Readers of the Harry Potter series can be divided into four categories, according to a marketing expert.

According to Professor Stephen Brown of Ulster University, the booklovers tend to bear striking similarities to each of the four houses presented in the series Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

His findings divide the readers under four groups and relate their reading habits and attitudes to that of the four houses. Read the rest of this entry »

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British actor Daniel Radcliffe, who shot to fame for his role in the Harry Potter series of films, has made his debut performance at New York’s Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway in Equus.

19-year-old Radcliffe admitted he was really nervous before the opening night and that he hadn’t seen any of the reviews of the production yet. Radcliffe had to appear nude in Equus but he had no problems with this.

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Quidditch is a creation from the pen of J. K. Rowling in her famous Harry Potter Series of fantasy books. Quidditch is a fantastic sport played by the wizards while riding on the broomsticks in the air. The immense popularity of Quidditch in Harry Potter books forced J. K. Rowling to write a supplementary book exclusively about Quidditch, which is named “Quidditch through the Ages”.
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When Harry Potter was a one year old boy, he survived an attack by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort after he murdered Harry Potter’s parents and it was Dumbledore who arranged Harry Potter’s shifting to his muggle relatives, Dursleys. It was again Dumbledore who arranged Harry Potter’s arrival at the Hogwarts through Hagrid.

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Lord Voldemort was the main villain of the Harry Potter Series fantasy novels, written by J. K. Rowling. He is the representation of evil and played the part of nemesis of Harry Potter’s protagonist. The initial books remained quite clueless about who Lord Voldemort was, however, a lot of information about Lord Voldemort’s past was presented in the sixth book of the series named “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”.

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Warner Bros. says it’s bumping “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” from its planned November release into next summer.

The sixth installment in the blockbuster franchise about boy wizard Harry now will open July 17 rather than Nov. 21, the studio said Thursday.

Studio President and Chief Operating Officer Alan Horn says the studio has had success with past summer “Harry Potter” releases, including the fifth movie. Horn also says the Writers Guild of America strike had “impacted the readiness of scripts for other films — changing the competitive landscape for 2009 and offering new windows of opportunity that we wanted to take advantage of.”

Let’s face it. After “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” most, if not all of us, prepared ourselves for the end of the epic series. Knowing that we would no longer be able to enjoy the magical feeling of Hogwarts ever again, most of us resorted to scanning through our old books, recognizing the most important details the story had to offer. We felt a sort of Harry heartbreak, scared that the story would never continue again. This, though, is only half true. Harry Potter will never again hit the bookshelves, but the wizard world will return to our bookstores this December with the help of J.K. Rowling. Read the rest of this entry »

Voldemort. He’s the character we all love to hate. With his snake-like face and long bony stature, his dark and inhuman nature makes him that much more interesting and evil. Having already debuted online, the trailer for “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” revealed to us the more human, but maybe even darker side of Voldemort. The child Tom Riddle finally has a face and it is that face which has people talking about the pure evil in He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Read the rest of this entry »

Harry Potter Series of fantasy novels is filled with a variety of creatures, plants and other objects with magical powers. All these creatures were the imaginative work of its author J. K. Rowling, who also wrote a separate book named “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” which contained a list of all these beasts. This short book was written by J. K. Rowling for a British charity.

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