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According to the London Evening Standard, Stephen Fry visited the Jubilee Primary School today and read from the book that he is forever linked to: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. He was with London Evening Standard owner Evgeny Lebedev, who provided an amusing warm-up act reading from Roald Dahl’s The Witches on a NOOK eReader, ahead of the free Get Reading Festival organized by the Evening Standard and NOOK in Trafalgar Square on July 13.
This past weekend MuggleNet staff were in attendance at the fantastic LeakyCon Portland where Alohomora! hosts Caleb, Kat, Laura and Eric held a special live episode of our hit podcast. Listen now as they...
THEY’RE BACK!!!!!! MuggleNet will once again host the Hogwarts Ordinary Wizarding Level examinations this July. This will be open to ALL fifth year students (which means you, and you, and YOU!!!)
Belle, a new drama starring Potter actors Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) and Miranda Richardson (Rita Skeeter), has recently been picked up by Fox Searchlight and is set to be released in theaters in the UK and North America in the spring of 2014.
We would like to extend a very happy birthday wish to the actors, actresses, characters, and MuggleNet staff members that make the Harry Potter series so successful today.
The trailer for Katie Leung’s new BBC miniseries Run has just been released online! The website for the series says: “Run weaves together the stories of four seemingly unconnected people facing life-changing decisions. A series of four fast-paced narratives, Run is a compelling and surprising portrayal of modern British life and the unseen dramas which play out all around us.”
Back in 2011, we reported that Charlie Redmayne, executive vice-president and chief digital officer at HarperCollins, would become the CEO of Pottermore. Now, about a year and a half later, Redmayne will be returning to HarperCollins UK as CEO following current HarperCollins CEO Victoria Barnsley’s leave.
Ever wished you could visit the Harry Potter Studio Tour in London? Now you have a chance! The Universal Orlando Twitter account recently tweeted out a link providing Potter fans the chance to win a trip to visit the Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter.
Entertainment Weekly has just released a new list of their picks for the top ten greatest books of all time and the Potter series comes in seventh! The magazine calls the Potter books “the richest coming-of-age tale ever.”
