JKR's Open Book Tour

JKR has been touring the US this week for her "Open Book Tour", making her first stop Monday 10/15 in Los Angeles. Over 1,600 students packed the Kodak Theater to hear JKR read from Chapter 3 of Deathly Hallows and answer questions from the audience.

The author is currently in New Orleans for an October 18th event, and will travel tomorrow for two events in New York, one at Carnegie Hall. JKR will end the book tour in Toronto, Canada where she will attend the International Festival of Authors on October 24th.

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Warner Brothers Confirms DVD Release Dates

Official release dates for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix have been announced by Warner Brothers. The DVD will be released in standard format, Blu-ray, and HD DVD November 12 in the UK and December 11 in the US.

Also available will be a 12-disc giftset that includes two-disc editions of all the Harry Potter movies to date packed inside a collectible 'suitcase'.

Read more here.

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JKR's Chat Transcript Now Online

Bloomsbury.com just hosted a web chat with JKR where she answered over a 100 questions about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. You can find the transcript for the Chat at The Leaky Cauldron.

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LIVE Webstream of JKR Midnight Reading on July 21st

Source: The Leaky Cauldron

UK publisher Bloomsbury has announced that the reading of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by author J. K. Rowling taking place at the Natural History Museum will be streamed LIVE online via the Bloomsbury website at midnight on July 21st.

Bloomsbury Publishing is delighted to announce that now everyone will be able to hear J K Rowling read from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in a live webstream from the Natural History Museum in London at the precise moment it is published - 12.01am BST on Saturday 21st July 2007.

Ten years after publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone the publication of this, the final book in the series, returns to where it all began: with a book, the author and her readers.

The Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows launch event is completely oversubscribed and no further tickets will be issued but Bloomsbury encourages fans to log on to the webstream to join in the experience. The streaming will be available for a further two weeks at Bloomsbury.com

The publisher also announced a live web chat with J. K. Rowling to be held the following week on July 30th from 2-3.00pm BST. Fans may submit their questions via the Bloomsbury site beginning one week before the event, or during the live webcast.

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Ultimately Secretive

There's a feature in Time Magazine about the efforts Scholastic are making to keep the final Harry Potter tome secret until midnight of July 21. This involves sitting on the manuscript on planes and tracking the truck that delivers it to the company headquarters. Also in the article is a very "scary" moment when the continuity editor has her bag searched at a security check - inside the bag, pages of the edited manuscript!!

Tidbits of the article can be found at The Leaky Cauldron.

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WOMBAT #3 Now Available

The 'Do not Disturb' sign has been removed at JKRowling.com revealing the third and final WOMBAT test.

Instructions on how to open the door can be found at The Leaky Cauldron.

Good Luck!

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JK Rowling to Read from Deathly Hallows

J.K. Rowling will be reading from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at the release of the novel midnight July 21 at the Natural History Museum in London. There will be a subsequent signing of the book which is expected to last until dawn.

1,700 tickets to the event will be available by prize draw which will run from 23rd May to 11th June. There will be no charge for the event. Winners will be notified by 18th June. Of the 1,700 tickets available, the first 500 randomly selected winners will attend the midnight reading. The remaining 1,200 winners will be able to queue for the book signing. Every ticket holder will receive a free book from Bloomsbury Publishing.

UK residents can sign up for the event here.

Sign up via Scholastic Publishing here.

Sign up via Raincoast Publishing here.

JKR comments on the event on her website.

"It has been a long time since I've done a signing and had the chance to speak to readers individually, so I'm delighted that we are launching the book in this way. It will be wonderful for me to get the chance to speak to people who have already read a few chapters while in the queue!

Good luck if you're applying for tickets, and if you're successful, I'll see you shortly after midnight on July 21st!"

And good luck to you Jo. Your writing hand is going to need it!

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Scholastic Box Set Preview

Not monumental news here, but I thought it would be cool to show a little photo of this. It's already on sale if you traipse over to "The Leaky Cauldron" website, namely "The Cauldron Shop"; the release date is October 1, 2007. All seven of the books. I figured it would be slightly expensive. If you are wondering, it's $116.99 (or around £59).

Here's a photo!

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New OOTP Theatrical Trailers!

If you haven't already noticed, there are two new trailers: an 'international' one, and also a 'domestic' one for the US.

YouTube has them accommodatingly on its website.

Domestic Trailer
Int'l Trailer

Other formats are readily available to suit your computer's processing needs.

You can also see the trailers, as well as additional screen captures at the-leaky-cauldron.org, or you can just click to our messageboard and check out our OOTP Picture Thread, where Max is keeping up apprised of all the photos from the movie!

Have fun with all the eye candy.

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The Ultimate Deathly Hollows Prediction Contest

Taken from The Leaky Cauldron Website:

"To celebrate having less than 100 days to go until Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows hits shelves, we are launching our longest and most interactive and most important competition EVER. The one that could make or break your whole fandom reputation. The quiz that will earn you your Harry Potter cred.

"It's our Deathly Hallows Predictions Test, our massive quiz designed to record all YOUR guesses on what will happen in book seven. This is only part ONE - we'll release new questions every 20 days until July 21. Your predictions will be stored via your email address, and at the end of the quiz you'll get code for a button for your blog/Web page/MySpace/LJ/etc. that allows you to share your predictions with anyone you want."

To read more about it and take the first part of the quiz, check out the news story here!

Good luck!

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