News For The Day 12/02/07

New merchandise for Order of the Phoenix was unveiled this weekend. A new line of toys and action figures were on display at the NECA Toy Fair in New York City, and they are set to hit shelves beginning next month. Also, check out additional products that will become available here.

Dumbledore
Umbridge

Thanks to HarryLatino.com for the the pics!

Voldemort - or rather, "Chunky Lord Voldemort" - was mentioned in today's Opus comic strip!

MuggleNet visitor Daniel recently had the opportunity to speak with Mary GrandPre (the US book illustrator) for his school. In the interview, which he's decided to share with our site, Mary talks about her thoughts on Deathly Hallows:

I'm anxious for this to be the last book as much as I've enjoyed the journey. It's nice to kind of wrap it up and celebrate it as a whole and to just kind of look back and take a deep breath and go, "Whew! That was quite a ride!," so you know...I'm excited for it to end and to find out how it ends and yeah, I might be a little sad about it, but generally I'll be really happy that this check's closing and that I can kind of go on to other things personally and creatively. Yeah, so I'm happy about it, I'm happy that it has come to this point.

You can read much more (including Mary's thoughts on the title and the process of illustrating the books) at the link below! Thanks again to Daniel for allowing us to share this interview with our visitors.

For the complete interview see this page on Mugglenet.

Tejas