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Terolyn
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05-06-2004
| Friday, July 08, 2005 - 1:44 pm
I prefer the British versions of the books. I like the language better too.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Saturday, July 09, 2005 - 10:21 am
I like the back cover with the death mark. Looks like Ron, Hermione and Ginny on the bottom. I'm so excited! Terolyn, where do you get the British versions? Do you order them online?
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Calamity
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10-18-2001
| Saturday, July 09, 2005 - 11:38 am
Hermione: Yes, you order them online. One place is Amazon.ca I really like some of the international covers.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Saturday, July 09, 2005 - 1:07 pm
I have both the British and American movie posters of the first film. I like the British one better. Thanks for the tip about Amazon.ca. I've always wanted to read the Philosophers Stone in all its British glory.
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - 11:25 am
Link to larger picture of deluxe jacket artwork
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - 1:08 pm
Wow, that's beautifully done. Thanks for sharing that. I hadn't seen it before.
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Djgirl
Member
07-17-2002
| Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - 2:10 pm
I completely forgot about the Library thread **Deej slaps her head in disgust!* My patronus is... Deear, it's effectiveness is pretty good, and I use it for good.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 6:34 am
LOL, Deej!
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 11:54 am
~ Hi Djgirl! ~ Anyone have any last minute thoughts about what may happen - or what you hope may happen - in HBP? ~ An interview with JKR will air on NBC's Dateline at 7pm EDT, July 17th. ~ Drawing Clues from the Covers USA Today The cover on all three editions of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince— the U.S. edition from Scholastic, the U.K. edition from Bloomsbury and the deluxe edition — seem to emphasize the relationship between Professor Dumbledore and Harry, says Melissa Anelli of the-leaky-cauldron.org. On the Scholastic cover, she says, Dumbledore "seems to be showing Harry the contents of a pensieve (storage device for thoughts and memories); on the Bloomsbury children's cover, he and Harry seem to be at the center of a fiery vortex." And on the cover of the deluxe edition, "there's a knife in the upper right side of the image, apparently sticking out of a tree. Dumbledore is looking right at it, while Harry seems to be looking further into the distance." So what does all this mean? Among interpretations: • Because neither Harry nor Dumbledore is carrying a wand, despite the knife in the tree, they don't feel they're in danger. "It could be a memory they're walking through, or some other sort of magical destination," Anelli says. • Because Harry is in nightclothes, perhaps something urgent has happened in the middle of the night. "Harry's hand rests on a branch or some sort of structure, and there's wood blocking the front of him," Anelli says. "He seems to be on a bridge or at some sort of crossing point." The covers of all editions, she adds, "seem to show Dumbledore guiding, leading, fighting alongside and acting as a mentor to Harry, something fans missed dearly in book five, where Dumbledore purposefully shunned Harry to protect him. Dumbledore has a lot of knowledge and wisdom to give before Harry does what we all expect he will do in book seven — defeat Voldemort — and it seems he's going to get that in this book." Link to this and other articles
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Terolyn
Member
05-06-2004
| Friday, July 15, 2005 - 10:33 am
Harry Potter's Unclear Future Friday, July 15, 2005 By Roger Friedman Harry Potter Kids Not Signed Scary news: The kids from the Harry Potter movies are not signed up to do any more sequels after the fourth film is released this fall. Agreements for Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson only extended through the first four movies. That's thanks to British law, according to Warner Bros. chief Alan Horn. The fourth movie, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," directed by Mike Newell, is due out in November. There are three more books by J.K. Rowling, however, that have yet to be made into movies, including the new one, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," which will be available tomorrow. The seventh, final volume is still untitled. Horn told me that he believes the studio will be able to re-sign Radcliffe, Grint and Watson to finish the series. "But you never know," he said, shrugging. Warner's Harry Potter movie series was revived last year by the magical direction of Alfonso Cuarón in episode three, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban." Horn told me that Newell delivers a different Harry Potter in "Goblet of Fire," one who's maybe a little more mature and definitely more eccentrically British. "It's not as funny visually as the last one," Horn said, "but Mike Newell, because he's from that same school background as Harry Potter, gets it very right." The next Harry Potter movie, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," goes to a young director named David Yates, who just had a success with the cable movie "The Girl in the Café." Don't ask Horn, who's sunk tens of millions of dollars into the films, what the new book is about or how the series ends. "I went to England for J.K. Rowling's birthday," he said, "and she wouldn't tell me anything. I have to wait like everyone else." http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,162604,00.html
