[NOTD] News for the day 18/04/07

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Posted: 18 years ago

A beautiful view of Hogwarts from OOTP video game

Check out this fantastic new picture of Hogwarts in the Order of the Phoenix video game. One of the exciting new features about this game is that you'll be able to explore the entire castle whenever you please. Thanks to UniversHarryPotter.com for this!

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Posted: 18 years ago

Casting for Half-Blood Prince underway

The Iceland Review has a short article detailing local Icelandic actor Jon Pall Eyjolfsson, who recently traveled to England to audition for a role in Half-Blood Prince:

"Everything is in a very sensitive stage but it is certainly exciting and it would be great if I get the role. I have met the people who are behind this film and I have read from the script. At this stage you only get to see parts of the script and there is a lot of secrecy about this whole thing."

Eyjolfsson has already been invited back for another audition round, and he will know in May whether or not he got the yet-to-be-revealed role (rumored to be Young Voldemort/Tom Riddle). Read more details here!

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Posted: 18 years ago

First Scholastic DH question online

As part of its There Will Soon Be 7 Deathly Hallows marketing campaign, Scholastic has updated its site with new activities, downloads, bookmarks, posters, e-cards, and much more. Furthermore, the first of seven pressing questions has now been posted: "Who will live, Who will die?" You can vote here.

UPDATE: Scholastic now has a profile on YouTube tt will play host to several promotional videos asking the seven aforementioned questions.

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Posted: 18 years ago

JKR sought inspiration in art

Jo Rowling has written a brief introduction to "Reading Round Edinburgh," where she says she took to walking Edinburgh's many galleries in a "miserable and desperate measure" of gaining some inspiration when experiencing writers' block (while penning Chamber of Secrets).

She writes that memories of Edinburgh "leap out of the pages of Harry Potter for me, the places I wrote particular chapters and passages; where I despaired of ever having another idea; where I experienced all the delights and the frustrations of living in a fictional world."

She also says that while the city has many "Potteresque vistas," she cannot point to particular buildings or streets featured in her books, and says Hogwarts wasn't based on a "certain public school" in the city.

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Posted: 18 years ago

WB Harry Potter Site Revamp Due This Week

In the new issue of the WB Reel News email sent to subscribers, WB announced that changes are afoot for the main Harry Potter movie website. According to the owl this editor just received, under a photo of Voldemort and the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix logo it says:

In Theaters and IMAX
July 13, 2007
Join Dumbeldore's Army. Check back for the new site this week!

Yay! Stay tuned and we will update once the revamp of the site has launched.

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Posted: 18 years ago

Harry Potter on Waterstone's Poll of Top 100 Books

UK Retailer Waterstone's has launched a new poll asking readers to choose their favorite book of the past 25 years. Among theTop 100 books is Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone by J.K. Rowling. This list, which was drawn up via a poll of the chains 5,000 booksellers, includes novels such as "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho, "Bridget Jones's Diary" by Helen Fielding,"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera, "Northern Lights" by Philip Pullman, "Colour of Magic" by Terry Pratchett, "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel, and "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" by Mark Haddon among many others. If you would like to vote, you may do sovia this link, with voting due to close May 4.

Also the company, along with the Telegraph newspaper, is conducting the Great British Literary Census of UK readers, asking questions regarding personal habits, as well as asking how excited you are for the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on July 21.