According to The San Fransisco Chronicle, Mary GrandPre, the Illustrator of the Harry Potter books in the US, will be the keynote speaker at the The Girls’ Middle School Annual Scholarship Breakfast. The event will be held on Wednesday, Apr 28 8:00am to 9:15am at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Cabana in Palo Alto, CA.

The Girls’ Middle School announces its Annual Scholarship Breakfast, “Step Into the Magic.” This event raises scholarship support for high-achieving, low-income girls in the Bay Area.

Keynote speaker, Mary GrandPre, is a world-renowned illustrator best known for bringing Harry Potter to life through her brilliant illustrations. She created the images that traced Harry’s journey through adolescence, and in the process shaped the world’s image of the book’s hero.

Tickets are $100 and can be purchased starting today by going to this link.

You can also pay $10 for a raffle ticket to win all 7 book signed by Mary! There are a number of different seating options, some include signed books and illustrations from Mary and VIP seating.

UPDATE: I contacted the school to ask if anyone can enter the raffle for signed books and they have let me know that anyone can enter the raffle as long as they live in the United States!  They also said that “It may be of interest to you and other Harry Potter fans to learn that Mary has said that in addition to signing the books, she may draw a small illustration in each, making them even more valuable!”

Well the telethon for Help Haiti Heal has finished up about 20 minutes ago and we all made over $34,000!  I also talked to Matt Lewis a little earlier this evening and he said he would probably donate something to the cause! He actually went on to the live podcast for a while along with Evanna Lynch.  So far he has donated following people on Twitter if you donate $50 (that might be over now).

Evanna mentioned she could probably donate some signed Potter items as well as making a phoenix necklace (like her raddish earrings).

Tom Felton has also pledged to donate a signed guitar!

Thank you everyone and keep donating to the cause! http://thehpalliance.org/haiti

As I posted yesterday The Harry Potter Alliance along with a ton of other sites and fandoms are Helping Haiti Heal with a fundraiser! So far according to @TweetAHA we have already raised over $1000!!!  There are some awesome prizes you can be entered to win by donating certain amounts!

The most exciting prize, at least in my opinion, is a set of Harry Potter Hardcover books signed by JK ROWLING!  If you donate $100 you are eligable to win:

This extraordinarily rare item was donated personally by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling to the HP Alliance to help aid the cause. Comes with authenticity holograms as well as a card that reads, “Thank you for helping Haiti!” and is signed by the author.

For more information and prizes head over HERE!

A TON of Harry Potter fan sites (and sites for other fandoms) have banded together to create a massive fund-raising event that will take place tomorrow, Saturday, starting at 2pm EST!  Even though MM isn’t an official part of the fundraiser it is still important for us Potter fans to come together and support the people of Haiti!

This Saturday, January 23rd, at 2 P.M. EST, HPA’s PotterWatch, PotterCast, MuggleCast, Hogwarts Radio, and FictionAlley will come together for a live fundraising webcast here on Livestream to benefit Partners in Health.  This four hour live event will feature a donation drive where donors have the opportunity to win prizes, live performances from many wizard rockers; leaders in fan communities; personal interviews with Haitian-Americans about the importance of giving to Partners In Health; human rights activists; a representative from MIT’s Media Lab discussing ways that we can donate our time using new media; and much more.

Help spread the word by Tweeting the following:
We’re Helping Haiti Heal – learn about a huge fandom event happening Sat. from 2pm to 6pm ET! http://bit.ly/5603s6 #hhh

For more information you can head over to The Harry Potter Alliance Website!

Alivan’s is donating 100% of the profits from all Redwood wand sales to the Red Cross to go directly to Haiti.  Just purchase one of their Redwood wands (in one of the two Redwood designs) between now and Jan. 31st.

At the end of this campaign Alivan’s will let us know how much was raised through wand purchases.

Thanks to Mugglenet!

As most of you have probably heard, yesterday a huge tragedy hit Haiti; they were hit by a 7.0 earthquake.  The Harry Potter Alliance is asking for everyone’s help to reach out to Haiti and help with the relief efforts.

Please consider donating $10 to Haiti by texting “HAITI” to 90999. Or if you have access to a credit card, we highly recommend you donate to Partners In Health as they have been in Haiti for over 20 years and have written the book on health and human rights. Partners in Health both tackle the symptoms as well as the root causes.

Please retweet the following Tweets on Twitter:
RT @TheHPAlliance:: 4 #haiti consider Partners In Health-been in Haiti for 20+yrs & r health/human rights experts: http://bit.ly/5NZTpH

RT @TheHPAlliance: Text “HAITI” to “90999? & ur donation of $10 will go 2 to the Red Cross 4 relief efforts in #Haiti! http://bit.ly/879Wd3