The problem with Harry Potter? It’s a common name. A really common name. Here’s results from the 1990 U.S. census: Harold: 44th most popular boy’s name Harry: 70th most popular boy’s name Potter: 376th most popular last name Put two and two together, and that’s a lot of Harry Potters who are around nineteen years old right now — [...]
Friday, September 11, 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama mentioned J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter specifically in his back-to-school address to students on Tuesday: The truth is, being successful is hard. You won’t love every subject you study. You won’t click with every teacher. Not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right this minute. And you won’t necessarily succeed at everything [...]
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Evanna Lynch, the lovely 17-year-old Irishwoman who plays Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter, just did an interview with Irish Central. Sounds like she has a perfect handle on who Luna is: “Luna seems small and young and not noted for being brave, and yet she is. She’s really calm though, she doesn’t get surprised by anything, [...]
Friday, May 29, 2009
A new Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince featurette has just been released, and it contains a lot of footage we haven’t seen yet. The focus is on Harry and Dumbledore’s relationship — and as Michael Gambon, the actor portraying Dumbledore, says, “the relationship turns into more of a friendship” this time around, which is [...]
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
J.K. Rowling was just knighted by French president Nicolas Sarkozy, the country’s highest honor. While foreigners can’t be officially inducted into French knighthood, they can be given honorary titles; previous honorary honorees include Steven Spielberg and Barbra Streisand. WENN notes that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was the first English-language book to ever top [...]
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was almost called Harry Potter and the Hallows of Hogwarts, according to a newly-released interview with J.K. Rowling from Melissa Anelli of Harry, a History. Hallows of Hogwarts was one of the fake titles that Rowling sent to the publisher in order to keep the real title secret, but [...]
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