[NOTD] News for the day 23/03/07

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Posted: 18 years ago

Win a trip on the MuggleNet tour!

Magical Tours, Alivan's Master Wandmakers, and MuggleNet have teamed up for an exciting contest! Magical Tours is providing the grand prize: a free spot on the second annual MuggleNet tour of Britain (airfare included) for the MuggleNet fan with the most creativity.

Just submit the best T-shirt design for the participants on this summer's tour of Britain for MuggleNet fans by Magical Tours: Illuminating Harry's Wondrous World. For complete details on this and other great Magical Tours, click here. To enter, check out the contest rules and prizes and start designing! The deadline for entries is April 15th, 2007.

The Alivan's prize packages will include the following: Second place can choose between Classic Collection Wand and matching set of Regal School Robe, Scarf, and Tie. Third place can choose between Classic Collection Wand and matching Scarf and Tie.

Good luck!

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Posted: 18 years ago

Youngsters vandalize Hogwarts Express

A group of six youngsters recently caused 50,000 worth of damage to the Hogwarts Express used in the Potter films. The group members, some as young as 10, broke into the West Coast Railway depot at the former Steamtown site in Carnforth, England, and destroyed the train's windows, using its emergency hammers.

Patricia Marshall, managing director of West Coast Railway, said, "It will take at least a month to repair, because so much damage was caused."

Edited by albusdumbledore - 18 years ago

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Posted: 18 years ago

MuggleNet forum reaches 70,000 members

We're delighted to announce that MuggleNet's official CoS Forums, the ultimate Potter community, reached the 70,000 member mark today! With Deathly Hallows (not to mention the OOTP movie) mere months away, it's definitely a must-visit for the latest and most in-depth theories. If you're not already a member, we suggest you sign up today!

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Posted: 18 years ago

Severus Snape and a Fandom Enthralled

Severus Snape. The mention of his very name immediately gets attention and never fails to conjure up a strong reaction among Harry Potter fans, especially given the events in Half-Blood Prince. The Baltimore Sun has a new article online featuring the nefarious Potionsmaster and how this character has become such a popular and widely discussed figure in the Harry Potter world.

"Severus Snape" on Google returns more than a half-million hits. A single blog-hosting site - LiveJournal.com - counts 390 communities and more than 400 users listing him as an interest, roughly the same number that list Harry Potter. He has songs written in his honor. YouTube videos. A monthly podcast. MySpace pages, for heaven's sake ("Severus Snape has 3,370 friends").

Even the bookstore chain Borders has chosen an all-Snape method of marketing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, including the choice of pro- or anti-Snape bumper stickers when you reserve the book. (Pro is winning.)

When popular Potter fan site The Leaky Cauldron (the-leaky-caul dron.org) asked fans to vote for their favorite character last fall, Snape beat out everyone except Harry and his clever friend, Hermione Granger.

The article continues on to discuss the fateful events on the tower at the end of book six and what this means for the outcome of Snape in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows asking the questions long debated here in the fandom: Is this character ultimately good or evil, and will he live or die at the end of book seven?

"Our theory," said author Salman Rushdie, who rose to speak for us all at a reading Rowling gave in New York last summer, "is that Snape is, in fact, still a good guy."

And we really don't want him to redeem himself through death. If he can atone for his errors and live on, then - well - there's hope for all of us.

Alas: This is not how such tales usually go.

"He's the sort of character who ... ends up dying sacrificially to prove his goodness," said James Krasner, an associate professor whose specialty at the University of New Hampshire is Victorian literature."

And the debate continues. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released on July 21, 2007.

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Hmmm now after this... I need to garner support for Severus......
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Posted: 18 years ago

Dan Radcliffe to Appear on Jonathan Ross Show this Friday

Actor Dan Radcliffe is to appear on the Friday Night with Jonathan Ross show which airs March 23 starting at 10:40 pm, and is broadcast in the UK on BBC One. The information on the program says that:

"The new season kicks off with Daniel Radcliffe making a return to the Ross sofa for an exclusive chat about how he has gone from Harry Potter to sell-out West End star in the acclaimed revival of Peter Shaffer's Equus."

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Posted: 18 years ago

Happy Birthday, Gary Oldman!

It's a Marauders birthday party of sorts here in the Cauldron, for today actor Gary Oldman (Sirius Black) is celebrating his 49th birthday! Cheers to you Gary!

Also in the midst of yesterday's news I missed that actor David Thewlis (Remus Lupin) celebrated his 44th birthday. Happy belated birthday David!

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Shriya Chadha

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Posted: 18 years ago

tfs tejas bro.... & whoa.... someone's getting popular 😉
looks like snape's getting a lot of attention... well, im glad... he is, after all the love of my life 😉

Edited by shriyaroxxx - 18 years ago