Pottermore, as it turns out, is not a Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game, sadly. It might be the next best thing, though. Pottermore.com will be, come October, a “unique and free-to-use website which builds an exciting online experience” around the Harry Potter series. It will be something of an interactive web game full of unpublished material from Harry Potter.

The author has written thousands of words of new material “about the characters, places and objects in the much-loved stories, which will inform, inspire and entertain readers as they journey through the storylines of the books.

The website will also later serve as an exclusive place to purchase and download the novels in ebook and audio book form, without annoying DRM.

For further reading:

• Pottermore Announcement: Details on J. K. Rowling’s Next Harry Potter Project; Video, Pictures, Press Conference Quotes
• Full Text from J. K. Rowling Pottermore Press Conference
• J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore reveal: Harry Potter e-books and more

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A new website, Pottermore.com, has gone up. It’s pretty much a fancy “coming soon” page, with an accompanying Twitter profile and a countdown on Rowling’s YouTube channel.

Some of the editors at The Leaky Cauldron have seen a preview of Pottermore, and have described it as “breathtaking.” They say that it’s not a new book, but something “equally exciting.”

We’ll keep you posted as more information becomes available.

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Apparently the final fight between Harry and Voldemort has been…embellished a bit.

The Leaky Cauldron, as usual, has links to high-quality QuickTime, Windows Media, Flash and iPod-ready videos.

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, like its book counterpart, is far different from the rest of the series. Instead of spending their time at Hogwarts puzzling out Voldemort’s latest plot, Harry, Ron and Hermione spend the duration of the film on the run. The Death Eaters have taken over the Ministry of Magic and have imposed a regime reminiscent of Nazi Germany. The overall atmosphere is bleak, with the sense that danger is just over the horizon.

The three’s mission is to find and destroy the horcruxes keeping Lord Voldemort alive, and eventually defeat him. Of course, Voldemort has his own magical artifact to find, one of the mysterious Deathly Hallows.

Overall I liked the film. They did a good job at streamlining the somewhat unwieldy story that Rowling penned. The infamous camping scenes were pruned and tweaked to make their viewing bearable, and some details that were largely unimportant to the plot (such as Dumbledore’s history) were glossed over. I feel that the changes that were made were for the better, though they might disappoint some of the book purists.

That said, I am even more glad in retrospect that Warner Brothers decided to split the story into two movies. It would have been impossible to do the book justice in one.

One of my favorite scenes was the part where Harry and company sneak into the Ministry undercover to find a horcrux that they suspect is there. I won’t spoil the pure awesomeness of it for you, but I think the movie (and book) would have even better with more along those lines. (Harry conducting covert raids on the corrupted Ministry.) But that would have made for an even longer, less movie-suited story.

Long-time Harry Potter fans like myself will see this movie no matter what, so my opinion probably isn’t too important to you. Casual observers (those who didn’t read the books) will enjoy the movie too, though.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 will be released on July 15, 2011.

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They have also posted wallpapers for the movie on their Muggle Hub site.

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The Leaky Cauldron has already rounded up links to various video formats (FLV, WMV, MOV, M4V) released directly by Warner Brothers. Head over there if you wish to put the video on your iPod or download a high-definition copy.

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• QuickTime
• QuickTime HD (1080p)
• Windows Media (1080p HD)
• Flash
• iPod

It’s about two minutes long and shows scenes from both parts one and two of the movie. Part one will be released on November 19, 2010 and the second part will be available the following July.

Thanks to HPANA for the video links.

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Part one of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released in theaters on November 19, 2010.

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The fire was caused by explosives being used during the production.

“We were shooting the scenes where Hogwarts gets blown up during the battle. But fire managed to catch hold of the set and it went up in flames. It was completely out of control at one point.”

The damage has been estimated as high as £110,000. Warner Brothers has stated that production is continuing as planned, despite the setback.

Source: Coventry Telegraph

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There is a new video preview for the game that looks promising, the tongue-in-cheek humor of the Star Wars games still obviously present. A website for the game is now online as well.

A release date has not been announced yet, but some retailers are expecting mid-March.

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