The Exhibition!

Hey everybody! So a few days ago I went to the Harry Potter Exhibition in Chicago! Sadly, they did not allow pictures inside the exhibit, but I did not completely fail you guys! I have pictures of the Weasleys flying Ford Anglia. so feat your eyes on the REAL magic flying car.

Harry Potter's at Court... Again

Adrian Jacob's estate filed a lawsuit against UK Potter publisher Bloomsbury today, claiming that JK Rowling stole the plot of Jacob's 1987 novel The Adventures of Willy the Wizard-No 1 Livid Land. From the Estate's press release:

Both books describe the adventures of a main character, "Willy" in Jacobs' book and "Harry Potter" in Rowling's, who are wizards, who compete in a wizard contest which they ultimately win. Both Willy and Harry are required to work out the exact nature of the main task of the contest which they both achieve in a bathroom assisted by clues from helpers, in order to discover how to rescue human hostages imprisoned by a community of half-human, half-animal fantasy creatures, "the merpeople" in Harry Potter.

Bloomsbury quickly responded with a press release of their own. Our friends at HPANA received a copy of the statement and passed it along to us. An excerpt:

...this claim is without merit and will be defended vigorously. The allegations of plagiarism made today, 15 June 2009, by the Estate of Adrian Jacobs are unfounded, unsubstantiated and untrue.

JK Rowling had never heard of Adrian Jacobs nor seen, read or heard of his book Willy the Wizard until this claim was first made in 2004 -- almost seven years after the publication of the first book in the highly publicised Harry Potter series and after the publication of the first five books.

Willy the Wizard is a very insubstantial booklet running to 36 pages which had very limited distribution. The central character of Willy the Wizard is not a young wizard and the book does not revolve around a wizard school.

This isn't the first time that JK Rowling has went to court, hopefully she'll pull through. All the best to her!

For more on the Bloomsbury press release click here!

2 New TV Spots for HBP

Want to see a few more clips of Half-Blood Prince?

Say no more! Just click here and here for two clips that have been running on Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network.

I'm Cartoon Network fan myself...

Another HBP Clip with Merlin

According to NBC, along with the premier of it's new TV Series, Merlin, there's to be a HBP movie clip...

There's really a lot of promotion for the movie lately, and just wait!  Only 30 days left!!!

Click here to learn more about Merlin, and don't worry. As soon as that clip is online, it'll be on our site!

NEville and the Children

According to the Yorkshire Evening Post, Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom) was there to help the Horsforth Children's Center with it's Grand Opening.

I'd love to be one of those kids... they get to meet Neville!

Click here for more.

Subway Station is Potter-ized

The Times Square Subway Station in New York City had been tricked out- Half-Blood Prince Style. 

The subway's pillars are garnished with several promo posters from Movie 6 and are simply amazing!

If you want to see all of these amazing pictures of this fabulous subway station (which is now my favorite subway station ever) click here.

TWIP (6/14- 6/20)

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