Raise your hand if you're surprised.

Anyone?

Best place to keep up with any news if you're interested: Fandom Wank of course!

So it looks like JKR has officially ended the Wizard of the Month feature on her website. Starting today, it is apparently just an archive of past ones with no new ones coming. I'm kind of sad about that. I really liked getting the new wizards every month.

[Insert obligatory pimping of my hp_wotm community for anyone else who wants to still get a fix ( Read more... )

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. Dumbledore's gay, Neville married Hannah, etc. JKR said it and the internet (yes, all of it) is going bonkers. Whatever. Here is the good stuff from JKR's chat thing tonight in New York

Information on the original Order members was also revealed during tonight's event. Jo related the fact that Remus Lupin, prior to the third ( Read more... )

From The Leaky Cauldron:

Noting that he has been pleased with all the Harry Potter films to date, David Thewlis recounts his meeting with Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling ( Read more... )

Things I needed/wanted to do on my day off (Monday) with things I did after classes on Saturday and Sunday struck through:

Grocery shopping
5 loads of laundry
Prep for Tuesday classes: Level 3 and Level 7 ( Read more... )

There's a new Wombat test at jkrowling.com! I'm going to go take it now and will edit this post with my thoughts once done. Just wanted to give everyone a quick heads up ( Read more... )

Here's my 5 galleons (the word document was about 5 pages so that should certainly be worth more than 2 cents or knuts or whatevers) worth of theories on Deathly Hallows. Thanks again to the Queen of Memes, gilpin25, for compiling all this.

1. Are you going to look at every possible spoiler you can before the book comes out? Did you with HBP and how ( Read more... )

J.K. Rowling and her merry band of associated companies have a tendency to copyright Harry Potter and the ... titles that never get used. Someone over at hogwarts_grads pointed out that, at one point, Harry Potter and the Hallows of Hogwarts and Harry Potter and the Hogwarts' Hallows were patented, though they have now been withdrawn ( Read more... )

It's official. We have a title.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
I don't know how I feel about it. It has to sink in for a bit. Anyone else have an opinion yet? I want to know the other two titles she's been debating.

The owl post has arrived and brings big news today! If you took the second WOMBAT and have your student identification number, you can go to JKR's website, click the WOMBAT card, and claim your results.

I got an Exceeds Expectations. That is the same thing I got the first time. Not an Outstanding, but overall I'm quite pleased with my results.