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  • June 2008

    • Oprah Tops Powerful Celebs List Again

      newser  |  Forbes  |  Jun 12, 08 11:12 AM CDT

      Oprah Tops Powerful Celebs List Again

      Forbes ranks the 100 most powerful celebs of 2008 (complete with tweens), and Oprah leads the pack for the second year running. Stars are judged on the size of their paychecks and media clout, including their showing on the Internet. Here's how the A-listers stacked up: Oprah Winfrey Tiger Woods Angelina Jolie Beyonce Knowles David Beckham   More »

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      list  • celebrity  • media  • Tiger Woods  • Oprah Winfrey  • Angelina Jolie  • Brad Pitt  • JK Rowling  • David Beckham  • Johnny Depp  • Jay-Z  • Beyonce  • rich  • Forbes  • The Police

    • Rowling's Potter Prequel Conjures Up $49K for Charity

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Jun 11, 08 5:01 AM CDT

      Rowling's Potter Prequel Conjures Up $49K for Charity

      JK Rowling’s handwritten “prequel” to the Harry Potter books has sold for $49,000 at a charity auction to benefit the PEN writers organization, Reuters reports. In the 800-word story, which takes place before Harry’s birth, the boy wizard’s father and Sirius Black use magic to elude police in a high-speed chase. The work also manages to brush aside rumors that an eighth Potter book is in the works. More »

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      auction  • Harry Potter  • charity  • JK Rowling  • wizard

    • Rowling Casts Spell at Harvard

      newser  |  Boston Globe  |  Jun 6, 08 7:10 AM CDT

      Rowling Casts Spell at Harvard

      Harry Potter birth mom JK Rowling yesterday urged Harvard graduates at their commencement to use their imaginations on more than wizards and muggles to envision—and create—a better world. She recalled the rewarding time she spent when she was younger working for prisoners of totalitarian regimes for Amnesty International. "Those who choose not to empathize" with people suffering "enable real monsters," she said. More »

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      Harry Potter  • Harvard  • JK Rowling  • Amnesty International  • commencement speech  • political prisoner  • wizard  • Albus Dumbledore

  • May 2008

    • JK Rowling Pens Potter Prequel

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  May 29, 08 3:49 AM CDT

      JK Rowling Pens Potter Prequel

      Harry Potter fans mourned when JK Rowling ended the enormously popular schoolboy wizard saga with the seventh and final book last year. But now she has written a surprise short prequel likely to trigger a bidding frenzy. Rowling has donated an 800-word handwritten manuscript to the British bookseller Waterstone's to be auctioned for charity. More »

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      Harry Potter  • JK Rowling  • Harry Potter Lexicon  • witches

    • Famously Bad Poet Fetches Big Bucks at Auction

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  May 17, 08 8:05 AM CDT

      Famously Bad Poet Fetches Big Bucks at Auction

      William McGonagall had a tough time after deciding poetry was his calling, being roundly insulted by critics and even pelted with rotten fruit. But the 19th-century Scotsman has been remembered long after his peers—as the worst poet ever to mangle the English language. His works commanded a price higher than a J.K Rowling first edition at an auction yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reports. More »

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      literature  • JK Rowling  • Scotland  • poetry

    • Judges Back Rowling in Case Over Son Pics

      newser  |  Reuters  |  May 7, 08 3:12 PM CDT

      Judges Back Rowling in Case Over Son Pics

      A British court approved JK Rowling’s request to ban publication of a photograph of her son, Reuters reports, reversing a lower circuit's ruling. "If a child of parents who are not in the public eye could reasonably expect not to have photographs of him published in the media, so too should the child of a famous parent," the ruling read. More »

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      celebrity  • media  • Harry Potter  • paparazzi  • JK Rowling  • photographs  • photographers

    • Don't Get Comfy, Harry Potter

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  May 5, 08 4:27 PM CDT

      Don't Get Comfy, Harry Potter

      Both are fantasists who've sold zillions of books, but in a recent poll of American children, the classic wins out: Dr. Seuss' works are more popular than JK Rowling's. Three million-plus kids weighed in on an educational software company's website, and Rowling's Harry Potter books trail works by EB White, Judy Blume, and Harper Lee, among others, the Washington Post reports. More »

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      children  • book  • Harry Potter  • JK Rowling  • reading  • Dr. Seuss  • Harper Lee

