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Pop 20: Lost in translation? Manage your expectations with book to movie adaptations

by Aaron Sagers

[31.Jul.09] :. There’s a climactic scene in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” when Harry and Hermione, after discovering Ron has been using magical steroids in Quidditch, are cornered by...

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‘Harry Potter’ is meant for marathons

by Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[17.Jul.09] :. I’ve had no luck thinking of a precedent for the wildly successful “Harry Potter” films. Has there been another series of eight motion pictures following the same characters over a...

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When it comes to characters, Harry lures Britain’s best

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[17.Jul.09] :. The answer is “Dame Judi Dench.” The question? Name one British character actor of note who hasn’t made an appearance/collected a check from the “Harry Potter” movies....

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Pop 20: Potter fans slow to adapt to movies

by Aaron Sagers

[17.Jul.09] :. There’s a climactic scene in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” when Harry and Hermione, after discovering Ron has been using magical steroids in Quidditch, are cornered by...

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Emma Watson: Graduating from Hogwarts, then from ‘Harry Potter’

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[16.Jul.09] :. Life without Harry Potter? “It’s basically impossible for me to imagine,” says Emma Watson, “because it’s shaped so much of my life. I went from being somebody who...

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

by Todd R. Ramlow

[14.Jul.09] :. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, complicated teenaged sexual desires are the counterpart to the sacrificial love oft touted by Dumbledore.

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Have the Harry Potter films shed the books’ shadow?

by Mark Caro [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[13.Jul.09] :. The previous Harry Potter movie was a big deal, yes, but it came out less than two weeks before the seventh and final chapter of J.K. Rowling’s phenomenally popular series hit bookshelves...

We Are Wizards

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Nov.08] :. Josh Koury's documentary about hardcore Harry Potter fans, meandering and amiable, reveals that resistance to consumer culture is pretty much futile.

The Boy Who Lives On: Harry Potter’s Place in Popular Culture

by Patrick Schabe

[31.Jul.07] :. Harry Potter flew so high in popular cultural consciousness not by some force of magic, but by the simple, sometimes thrilling machinations of pop culture.

‘Deathly Hallows’ makes for a great read and strong ending

by Jeffrey Weiss [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]

[27.Jul.07] :. (SPOILER ALERT: This review doesn’t give away any major plot points but does refer to some of the earlier books. Exceptionally devout Harry Potter readers may wish to look the other...

Rowling triumphs with final ‘Harry Potter’ installment

by Chauncey Mabe [South Florida Sun-Sentinel (MCT)]

[25.Jul.07] :. After all this time it turns out that we have underestimated J.K. Rowling. Not even her most ardent partisans could have anticipated the triumph that is “Harry Potter and the Deathly...

Harry Potter and the alchemy theory

by Jonathan V. Last [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[24.Jul.07] :. I haven’t finished “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” yet, but it’s not for lack of trying. I lined up to get my midnight copy at 8 a.m. Friday. But the beautiful thing...

On spoilers

by Marco Ursi

[23.Jul.07] :. I reviewed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for the Macleans.ca website today. After some discussion with my editor, we decided to run a spoiler-filled piece. There was a lot of debate...

‘Potter’ still magic in finale

by Julia Keller [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[22.Jul.07] :. LONDON—Rain was flung about in what seemed to be great sloshing bucketfuls, liquefying sidewalks, turning intersections into soppy messes, making basements into lagoons. Then suddenly, it...

Preserving the secrecy of the Harry Potter plot

by Jane Henderson [St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)]

[22.Jul.07] :. ST. LOUIS - There should be a secret handshake. Something to let other readers know whether it’s safe to discuss the finer plot points of “Harry Potter and the Deathly...

Classic Harry

by Carlin Romano [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[20.Jul.07] :. With six novels down, at least one to come, J.K. Rowling has elevated herself to among the masters of children's literature.

Harry Potter and the judgment of posterity

by Chauncey Mabe [South Florida Sun-Sentinel (MCT)]

[20.Jul.07] :. Now that the conclusion of the seven-book Harry Potter saga is finally upon us, it is not too early to begin placing J.K. Rowling's creation into literary perspective. The Lords of High Culture, not surprisingly, have examined Harry and found him wanting.

Harry Potter and the last hurrah

by Alan Cochrum [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[20.Jul.07] :. When it comes to perceptiveness, I cannot claim the talent of Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. But here are a few thoughts on what readers might -- or might not, or should, or should not -- encounter in Harry's last hurrah.

