This coming week ABC Family will be having another Harry Potter weekend, this time it starts on Wednesday and you’ll have the chance to see the first five films. The weekend culminates with a full day marathon starting with Sorcerer’s Stone and ending with Order of the Phoenix. The weekend will also include behind the scenes looks at Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II. The schedule is as follows:
Wednesday:
7:30pm/6:30c – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Thursday:
3:30pm/2:30c – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
7pm/6:00c – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Friday:
4pm/3:00c – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
8pm/7:00c – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Saturday:
9am/8:00c – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
12:30pm/11:30c – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
4:30pm/3:30c – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
7:30pm/6:30c – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Sunday:
7am/6:00c – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
10:30am/9:30c – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2:30pm/1:30c – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
5:30pm/4:30c – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
9pm/8:00c – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Another preview for Maximum Movie Mode has been posted online and may be seen below. This clip shows host Matthew Lewis discussing Professor McGonagall and her relationship with Harry and her rebellious streak.
The Pottermore Insider blog has been updated letting fans know that the site is back online after a 3-day maintenance period. The update is as follows:
Following the scheduled three-day maintenance window, Pottermore is now back online.
The updates we’ve made over the past few days have mainly involved replacing hardware, so while you won’t see any obvious changes on the site itself, there has been a lot of work undertaken to help make the site run more smoothly.
You can help us test these behind-the-scenes improvements by logging in and using the site as you normally would: interacting with Moments, adding comments, brewing potions, etc. We’ll be monitoring Pottermore closely over the next few days to see how the site performs.
Also, if you are a Pottermore Beta user and have not yet completed the Beta survey, you have until Monday 7 November before we close it. You only need to complete the survey once, and it can be found here.
E! Online will be livestreaming the Harry Potter Celebration at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, FL from the 11-13th. They will be livestreaming on Saturday, Nov.12 at 8:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. PT for Live From the Red Carpet: The Ultimate Harry Potter Fan Party.
James and Oliver Phelps (Fred and George Weasley), Warwick Davis (Professor Flitwick, Griphook), Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood), Mark Williams (Arthur Weasley), David Bradley (Argus Filch), Jessie Cave (Lavender Brown) and maybe more will be in attendance!
Two articles, from EW and MTV, have some new information about the fates of Rubeus Hagrid and Remus Lupin from J.K. Rowling herself.
Rowling reveals that from the start, she always knew that the final chapters of the last novel would include these beats: That Harry would walk willingly to his death; that he would be joined by the spirits of his parents and other loved ones during that death march; and that Hagrid would carry Harry’s (apparently) lifeless body out of The Forbidden Forest. Rowling tells Radcliffe that the image of Hagrid cradling “dead” Harry — a bookend to the beginning of the series, when Hagrid brought infant Harry to the Dursleys – stuck with her the entire time she wrote the books and she never let it go. If she had, Rowling says Hagrid would have been a “natural” target for elimination. “That image kept him safe,” she says.
Rowling also reveals that in her original “sketch” (her word) of the series climax, one of the most beloved characters in the Potter canon survived: Remus Lupin […] On the DVD, Rowling shares with Radcliffe that when she created Lupin’s character, she planned for him to survive the finale. While the author has said as much in other interviews, here, she elaborates, explaining that she changed her mind when she realized that her last Harry Potter story was really about war, and that “one of the most horrifying things about war is how it leaves children fatherless and motherless.” The most powerful way she could dramatize that idea, she says, was to kill a set of parents that were dear to readers. “I had no intention of killing [Lupin],” says Rowling. “But then it dawned on me he had to die.”
Today we have two new videos from Harry Potter: The Quest. The first is a quick look at the Visual Effects in the final film and the second is from the Deathly Hallows: Part II London Press Conference and the cast members reveal their favorite props and costumes:
