Yesterday, JKR made a revised statement on her Official Site about the future of the HP Encyclopedia ("The Scottish Book").

Via Leaky Cauldron
In an update on J. K. Rowling's website, the author makes quite clear that plans to publish a physical copy of a Harry Potter Encyclopaedia are not on the horizon. The entry, updated May 2012, reads:

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I am loving the artwork from Tumblr and DeviantArt about the "Abandoned Boys" ~ Harry, Severus, and Tom ~ especially since people are also connecting it to the Tale of the Three Brothers from Beedle the Bard.

(Where possible, I have given the name of the artist. Unfortunately on Tumblr you can't always find the original source for these pictures, ( Read more... )

(I want to thank Serpentine and BNMC2005 for their editing tips with this essay, as well as Boushh for the inspiration!)

And now it is also posted on Harry Potter Network HERE

Did you know the name "James" (as in Harry's father) means "supplanter" or  "usurper"? 
The name is derived from the Hebrew Old Testament name "Yakov" or "Jacob"
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Several more Video featurettes from WB ~ SPOILER ALERT!!!

( Watch Them Here Under The Cut . . . )

I promised quotes from James Thurber this week, and that's what we've got.

And thanks to my dear husband who checked all the Thurber fairy tales out of the library for me.


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Some thought-provoking quotes from Beedle the Bard, not from the stories, but the Intro, commentary, and footnotes. (JKR writes that certain footnotes were written by her to explain things to Muggles, but some of them seem to come from Dumbledore, while others may have been written by Hermione ) Since these are spoilers, I'll put them under an LJ- ( Read more... )

  “Yes! I did [grow up on a Christmas Tree farm], so this is a good season for me. I was too young to help with the hauling of the trees up the hills and putting them onto cars. So, it was my job to pull off the preying mantis pods off of the Christmas trees. The problem with that is if you leave them on there, people bring them into their house. I ( Read more... )

               The Solitary Beedle of Yore
              
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J. K. Rowling has made The Mirror UK's Top Ten Wardrobe Malfunctions. In fact, JKR has had two, um, problems with her decolletage in the past year. But who's counting? Maybe she should take Sharon Osborne's advice from VH1's trashy reality show Rock of Love Charm School ~ "You can be sexy all covered up."


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Well it never rains but it pours - as I can attest, since it has been raining buckets here in Tennessee every single day for the past two weeks.

But what a week for HP!!! We got to see The Trailer - and for a movie touted as a "romantic comedy" it was pretty grim, and I don't use that word lightly. We got to see little sociopathic Tom Riddle, and ( Read more... )