It was about 3:20 a.m. yesterday when my phone rang: It was David Yates, the soft-spoken British director whose second "Harry Potter" film, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," arrives in theaters across America on July 15.

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A man is in hospital with serious back injuries after being injured on the set of the latest Harry Potter film. Paramedics were called to Leavesden Studios near Watford, where Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is understood to be in production.

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

The last few years have seen me reading fewer and fewer books. There are only so many hours in the day and my reduced book-reading activity seems to have been replaced with an increased internet-browsing addiction. I've also been watching less television too.

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No more trips to Hogwarts. No more will-they-or-won't-they for Ron and Hermione. No more theorizing if Snape is good or evil. Has the magic gone from your life?

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Italian Harry Potter fans are bracing for fresh excitement and marketing razzmatazz on Thursday night when the translation of the final book in the saga goes on sale across the nation.

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LONDON (Reuters) - J.K. Rowling is to say goodbye to Harry Potter with a handwritten set of fairytales mentioned in her last wizard saga that she will auction for her children's charity.

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She was asked by one young fan whether Dumbledore finds "true love." "Dumbledore is gay," the author responded to gasps and applause.

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Author JK Rowling suffered an embarrassing Janet Jackson-style wardrobe-malfunction during a public reading of her final Harry Potter installment in Hollywood.

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Top 10 Books for September 2007 voted by people at : 1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling 2. Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay 3. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt 4.

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The Harry Potter film series has become the most successful in box office history, beating James Bond and Star Wars.

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Speculation that the Edinburgh book festival may have resolved one of the burning questions of modern publishing - what JK Rowling will write next - have been dashed this afternoon, when the Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin diagnosed a case of festival fever.

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And so now the hurly-burly's done, the battle's lost and won — the Battle of Hogwarts, that is — and all the secrets are out of the Sorting Hat. Those who bet Harry Potter would die lost their money; the boy who lived turned out to be exactly that.

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Innuendo in Harry Potter

These quotes from the Harry Potter books, painstakingly compiled by a group on Facebook, invite a less innocent interpretation than (we assume) intended by JK Rowling. Some of these are very very funny.

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JK ROWLING has revealed what happens to many of the characters in the Harry Potter series after the final book. In a 90-minute live webchat yesterday, the author dealt with around 120,000 questions submitted by devotees.

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The Rev. Vail Weller, at Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo, said students enrolled in the congregation's summer religious programs were able to align things from the book with their own particular traditions. "Harry Potter is a great fit for us," she said recently.

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World Famous KROQ radio morning show "Kevin and Bean" have a sneak peek spoof of the newest "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" audiobook. Listen to Chapter 1, 3 and 31.

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Some are blaming the 57.8% drop-off for Harry Potter And The Order of The Phoenix on last week's release of the last Harry Potter book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, [see here]. I disagree with this assessment.

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Excerpt: "There has been an explosion of Harry Potter madness coinciding with the series' seventh book - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" - and fifth movie - "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." This has driven some people to look closer at the magic.

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humor, politics, cartoons, comics, webcomics, dick cheney, lord voldemort, harry potter, jk rowling, deathly hallows, book 7

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Excerpt: "Rowling's work is so familiar that we've forgotten how radical it really is. Look at her literary forebears. In The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien fused his ardent Catholicism with a deep, nostalgic love for the unspoiled English landscape. C.S.

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I never really liked Harry Potter. I never really sought him out in any of his books.

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Harry Potter dies......................................................or does he live. Snape is true, I was right my kids wrong, that's all that matters to me.

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Wanna make some easy money? Tell your friends you don't think Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will debut at #1 on The New York Times Bestseller List. Heck, you don't think it will even make the Top Ten! Then give them ten to one odds.

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The last Harry Potter reads like an acid trip

*Spoiler Alert* This article is a grumbling rumination over what happened in the last Harry Potter book, and it might possibly ruin the plot if you didn't read it.

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