    • After 10 Years, Harry Potter Off NYT Best-Seller List

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 1, 08 6:35 PM CDT

      After 10 Years, Harry Potter Off NYT Best-Seller List

      As the next edition of the New York Times Book Review goes to press, an era ends—books from author JK Rowling's Harry Potter series, for the first time in 10 years, are nowhere on the best-seller list. More »

  • April 2008

    • Harry Potter Full of Gibberish, Judge Says

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Apr 17, 08 7:59 PM CDT

      Harry Potter Full of Gibberish, Judge Says

      The judge in the Harry Potter copyright case gave the man who compiled The Harry Potter Lexicon a one-up against JK Rowling today when he announced that her books were full of gibberish, the Telegraph reports. He said he tried reading one to his grandkids and found it "extremely complex" and suggested that a guidebook would be handy. He won't issue his ruling for several weeks and urged both sides to settle out of court. More »

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      trial  • Harry Potter  • copyright  • JK Rowling  • copyright infringement  • plagiarism  • Harry Potter Lexicon

    • Embattled Potter Fan Moved to Tears in Court

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Apr 15, 08 5:21 PM CDT

      Embattled Potter Fan Moved to Tears in Court

      The Harry Potter fan whose attempt to put into print his encyclopedic companion brought a lawsuit from author JK Rowling, broke down in tears in a Manhattan court today discussing how much the books mean to him, the AP reports. Steven Vander Ark became distraught when asked how the lawsuit had affected his relationship with the world of Potter fans. More »

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      Harry Potter  • JK Rowling  • Harry Potter Lexicon  • Steven Vander Ark

    • Rowling Slams Potter Reference Project in Court

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 14, 08 3:21 PM CDT

      Rowling Slams Potter Reference Project in Court

      Author JK Rowling today slammed a planned print version of a fan's Harry Potter Lexicon as exploiting her ideas, the New York Times reports. “My readership parting with their or their parents’ hard earned cash for this—I think it’s a travesty," Potter's creator complained in court. Rowling praised the original Web incarnation, but objects to publishing a book for profit. More »

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      Harry Potter  • JK Rowling  • Harry Potter Lexicon

  • March 2008
  • February 2008

    • Rowling Blasts Unauthorized Spinoff

      newser  |  New York Daily News  |  Feb 29, 08 2:15 PM CST

      Rowling Blasts Unauthorized Spinoff

      As part of her ongoing effort to keep a fan from publishing a Harry Potter encyclopedia, J.K. Rowling is suggesting that the book would violate the wizarding world's moral and ethical standards, reports the New York Daily News . “I am very frustrated that a former fan has tried to co-opt my work for financial gain,” she wrote in a letter to a federal judge. More »

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      Harry Potter  • JK Rowling  • Harry Potter Lexicon  • encyclopedia  • Steven Vander Ark

  • January 2008
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  • November 2007

    • Harry Charms Students Into Success

      newser  |  Time  |  Nov 22, 07 5:42 AM CST

      Harry Charms Students Into Success

      The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry it is not, but a suburban Nottingham school is using Harry Potter’s magic to get results. Primary students chose JK Rowling’s enchanted novels as their curriculum theme, a system school officials launched to raise lagging test scores. Subjects are laced with riffs on the books, and activities plunge students into Harry’s supernatural world. More »

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      England  • Harry Potter  • school  • JK Rowling

    • Ignore Potter, and Be Doomed to Irrelevance?

      newser  |  Esquire  |  Nov 3, 07 11:09 AM CDT

      Ignore Potter, and Be Doomed to Irrelevance?

      Lord Voldemort is the Darth Vader of the 21st century—if you don’t know what that means, you could be at a massive cultural disadvantage in a decade or two. Esquire 's Chuck Klosterman claims he hasn’t read a page of the Harry Potter series—hearing Harry didn’t die at series’ end, he “wasn’t even aware he was sick”—and he doesn't want to. But he worries out loud that he'll be punished for opting out when readers grow up. More »

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      Harry Potter  • JK Rowling  • culture  • Star Wars

    • New JK Rowling Book Headed to Auction Block

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Nov 1, 07 4:26 PM CDT

      New JK Rowling Book Headed to Auction Block

      JK Rowling is about to redefine the meaning of "limited edition," publishing only 7 handwritten and hand-illustrated copies of her new book, The Tales of Beedle the Bard , the Daily Telegraph reports. Six copies of the fairy tale collection by the Harry Potter author will go to friends; the seventh is to be auctioned Dec. 13, with proceeds going to charity.  More »

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      Harry Potter  • JK Rowling  • Sotheby's

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