News Of The Day: Thursday 11th October 07

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Dawn French
Happy 50th birthday to Dawn French!
Dawn French, who was born in Holyhead, Wales on October 11, 1957, is 50 years old today. Dawn French plays the Fat Lady in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. She was also in the 1999 version of David Copperfield, Daniel Radcliffe's first movie, and was the voice of Mrs. Beaver in the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe.

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No Hogwarts in Kolkata, says Rowling's lawyers
A puja committee in Kolkata, India got a rude shock when days before the puja, they are now faced with a Rs 2 million fine for copyright violations. Their crime is not taking appropriate permissions from Rowling for using Hogwarts, the fictional Harry Potter school, as a theme for their puja pandal (prayer tent) this year. [more...]
Source: IBN, India
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Pupils to celebrate Hogwarts Night instead of Halloween
Halloween has been ditched at a school in England in favor of Harry Potter. Children at a Primary School in Neath voted to hold a Hogwarts Night instead of the traditional annual Halloween Disco. The decision follows angry outbursts by parents last week who were upset at plans to axe the spooky dance. [more...]
Source: This Is South Wales, UK
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Devon Murray

Devon Murray being featured in new short film
A new 12-minute film called Gone Fishing features Devon Murray, who played Seamus Finnegan in the Harry Potter films, as the younger-self of the main character. The filmmaker, Chris Jones, plans to take it to the Cannes Festival in France and also put it into contention for a short-film Academy Award. [more...]
Source: Wigan Today
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Chinese version of Deathly Hallows to go on sale October 28
The seventh and final Harry Potter book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will go on sale on October 28, Beijing Morning Post reported on Wednesday. The publisher, People's Literature Publishing House, confirmed that the sister translators Ma Ainong and Ma Aixin have finished the translation after a three month effort and the book has been delivered for print. [more...]
Source: China.org.cn

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