Book V Revelation?

Thanks to the Winky Webmistress from French Harry Potter site Potter World Online, we've discovered an interesting snippet about Book V on site of French publisher Gallimard. Highlight to read:

Book V Plans in Texas

The Waco Tribune has an article about plans for the Lone Star State and Book V.
Incidently, we've only got two listings of Book V events in Texas, aside from Hastings, Borders and Barnes & Noble which are all book chains. If you know any we're missing, please let us know.

Movie Trio NOT Making Book V Appearance

There is a rumor on the Web that Dan Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint will be making a June 21/Book V appearance - we've received word from a couple of places (including WB) that says this is not true. The word is that the movies are not to mix up with the books (and shouldn't, in my opinion!).Continued...

Borders Finally Announces Release Plans

Borders Group Inc put out a press release today announcing their store plans for the Book V release. All Borders stores will be open past 12am with some great plans - Herbology lessons in Indiana, Diagon Alley in Missouri and the Great Hall in Massachusetts.
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No Mathemagician

According to the National Post, Canadian mathematician Dr. Ivar Ekeland blames Harry Potter, at least in part, for the decline in children's interest in the sciences. Ekeland "says the magic and sorcery glorified by the popular books discourage children from wanting to understand the real world through science."Continued...

Mary GrandPre Interview from Family Fun

Thanks Sandi, for this .pdf of an interview with Mary Grand Pre from June/July's Family Fun magazine.

Chat with CBBC Newsround's Lizo Mzimba About Harry Potter - Live on TV

Want to be on TV? Want to talk about Order of the Phoenix? Want to talk about Order of the Phoenix on TV? How about win an all-expenses paid trip to London to do it?
The CBBC Newsround show has announced a contest.

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OotP Surpasses 500,000 Pre-Orders on Amazon.com

According to Reuters, book pre-ordrs for OotP have surpassed 500,000. And that's just one Web site.

Reminder: US Contest to win trip to Rowling Event in UK Deadline Today

Thanks to Laura for the reminder - those of you who are not yet 18 and are planning on entering the Scholastic Essay Contest to win an all-expense paid trip to London, England to hear J.K. Rowling answer questions and read from her new novel...need to have your entries postmarkedContinued...

Chris Rankin AKA Percy Weasley Takes Part in Book V Events

ChrisRankin.com has announced that Chris Rankin, who plays the role of Percy Weasley in the Harry Potter movies, will be participating in 3 Book V launch events - one in Norwich for the midnight release and two on Saturday; one in Barking and another in Windsor.

Scholastic Launches Book V Site

The Scholastic Book V site is now live containing the SPOILERS that were found in the most recent Scholastic catalogue.

New Site: Harry Potter MeetUp And Read-In (MUARI)

Well folks, I've been hinting liberally over the past couple weeks of a big project I've been working on to bring you the maximum amount of fandom participation in the upcoming launch of Order of the Phoenix - I wanted to wait until we had exactly 30 days to go and so I have - it's here:Continued...

Barnes & Noble announces Book V Campaign

Barnes & Noble, today, announced that most stores will be open the night of Friday, June 20th for the release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. (Editor's Note:: Most likely those stores within malls will have to negociate the mall staying open. I'm inclined to believe that all standaloneContinued...

Surprise - Potter said to break all records

The BBC picked up an article from the Wall Street Journal today on some of the stats for book sales in the US.

Scholastic will ship 8.5 million copies of the book to shops in time for its release.

The marketing campaign will cost between $3-4m (£1.8-2.5m).

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Are You Ready? Scholastic Begins the Countdown

Well, fellow witches & wizards (and sneaky muggles) - it begins. Over the next month you'll be seeing hundreds of articles about one of the largest launches in the history of the book - TLC even has something due out this week to celebrate this massive undertaking.
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