch World Champion.
A couple of days ago we featured a story from another website, ChaCha.com, which showed the best and the worst Harry Potter tattoos from around the web. At the end of the post I asked all you MuggleNet followers out there to submit your own Potter tats to the site so we could feature them, and – oh man – you guys delivered!
On April 19, Potter actor Warwick Davis will join panelists Paul Meton and Ian Hislop along with guest Joe Wilkinson on Have I Got News For You, the BBC One quiz show. According to Belfast Telegraph, during the show the guest stars and panelists discuss the week’s news in a comical way.
Pottermore has released the next round of chapters for Prisoner of Azkaban. Available now, fans can explore chapters 8 to 15 of the third book, from “Flight of the Fat Lady” to “The Quidditch Final.”
The funeral for beloved actor Richard Griffiths was held yesterday at the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon and included 300 mourners paying their respects to the 65-year old actor who portrayed Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films, among many other stage and film characters.
SUNY Geneseo’s chapter of the Harry Potter Alliance, who call themselves Dumbledore’s Army, was recently profiled in the Geneseo campus publication The Lamaron. The Geneseo chapter has steadily worked its way up to student group status and is an ever-growing presence on the SUNY campus.
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