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JK Rowling posts letters of rejection on Twitter to help budding authors
The Harry Potter author JK Rowling has shared some withering rebuffs publishers sent to her alter ego Robert Galbraith, in an effort to comfort aspiring authors. Rowling posted the rejection letters on Twitter after a request from a fan. They related to The Cuckoo’s Calling, her first novel as Galbraith. But Rowling also saw Harry Potter turned down several times before the boy wizard became one of the greatest phenomena...
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Harry Potter: GCHQ 'intervened over Half-Blood Prince leak'
GCHQ, the UK's surveillance agency, intervened to help prevent the sixth Harry Potter instalment leaking online, the book's publisher has said. Bloomsbury's Nigel Newton said GCHQ contacted him in 2005 after it apparently discovered an early copy of The Half Blood-Prince on the internet. However, after a page was read to an editor, it was determined to be fake. A spokesperson for GCHQ told the Sunday Times: "We don't comment on our defence against the dark arts."
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Harry Potter author JK Rowling defends Trump's right to be 'offensive', 'bigoted', even Voldemort
Harry Potter author JK Rowling defends Donald Trump's right to be offensive at a literary event in New York, after last year saying he was worse than her fictional villain, Voldemort.
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Chamber of Azkaban! - What’s The Difference?
Harry Potter is one of the most popular book and movie series of all time. Now it’s time for us to do some magic to find the differences between the first 3 books and films. Have you read any of the Harry Potter books? Have you read them all? Which is your favorite? Do you think prefer the books or the movies? Are you looking forward to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them? What other works would you like to see us explore on What’s The Difference?
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FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM Comic-Con Trailer (2016) J.K. Rowling Movie HD
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of the Phoenix! - What's the Difference?
Dive back into the wizarding world of adaptations with part 2 in our What’s the Difference Harry Potter-a-thon. Let’s take a look at the significant ways the movies veered away from the books. Wands at the ready…
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Harry Potter and the £500,000 house: 'Privet Drive' on the market
The home used as 4 Privet Drive in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is for sale in Bracknell for £475,000. Owners will get a three-bed house with large garden and cupboard under the stairs
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Harry Potter and the translator's nightmare
Accio Harry Potter translations!
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Syrian girl thanks JK Rowling for sending Harry Potter books
A seven-year-old girl in the Syrian city of Aleppo has thanked JK Rowling for sending her the Harry Potter books. Bana Alabed says she likes to read "to forget the war" around her, as Aleppo is regularly bombed. Her mother Fatemah tweeted the author to say she had watched the films and Bana would like to read the novels. JK Rowling responded and digital copies of the books have been sent to Bana, who has shared pictures of herself reading them on a mobile phone.
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Kymera Magic Wand remote control
The Wand Company’s Kymera Wand universal remote control is not a toy: it is a beautifully designed and highly detailed real working magic wand. It has been carefully fabricated from high quality precision engineered materials and the perfect blend of advanced technology and authentic wizardry results in a truly realistic product.
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'Harry Potter' turns 20
Believe it or not, the world almost missed out on Harry Potter. Author J.K. Rowling has told the story of how she received "loads" of rejections before "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (known in the U.S. as "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone") was finally published on June 26, 1997. Rowling once told fans that she couldn't even get books published under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith, which she used for some thrillers she wrote.
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Digital Harry Potter Library Highlights the Magic in Historical Texts
The collection includes illustrations of basilisks, mandrakes, and bezoars.
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Why are children’s authors eccentric?
The writers of Eloise, Goodnight Moon and more pushed boundaries of behaviour. Dark episodes in their pasts may have proved fruitful, writes Hephzibah Anderson.
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AI-Generated 'Harry Potter' Chapter Wins the Internet
A new Harry Potter story hit the Web this week—but it wasn’t written by J.K. Rowling. Entertainment group Botnick Studios on Tuesday released “The Handsome One,” a wild and wonderful tale generated entirely...
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Harry rotters: Warner Bros cracks down on Potter fan festivals in US
Studio says unauthorized commercial activity needs to be halted but fans liken move to Dementors sucking the joy out of fun
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Exclusive: Johnny Depp breaks silence on 'Fantastic Beasts' sequel role
It’s been two years since surprised audiences by appearing near the end of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.…
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Fantastic Beasts' Professor McGonagall Plot Hole Can't Be Fixed
So how, exactly, is it possible that Professor McGonagall was running around Hogwarts telling off students in the early 20th century, if she was born in 1935 and started teaching there in the 1950s?
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Harry Potter and the explosion of Hogwarts’ merchandise
Twelve years after JK Rowling’s final book in the wizarding series, why is everything from Quidditch slippers to Hedwig lip balms still flying off the shelves?
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The Costs of Building Pop Culture Structures
From Death Star to Hogwarts, pop culture structures are as every bit iconic as the characters. How much would they cost to build in real life? We estimate the costs of five iconic structures.
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Harry Potter Wizards Unite Beta Available In New Zealand
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