JKR has updated her diary on her website!!! She discusses how she is glad that Leaky, and other HP sites are not going to post spoilers or tolerate them at all. I fully agree, you will not see any spoilers on this site, because 1. I don’t want to ruin the book for myself (it happened to me for HBP) and 2. I don’t want to ruin it for you guys. So my site will stay spoiler free.

There will always be sad individuals who get their kicks from ruining other people’s fun, but while sites like Leaky take such an active stance against them, we may yet win. Even if the biggest secret gets out – even if somebody discovers the Giant Squid is actually the world’s largest Animagus, which rises from the lake at the eleventh hour, transforms into Godric Gryffindor and… well, I wouldn’t like to spoil it.

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JK Rowling has chosen a new fan site for her Fan Site Award on her website. She chose Harry Potter Fan Zone.

How could I not love a fansite whose contributors include people named Thaddeus and Aunna? This is a great Australian site with an impressively young staff who have produced some really insightful editorials; I wish I could highlight a couple of them, but that would be waaaay too revealing. If you head over to FAQs, however, you will see some of the open letter questions answered (at long last, yes, I know… but I had to finish “Deathly Hallows” first)

So congratulations and thanks, Andy, to you and all your talented colleagues

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Thanks HPANA!

J.K. Rowling, Emma Thompson (Professor Trelawney), and Julie Walters (Molly Weasley) have been chosen in The Daily Mail’s 25 Women We Love.

Read the article HERE.

Thanks Leaky!

JKR has updated the FAQ section of her website (About the Books to be more exact)!!!! She talks about Draco, Voldemort, Tonks, Myrtle and 2 death eaters.

Click read more to see!

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TIME’s 100 Most Influencial People poll is now over. J.K. Rowling placed 6th. Here are the top 10:

1. Rain
2. Stephen Colbert
3. Sanjaya Malakar
4. Dane Cook
5. Sidney Crosby
6. J.K. Rowling
7. Richard Dawkins
8. Kiefer Sutherland
9. Shigeru Miyamoto
10. Bono

See the full list HERE.

Dale Neuschwander, a Minnasota native, was a student teacher in the UK and taught Harry Potter author JK Rowling when she was 13 years old (in an Advanced English class).

“The teacher had made notes about his students, to let me know what they were like, and he wrote ‘extremely intelligent’ beside her name,” Neuschwander said.

“She got straight A’s and A-pluses in creative writing,”

“I do recall an extensive vocabulary for one so young,” he said. “I was also amused by her witty use of informal language in essays (slang, regionalisms, etc.). She has a good sense of humor.”

Read the whole article HERE

Thanks HPANA!