Thanks to Leaky there is a HUGE article on the NYC reading with lots of great information! There will be spoilers when you click Read More! So if you haven’t finished Deathly Hallows don’t go there.

I will be adding this information to the Post Deathly Hallows page tomorrow since I am off to bed now.

Some more pictures from the open book tour are now online.  These new ones are from New York City, where JK Rowling is today.

View them HERE!

There are now 2 more articles with interviews with author JK Rowling. You can read them HERE and HERE (or click Read More).

“I told all of them little bits, [but] I told Emma Watson the most,” Rowling said of the actress who plays Hermione Granger, who in the seventh novel finally gets her romantic moment with Ron Weasley. “She nearly fell off the chair laughing when I told her who she had to kiss.”

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“They’re very British books, so on a very practical note Harry was going to find biblical quotations on tombstones,” Rowling explained. “[But] I think those two particular quotations he finds on the tombstones at Godric’s Hollow, they sum up — they almost epitomize the whole series.”

There are a bunch of things online now from the beginning of JK Rowlings Book Tour!

• There are two videos that you can view here and here.
• You can also view pictures here.
• And two articles here and here (you can also click read more for these.)

When someone asked how a reported Harry Potter encyclopedia was going, Rowling simply laughed. “It’s not coming along,” she said, “and I haven’t started writing it. I never said it was the next thing I’d do.”

“Snape is vindictive, he’s cruel. He’s not a big man,” she insisted. “But he loves. I like him, but I’d also like to slap him hard.”

Enjoy!

The Sunday Mail has a new article with information about JK Rowling’s Book Tour in the US this week.

Her first stop on the 10-day tour is tomorrow at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, where the Oscars take place.

Following her stop-over in New Orleans, she has two readings in New York, where she will meet 4000 Potter fans at Carnegie Hall.

She will then go to Toronto on October 23 for the International “Festival of Authors.”

To anyone who is going to a reading, HAVE FUN! and you can write a report for the site if you want!

Common Sense Media has announced their 2007 awards winners and JK Rowling has won one!

“Our winners get an ‘ONnie’ award for bringing us great, family-friendly entertainment, and providing leadership on kids and media issues,” said Common Sense Media CEO James Steyer.

2007 Common Sense Media “ONnie” Awards

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J.K. Rowling and the Harry Potter series: At a time when reading has never faced more competition for kids’ time and attention, this series single-handedly reversed a worldwide trend. The Harry Potter series has enthralled a generation of kids (and their parents).

Congrats JK!