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Terolyn
Member
05-06-2004
| Friday, July 15, 2005 - 10:35 am
Harry Potter Turns to the Dark Side Friday, July 15, 2005 By Andrew Hard As the hours tick down to Saturday's stroke-of-midnight release of the latest Harry Potter book, some parents are concerned that the kids lining up outside bookstores will be faced with a story as black as night itself. "It's scary for younger kids, when you have animals turning into people and people into birds and things like that," said Geneseo, Ill., parent Marian Shannon. "It's maybe not for kids who are less than 8." As Potter readers well know, the boy wizard's godfather, Sirius Black, has been killed right in front of him, he has cast the forbidden "Cruciatus Curse" on a witch in an effort to make her writhe in unspeakable agony and he has been prophesied to either kill or be killed by the evil lord Voldemort. With the 12:01 a.m. Saturday release of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (search), the second-to-last book in the series, expectations are for the series to grow blacker still. "It's been getting progressively darker throughout the series," said Ilene Cooper, children's books editor at Booklist (search) magazine. "J.K. Rowling (search) herself has intimated that she isn't sure Harry is going to survive the series. That's about as dark as you can get." Some parents complained that the last Potter film, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" (search) — which introduced audiences to the black-cloaked, soul-sucking floating "dementors" — was far too dark and horrifying for young children to see. "When my family went, it was surprising to see how many parents brought 6-, 7- or 8-year-olds, and I was thinking, 'That's not the age group that this is for,'" said Wauconda, Ill., mother Colleen Kersting. "One child screamed out in the theater and had to leave. I think parents were shocked at how violent and scary the movies have gotten," she continued. Jennifer Brown, children's reviews editor at Publishers Weekly (search), said the darkening books should not come as a surprise. "Rowling made clear from the very beginning that Harry would grow up from his first year at Hogwarts," the school at which children study how to become wizards in the series, said Brown. "Harry's parents are dead from the beginning." However, she added, "the dementors in the third book were dark. Just the idea of a creature that can suck the happiness right out of you is pretty terrifying." Even the pope has taken a swipe at Harry. In a March 2003 letter to Gabriele Kuby, author of the German book "Harry Potter — Good or Evil," Benedict XVI, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, expressed concern that the books "erode Christianity in the soul" of young people, Kuby said Thursday. "It is good that you are throwing light on Harry Potter, because these are subtle seductions that work imperceptibly, and because of that deeply, and erode Christianity in the soul before it can even grow properly," Benedict's letter says. But most parents say the latest books and films are OK for young audiences, as long as kids are able to understand that it is all make-believe. "I don't think it's really, really dark. It always ends up with Harry offering some kind of hope and things turn out positively in the end," Greensboro, N.C., mother Mary McGinley said. "I think most kids understand that it's completely fantasy-based." That said, the growth of adult interest in the books seems to support the idea that the series has gone beyond the genre of children's books. More than a quarter of a million adults are predicted to purchase "Half-Blood Prince" on its first day of release in Britain, which would put the novel up with the hardback sales of all the heavy hitters in adult fiction there. "It's really a phenomenon that spans age groups — it's taken on a life of its own," Cooper said. "As Harry has gotten older, the audience has gotten older as well." Young readers who have grown up with the books seem to agree that as the story grows more dismal, it only gets better. FOXNews.com interviewed the graduating 8th-grade class at Discovery Middle School in Alexandria, Minn., about the dark turn the Potter stories seem to have taken. "I do think they have gotten darker. I think it has made the books marvelous! That's what a lot of people like to read about — kind of suspenseful and scary at the same time," said Discovery student Kelsey Olson. "I think it has had a great effect on the books and I hope they keep getting darker as the series goes on." Sales figures back Kelsey up: Each successive Harry Potter book has done better than the last, and this latest installment is expected to equal, if not top, the whopping sales of Rowling's last book — "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," which sold more than 12 million copies. Indeed, the majority of the 8th-graders who spoke to FOX News seemed to think that parents should butt out and let their kids have some fun. "Snobby parents!" said student Alex Haugland. "The movies may be violent, but really, it's not that bad." Cooper added that with fairy tales as old as "Cinderella" telling kids about evil step-sisters cutting their toes off to fit into a pair of shoes and having their eyes poked out by birds, children's capacity to absorb and appreciate dark material shouldn't be underestimated. "Kids of younger ages read up," she said. "I would be surprised if she [Rowling] changed anything because younger kids were reading." http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,162562,00.html
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