Alan Horn, president of Warner Bros., has issued a statement for fans in direct response to fans complaining about the release date change.

The decision to move Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was not taken lightly, and was never intended to upset our Harry Potter fans. We know you have built this series into what it is, and we thank you for your ongoing enthusiasm and support.

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The Gryffindor Gazette has found some leaked HBP scripts, wee. Ha ha. They found it through this thread on IMDB. Not sure if it is real, but it seems that way

Click Read more to read them, dont wanna post any of it here since some people don’t want spoilers. =)

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The 2008 Costa Book Awards polled 2,000 adults about who their favourite authors were. J.K. Rowling came third on the list.

.K. Rowling also won the Mythopoeic Fantasy award for children’s literature.

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The Canadian Press has a new article where they reveal some interesting information about the HBP delay.

The studio had been mulling the date change for three or four weeks, “but it really didn’t kind of get on the front-burner until sometime within the last seven days,” Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. head of distribution, said Sunday. Entertainment Weekly’s “deadline must have been earlier than the decision, than when we started to get serious about making the decision,” Fellman said.

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire will be on ABC Family this weekend! It will be showing on Saturday and Sunday at 7:30/6:30 C both nights.

Enjoy!

Scholastic has a new interview with Tom Felton, yay! I really want to post all of it right here because I LOVE Tom, but I will resist.

You’ve posted some music videos on YouTube where you play the guitar and sing. Are those all original songs, and how long have you been writing and performing? I won’t lie. This is the first time an interviewer has asked me about that. […] we just figured the best way to do that was to put it onto YouTube — under an alias, obviously. But it didn’t stay hidden very long, and now it’s very much sort of in the public domain. […], but yeah, they are original songs and obviously not sort of developed by any means but just sort of a little early draft, if you will. Just a bit of fun! But it seems to have a positive response, so I’m enjoying it.

Are there any Draco Malfoy moments from the books that you’re disappointed weren’t included in the movie? No, I wouldn’t think so. I mean, I remember reading the book before and thinking, “Oh, lord!  This’ll be fun! I was especially looking forward to the pool in the bathroom and being able to stamp on young Potter’s face on the Hogwarts Express. I was always looking forward to the things of a physical nature.  But they all got included, so no let-downs there.

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