The Pottermore Insider blog has been updated to let fans know that all one million welcome emails for Pottermore Beta Testing have been sent out! This means we are a lot closer to Pottermore being open to the general public, so if you weren’t one of the lucky one million, never fear, you will be able to enjoy Pottermore soon.

Earlier today, we sent out the one-millionth Welcome email – which means that everyone who successfully registered for the Beta should now have access to Pottermore.

We’re expecting the site to be extremely busy over the next 24 hours as people log in and explore Pottermore for the first time. As such, you may have to wait to sign in but please keep trying if you aren’t able to gain entry straight away.

Fans who get the WB Insider newsletter will already have read about the sweepstakes to win a trip for four to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter’s A Celebration of Harry Potter this November.  For those of you that haven’t the details are as follows:

Grand Prize: One (1) Grand Prize Winner and Three (3) Guests will receive the following:
– Travel airfare to and from The Wizarding World of Harry Potter Universal in Orlando, Florida *
– Hotel accommodations for 3 days/4 nights, two (2) hotel rooms provided
– Four (4) Park-to-Park Tickets for 3 days
– Four (4) Reservations to Autograph Sessions
– Four (4) Reservations to Sunday Night Event with Cast
– Four (4) Reservations to QA Sessions
– Four (4) Admissions to the Nighttime Gala Event
– One (1) Harry Potter Blu-ray Collection (For Grand Prize Winner only)

*If Grand Prize Winner should reside in the State of Florida and within close proximity to Orlando, the airfare may be substituted by Sponsor, in its sole discretion, for ground transportation.

To enter and win you must be at least 13 years old, live in the USA and be a member of the WB Insider Rewards program, full rules may be read here.

Fans in the UK will get a special treat if they go see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II this weekend. This weekend, for one weekend only, a cinema visit to see ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part Two’ just got even more rewarding. As a special celebration of the film event of a generation, UK cinemagoers who see the film at participating cinemas between September 30th and the 2nd of October will get a free limited edition lenticular (3D) poster from the cinema box office when they collect their ticket. Posters will be available strictly on a first come first served basis on all tickets purchased to see this film during the qualifying period. Terms and conditions and a full list of participating cinemas can be found here: http://wwws.warnerbros.co.uk/poster/

The poster may be seen below:

Thanks to ThinkJam who emailed on behalf of WB for the news.

This past Thursday James and Oliver Phelps received honorary membership to UCD Law Soc in Dublin. They made a little speech and answered a bunch of fan questions all of which may be read at this page.  You can also view a bunch of photos over at this Facebook page.

Q: Ever laughed on set?
USUAL ANSWER…RUPERT!!!
James: It was Order of the Phoenix…the bit where The Room od Requirement is discovered..and the camera pans over the cast…Rupert goes: (covers mouth and makes su ppressed laughter sound) and then i went (suppressed laughter).

Q:Are you on Pottermore?
Oliver: I tried to register…(laughter)..will try again.

Q:Do you plan on continuing acting?
James:well, we are both in talks at the minute for separate projects. (communal awwww!) we were afraid we’d kill each other… and we have different interests..

Q:If you could take any object from the wizarding world? what would it be?
O: Portkey…waiting in airports queues is horrible..
J: Hermione’s Handbag…(LAUGHTER) not the handbag..just that you can shove as much stuff as you want in..

Q: How has it changed your lives?
J: we get to travel alot..they let us,Tom and some friends into the Louvre after hours..it was like us (makes thumbs up pose) with the Mona Lisa!

Q: Who is the mechanical head outside Weasley’s Wizard Weezes based on?
O: James…

Thanks to Danaholics Anonymous

Emma Watson recently spoke to Hello! Magazine and now thanks to SS we have scans from the issue that you can view in the gallery.  In the interview she talks about love, her Lancome campaign and more. Some snippets from the interview may be read below:

You were involved in the storyline for the film for a campaign – about a chance meeting in Paris between a beautiful woman and a handsome shop assistant… What I love about the story that we put together is that it’s more about fate, about chance that brings the two characters together. It’s the idea that life is magical and full of surprises and that you never know what’s going to be at the next turn or the net corner.

The film hints at a came of love. Are you romantic? I’ve always been a hopeless romantic. I think, ‘Why not?’ It’s nice. I think there’s a perception that perhaps my generation doesn’t believe in romance so much. I would be tempted to disagree and say we do still believe in romance, seduction and gallantry, but that courtship and the game is played a different way.

You are now a fashion leader. Who are your favorite designers? Just casually, I love to wear Isabel Marant, APC, Agnes B and Chloe.

Tell us about Hermione, the role that changed your life… Hermione is my literary heroine. She is such a great character and a wonderful person, so I feel incredibly privileged to have played her and to have started my career in the way I have. And now, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint are like my brothers.

Who would you most like to work with? Emma: I would love to work with directors Baz Luhrmann, Guillermo del Toro, Richard Curtis and Darren Aronofsky. In terms of actors, I love Philip Seymour Hoffman, James McAvoy, Cate Blanchett and Helen Mirren. I’d love to do some Shakespeare one day and play Juliet or Ophelia.

In a new press release Sony has revealed that it will be offering a “Harry Potter 3D Experience” to those people who buy either the BDP-S780 Blu-ray Disc player with 3D or BDV-E580 Blu-ray 3D home theater system beginning on November 11th.

This will include Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 and 2 on BluRay 3D, a 2D BluRay version of each film AND digital vouchers to watch Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets through Video Unlimited. Additionally, the same Harry Potter 3D titles will be bundled with two pairs of Sony active 3D glasses, TDG-BR250/DBL, as a “3D starter kit.”

So fans who want to see Harry Potter in 3D in their own homes are advised to wait until November to buy a 3D player and to do so with Sony! The full press release may be read below:

Sony announced today that beginning November 11, with the purchase of select Sony 3D products, consumers will receive the “Harry Potter 3D Experience” with a Blu-ray 3D™ of the Warner Bros. blockbusters ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows™ Part 1’ and ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows™ Part 2.’ The exclusive bundles also include a 2D Blu-ray Disc™ of each film and digital movie vouchers to enjoy the 2D versions of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone™ and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets™ on compatible devices through Video Unlimited on the Sony Entertainment Network or PlayStation^®Store.

This exclusive “Harry Potter 3D Experience” will be available to consumers who purchase Sony’s BDP-S780 Blu-ray Disc player with 3D or BDV-E580 Blu-ray 3D home theater system.  Additionally, the same Harry Potter 3D titles will be bundled with two pairs of Sony active 3D glasses, TDG-BR250/DBL, as a “3D starter kit.”

*To watch the movies via Video Unlimited on Sony Entertainment Network, use selected models of BRAVIA^® LCD TVs, Blu-ray Disc players, Blu-ray Disc home theater systems and PlayStation^®3 computer entertainment system. To watch the movie(s) via PlayStation^® Store, use PlayStation^®3.