There is a new article online stating the scariest villains in literature. “Meanwhile, the only villain by a modern author ranked among the truly terrifying by readers was the evil wizard Voldermort, who terrorises Harry Potter and his friends in the books by JK Rowling.”

1 White Witch (The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis – 1950)
2 Captain Hook (Peter Pan by JM Barrie – 1904)
3 The Grand High Witch (The Witches by Roald Dahl – 1983)
4 Wicked Stepmother (Snow White by Brothers Grimm – 1810)
5 Cruella De Vil (The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith – 1956)
6 Voldemort (Harry Potter books by JK Rowling – 1997)
7 The Child Catcher (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming – from the 1968 film. Not the original book)
8 Miss Trunchbull (Matilda by Roald Dahl – 1988)
9 The Wolf (Red Riding Hood by Brothers Grimm – 1810)
10 Long John Silver (Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson – 1883)

Beedle the Bard has raised a huge sum of money in its first week on sale.

2.6 million copies have been sold worldwide generating £4.2 million for the Children’s High Level Group (CHLG), the charity co-founded by JK Rowling to help vulnerable children in Central and Eastern Europe.

Hey guys!! I just received some AWESOME books in the mail today.  First I got my regular and limited editions of Beedle the Bard. Second, I got the Scholastic School Market only version of Sorcerer’s Stone (VERY RARE). So I will have some photos of Beedle and the SS book.

Those will be up later today, I am going to be bad and not work on my finals for a little while while I do that 😉

UPDATE: The photos are up! See them HERE!

The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling, has become the fastest selling book of 2008 in the United Kindom, selling 367,625 copies in the first three days! 

It has also knocked Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight off the number 1 spot on USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list!!!!

Thanks HPANA!

There is a new article online that is very interesting to read.  It talks about the possibility of Beedle the Bard being a movie.

None of these stories seems to have any connection to the other, which ought to make it difficult for Warners to fit them all into a single film. Could they be planning five movies? That would seem unwise. These are short stories after all, it’s unlikely there’s enough material in any one story to justify a feature film.

According to our sources, Warners is still trying to figure out exactly how to make this work. But there’s definitely a strong interest in making Tales of Beedle The Bard: The Movie happen, once Harry Potter is over with.

Thanks BlogHogwarts

Steve Vander Arks’ Harry Potter Lexicon book will now  be released next year after he makes some changes to the content. Details about the changes can be read here.

“An Unauthorized Guide to Harry Potter Fiction and Related Materials” appears boldly below “The Lexicon” title and above author Steve Vander Ark’s name. A full paragraph on the otherwise sparse cover further details the fact that neither Rowling nor a host of others with trademarks and other interests in the Harry Potter series had any part in the book.