The Harry Potter game website has been updated so you can now play a demo of the upcoming Wizarding World of Harry Potter DVD game!

Go to this link to play!

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The US official Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince website has a new theme based on the DVD. It has new links to information about the live screening event December 12th with Dan Radcliffe and David Yates.

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Thanks once again to my lovely friends at HP4U we have 2 new photos from Deathly Hallows! They are of the outside and inside of the Burrow.

This weeks treat HP4U visitors comes in the form of a couple of photos from the new look ‘Burrows’ the home of course to the Weasley Family, enjoy and check out those magical saucepans!

View the awesome photos here in the gallery!

Rotten Tomatoes recently spoke to John Hurt, who plays Ollivander in the first Harry Potter film, and will reprise his role in Deathly Hallows about the movie and about the film industry!

You’re returning to Harry Potter for the final films having appeared in the very first one, how has it been to come back?
JH: I’ve filmed one, which actually is the last one, and now I’ve got the penultimate one to do which is in November, and that wraps it all up. It’s a big loss for Britain in terms of having a big studio movie here, but it’s not representative of our culture in terms of the films that we make. I am convinced that though Pinewood and Shepperton — the big studios — playing host to big movies is very important, our film business is in the independent world. Of that I’m convinced.
Do you think the big franchise movies shooting in the UK give a false impression of the health of our industry? All these productions move in and hire local talent, but they aren’t British films.
JH: No, they’re not British films. Even Harry Potter isn’t a British [franchise]. We gave it to Warners, we just sit and collect. That always infuriates me. I do think huge areas of the industry are being neglected and we’ve lost the ability for middle-budget films. When we did have a stronger industry — and not just a business — we did have room for middle-budget films. They’ve gone out of the window, as they’ve done in America as well, but a $20m picture would be wonderful to make every now and then. We could do a lot for that.

But it’s like any country, if you don’t have a lot of money to spend. And it’s interesting seeing how much money gets spent on Harry Potter. It’s quite absurd, really. I watch it and think it’s just the same as Hollywood. I look around and you’ve got three costumes there, none of which are likely to be worn, and they’re all replicas of each other. It’s a vacuous waste of money and it drives me insane.

J.K. Rowling donated a signed copy of the deluxe U.S. edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to the Little Auction that Could, the proceeds of which will benefit a shelter for abused and neglected children set up by the organisation’s head, Karla Preissman.

The collection of books, including Jo’s, will be auctioned through eBay from November 6-29. The set will be displayed during that time at the Elliott Museum in Stuart, Florida.

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Matthew just updated his Twitter to let fans know that he is at a charity event called Concert for CARE right now, with Bonnie (Wright, I assume) and a friend Jodie.  If photos from the event come online I will definitely be posting them, unless they are paparazzi shots.

At Concert for CARE, charity gig in London with Bonnie and Jodie. The rather wonderful Kaiser Chiefs and incredible Gary Barlow are playing.

Proceeds from the show will go to CARE international which is one of the largest international relief and humanitarian organizations in the world.

‘Concert for CARE’ is the brainchild of David Arnold, one of Britain’s most successful film and television composers and ambassador for CARE International (CARE). CARE works in 70 countries and helps 55 million people to find ways out of poverty each year.

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