Can Harry Potter conjure a generation of writers? Or, at least, readers?

by John Mark Eberhart [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[20.Jul.07] :. Six years from now, experts believe, some of those youngsters will be writing fantasy and science fiction novels themselves. And if America is really lucky, the Potter generation might be more literate than the one that preceded it.

The end is near

by Christopher Kelly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[20.Jul.07] :. Below, you'll find a spellbinding guide to all of the major characters and conflicts so far -- and what big questions should be answered in Book Seven.

What awaits the literary world beyond the Deathly Hallows?

by Natasha Derrick [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[20.Jul.07] :. No matter what is following on Harry Potter's heels, Rowling has left a legacy of children's writing to which all fantasy newcomers will be compared.

Harry Potter death odds

by Chauncey Mabe [South Florida Sun-Sentinel (MCT)]

[20.Jul.07] :. Based on remarks made by Rowling, fans are expecting two important characters to die, but it could be more. Here is a rundown on Harry and other principals, along with the odds on their demise.

Hyped Potter release a curse for independent sellers

by Cari Tuna

[19.Jul.07] :. MINNEAPOLIS—Saturday’s debut of the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series may be a magical time financially for its author and publisher, but it’s less so for...

Potter fans’ new foe? The Web

by Tara Cuslidge and Jeffrey Weiss [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]

[19.Jul.07] :. DALLAS - The countdown looks to be over a little early for Harry Potter fans. Digital versions of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows have started showing up on the Web days before the books’...

New York readies for Potter release night frenzy

by Stevenson Swanson [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[18.Jul.07] :. NEW YORK - Harry Potter may be an English wizard, but here in the center of American publishing, he’s about to get an over-the-top Yankee send-off. Come Friday night, the front of the Time...

Has the Potter secret been blown on the Web?

by Chris O'Brien

[18.Jul.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif.—Harry Potter dies! No, wait, he lives! If you’re lying awake at night counting the minutes until Saturday when the final Harry Potter book is released, then boot up the...

An old-fashioned icon in a fragmented culture

by J. Peder Zane [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[18.Jul.07] :. Harry Potter is a throwback freak, the residue of a faded age, the likes of whom we may never see again. I don’t mean the archaic fantasy world of Muggles and wizards that author J.K. Rowling...

Life after Harry Potter?

by Chauncey Mabe

[15.Jul.07] :. Fans, publishers wondering what to do next…

‘Harry Potter’ sets box-office mark for Wednesday debut

by Russ Britt [MarketWatch (MCT)]

[13.Jul.07] :. LOS ANGELES - “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” set a new record for a Wednesday debut at the box office, as the fifth installment in Warner Bros. Studios’ hugely...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

by Bill Gibron

[13.Jul.07] :. While one might question the viability of the franchise once Rowling releases the last Potter tome... Order of the Phoenix finds the series settling in quite nicely

Rupert Grint is different from his ‘Harry Potter’ character

by Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[12.Jul.07] :. Sometimes an actor is so closely identified with a character that in the public’s eye he practically becomes the same person. In the case of Rupert Grint and Ron Weasley, the character Grint...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Jul.07] :. Order of the Phoenix, for all its shortcomings, does make clear the sense of loss and struggle that comes with maturity.

Daniel Radcliffe talks ‘Harry Potter’

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[11.Jul.07] :. Daniel Radcliffe has spent the years most young men reserve for rebellion being not only a superior role model for the millions of children who, like him, have grown up with Harry Potter, but also...

What’s the secret of Harry’s appeal?

by Sarah T. Williams [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[11.Jul.07] :. Michael Dahl, a children’s book author and editorial director of Stone Arch Books in Mankato, Minn., oft has been heard to say that “the No. 1 rule for writing good children’s books...

Harry Potter and the deathly discounts

by Caroline Davis [The Seattle Times (MCT)]

[28.Jun.07] :. A lightning-shaped scar, furrowed brow and piercing green eyes are what will greet you in the doorway of the Secret Garden Bookshop in Ballard, Wash., these days. But don’t be alarmed. The...

In final Harry Potter launch, a tinge of sales magic

by Sarah Turner [MarketWatch (MCT)]

[17.May.07] :. LONDON - In the halls of a London private elementary school, in some ways not so different from the Hogwarts of J.K. Rowling’s wizard world, talk turns often to the final installment of the...