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David Cross, a real estate agent, has estimated that if Hogwarts were real, its worth would be approximately $204,102,000. He came up with his calculations based largely on tips from Harry Potter fans.
David Holmes was Dan Radcliffe’s stuntman for several of the Harry Potter films until he suffered a tremendous injury during filming of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in January of 2009. His injuries included severe spinal damage after he fell from an aerial sequence involving controlled explosions. David is now the ambassador for the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) in Stanmore and has joined supporters for its bid on redevelopment.
Miriam Margolyes, who plays Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films, was recently honored by her old high school, Oxford High, which invited her to be the guest of honor at the launch of some new campus buildings and named a studio space after her.
According to IMDB, the Harry Potter films will be re-released in theaters across the United States on July 7, 2017. We are posting this as a rumor for now, but are reaching out to Warner Bros. for confirmation.
In a new video released by Attractions Magazine, it is clear that the expansion area at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park in Universal Orlando is growing rapidly. It has been reported by news agencies that the new expansion area (which is still technically “rumored” at this time) will be opening up in the summer of 2014.
One thing that can certainly be said for “Smack Family Robinson” is that it is not for the faint hearted! Set entirely within the family’s lounge, the play centres upon the Robinsons, a drug dealing, money laundering family full of community spirit. F-bombs and mild threats fly easily from the mouths of the parents who are spread luxuriously across white leather sofas, beer and wine in hand, casually informing their children of the adult channels’ password.
You know the trick – get a friend to take a picture of you on a broomstick while you jump into the air so it looks like you’re flying. It’s a pretty standard procedure, and you can fool your friends and neighbors into thinking the ‘Harry Potter’ universe is real. But what happens when fans take to the skies in mass and all of those images are uploaded to Imgur and Reddit?
MuggleNet got to participate in the beta testing of Pottermore at Playstation Home, an online social game experience, and wrote about the experience.
Like many other Potter fans I have occasionally considered getting a tattoo to express my love for the boy wizard. (Indeed one time while traveling in Amsterdam my friend nearly convinced me to get a lightning-bolt scar stark on my chest.) Now, I didn’t get that tattoo, but much braver fans than I have gotten tats over the years, and recently ChaCha.com posted an article featuring some of the best and worst of them.