Bloomsbury has updated their Beedle the Bard page with videos of JK Rowling on the release day!  View them all below!

J.K Rowling wrote an excerpt for The Birthday Book, which commemorates the Prince of Wales’ 60th birthday; the proceeds from which will benefit the The Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts.  You can go here or click More to read part of the excerpt!

Thanks The Leaky Cauldron!

Melissa has posted another part of her interview with JK Rowling!  In it she talks about spoilers.

“I remember there was a journalist, a TV journalist, who said at the time, very flippantly, ‘Ha, ha, it’s all publicity, isn’t it?” It just felt so out of control at that point, just felt so out of control that the manuscript had suspiciously turned up in a field, that this guy who had supposedly found it just thought, ‘Oh, well, the best thing I can do here is phone some newspaper. … And then of course we hit book six and we think we’ve seen the most out-there attempt to get a Harry Potter manuscript early, and of course we haven’t come close because the we get the guy with the gun. That was pretty serious, that really was not funny. Fiddy told me and I thought it was a joke. I thought she was making a joke.

JK Rowling has updated her official site with information on the Beedle the Bard release!

As some of you will already know, I will be helping to launch ‘The Tales of Beedle the Bard’ with a Beedle tea party at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh on 4th December. I’m delighted that the book will now be available to everyone, with the net proceeds of sales going to the Children’s High Level Group, the charity I helped found which works with vulnerable children across Eastern Europe.

I hope that ‘The Tales of Beedle the Bard’ will not only be a welcome Christmas present to Harry Potter fans, but an opportunity to give these abandoned children a voice.

The book is going to be released on December 4th. Order it HERE!

J.K. Rowling has donated an autographed set of all seven Harry Potter books to benefit and support research on the disease Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP). The book set will be auctioned on eBay from Sunday, November 30th, at 8:00pm, to Sunday, December 7th.

Thanks Harry Potter’s Page!

Melissa has posted another part of her interview with JK Rowling!

JKR: In many ways it would have been a neater ending to kill him. For sure, I knew that all along. felt that the books’ overriding message was that love is the most powerful force in this world. My model with Harry really was war veterans, who have seen horrors and are asked to go home and rebuild, and go back to ordinary life and care for a family, be a father – particularly be a father – [it is] a difficult job, in troubled times. I felt it would be a betrayal of my character if I did anything other than show him doing that. And I think it’s an absolutely heroic thing to do, to go home after that, not to become a mercenary, not to live forever frozen in a time of excitement and danger, but to be mentally strong enough, to an extent physically strong enough, to return from war and to raise a new generation with values that you hope will not lead to another war. That’s massive.

Of course you can say, yes, to an extent, as ever in life, that’s the eternal paradox. What’s is most worthwhile may well be seen as slightly dull, but God knows without those people who were prepared to come home and raise the family and rebuild, help rebuild… rebuilding is much more difficult than destroying. So, I felt it was almost a cop-out, morally, to kill him. I wanted to show a man who, yeah, he went back and got his hands dirty and tried to rebuild. I liked that. And again, it made a lot of people were livid, but God knows by that time I was used to that by then!