Zoë Wanamaker – who portrayed Madam Hooch in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – is the daughter of Sam Wanamaker, the founder of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. She has given a very rare collector’s piece to be auctioned off at the Globe’s Gala Dinner and Auction – a cast-signed Hogwarts school songsheet.
J.K. Rowling / News / PS/SS
A rare opportunity to hear a new interview with the author of the Harry Potter book series – J.K. Rowling – as she is slated to appear on the morning news program in America, Good Morning America.
The Harry Potter community has suffered a great loss this week in the death of Stephenie McMillan, the set decorator on all eight Potter films.
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Back in June, MuggleNet reported that Scholastic had announced a contest that would give fifteen public libraries across the United States a Harry Potter party pack to celebrate fifteen years since Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was first published.
Book / Book Series / News / PS/SS
The 15th Anniversary of the release of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by Scholastic, here in the United States, is approaching fast. To celebrate the milestone, Scholastic is re-releasing the Harry Potter paperback books with new artwork designed by Kazu Kibuishi.
Book / Book Series / News / PS/SS / Scholastic
Yesterday the Deathly Hallows 15th Anniversary cover was finally unveiled, and the press release from Scholastic also revealed that Kazu Kibuishi not only created seven beautiful covers for the front of each Harry Potter book, he also created new art for the books’ back covers!
Book / Book Series / News
The revealing of the seventh re-designed Harry Potter US book cover by artist Kazu Kibuishi took place this morning at Scholastic’s headquarters in New York City. The ceremony coincided with Harry Potter’s (and author J.K. Rowling’s) birthday, and marked the end of a drawn-out campaign of controlled releases put on by Scholastic in the previous months.
You may own the movies, but can you watch them all with the extra scenes added in just the right spot? Only some of the Ultimate Harry Potter editions have the extended movie version that includes these great scenes for you, but beginning this Saturday morning, you can watch your favorite Harry Potter films with those cut scenes you love so much!
MuggleNet has found the images for both Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. According to an article by the Wall Street Journal, the cover for Goblet of Fire was released by Scholastic’s vice president and publisher, Arthur Levine, in Chicago, Illinois at the annual American Library convention.
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