JENNIFERANISTON | Shared With: Everyone - May 16 2007 | HPFZ, HARRY POTTER, JK ROWLING, RON, HERMIONE, books, downloads, videos, GALLERY, movies, media, AUSTRALIA, FANSITE, FORUMS, film
Quoted:a harry potter fansite
These fan sites contain news updates into the world of the books, films, and film cast members, forums, image galleries, or video galleries.] Some sites host thousands of pieces of fan art, submitted by a wide variety of artists, often in the form of a contest. It is also common to find sites (or simply YouTube member pages) devoted to fan videos, which are typically in the form of anime music videos or songvids.There are millions of fan web sites about Harry Potter on the Internet, the oldest ones dating to about 1997 or 1998.[] J. K. Rowling has an open relationship with her fan base, and since 2004 periodically hands out a "fan site award" on her official web site..In 2007, Harry Potter Fan Zone received the award and currently holds it.
J.K. RowlingJ.K. (Joanne Kathleen) Rowling was born in 1965 and grew up in Chepstow, Gwent. She left Chepstow to study French at Exeter University, where her course included a year in Paris. As a postgraduate, she moved to London to work at Amnesty International doing research into human rights abuses in Francophone Africa. She started writing Harry Potter after the idea occurred to her on an interminable Manchester to London train journey. Jo then moved to north Portugal to teach English as a foreign language, married, got pregnant, and kept writing. By the time her daughter was born, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was one-quarter finished.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published by Bloomsbury Children's Books in June 1997 to great critical acclaim, and has since won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Medal (9—11 years), the FCBG Children's Book Award (overall winner), the Birmingham Cable Children's Book Award, the Young Telegraph Paperback of the Year, the British Book Awards' Children's Book of the Year and the Sheffield Children's Book Award, and was short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal (received 'Commended'). The book has also won two extremely prestigious foreign awards — Sorcieres Prix 1998 in France and the Premio Cento per la Letteratura Infantile 1998 in Italy.
- JENNIFERANISTON | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 28 2007 | about, email, The Leaky Cauldron, images, videos, podcast, harry potter, half-blood prince, deathly hallows, pottercast, book 7, books, CHAT, leaky cauldron, j.k. rowling, order of the phoenix, prisoner of azkaban, philosopher's stone, chamber of secrets, goblet of fire, hermione, ron, watson, radcliffe, grint, voldemort, magic, MUGGLENET, MUGGLECAST, phoenix, potter, half-blood, hogwarts, hufflepuff, slytherin, ravenclaw, gryffindor, NEWSLETTERS, jkr, FEEDS
Quoted: The number one source for everything Harry Potter! Latest Harry Potter news, images, video, rumors, and discussion concerning Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Movie 5).\
A few facts about MuggleNet
* Founded: Fall of 1999
* Visitors in 2005: Over 27 million
* Viewed by fans in: 183 countries
* Average time spent on the site: 13 minutes, 37 seconds 
JENNIFERANISTON | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 20 2007 | The Leaky Cauldron, images, videos, podcast, harry potter, half-blood prince, deathly hallows, pottercast, book 7, books, CHAT, leaky cauldron, j.k. rowling, order of the phoenix, prisoner of azkaban, philosopher's stone, chamber of secrets, goblet of fire, hermione, ron, watson, radcliffe, grint, voldemort, magic, TLC, FEEDS, NEWSLETTERS, news, movies, CONTESTS, RAVENCLAW, horcrux, dumbledore, SNAPE, HAGRID, slytherin, black, HUFFLEPUFF, gryffindor, love, hogwarts, TOM RIDDLE
Quoted: The best and most comprehensive news and info, the largest image gallery online, frequent exclusives, lively discussion, podcast, chat, essays, contests, and more. J.K. Rowling has publicly called The Leaky Cauldron her favorite site.
The Leaky Cauldron, or Leaky as it is often called, is a popular Harry Potter fansite. It features news, a video gallery, image galleries, interviews, reviews, fan graphics, widgets, essays, a chat room, forums, a podcast called "PotterCast," and more. The current webmaster is Melissa Anelli, a journalist for the Staten Island Advance. John Noe is the creative director of the site, and Sue Upton is the senior news editor.
It has good relations with J. K. Rowling, the writer of the Harry Potter books and producers of the Harry Potter films, interviews the actors, and was the first fan site to gain such access, visits the sets and posts information straight from those involved in the production of the franchise. Rowling has praised The Leaky Cauldron on her Web site by awarding it her "Fan Site Award.
- JENNIFERANISTON | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 11 2007 | Harry Potter, HERMIONE, RON, VOLDEMORT, hogwarts school of witchcraft, half blood prince, the chamber of secrets, the goblet of fire, the philosophers stone, FANTASY, LITERATURE, books, JK Rowling, DARK ARTS, film, W3C AA priority standard, THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, Order of the Phoenix, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, language, READING, FICTION
Quoted: Jump aboard the Hogwart Express to come on a fantastic adventure at the official JK Rowling Website. See what's on my desk. Read all about me, JK Rowling, and what inspired and still inspires the Harry Potter series. Read the very latest news. See what the latest rumours are and get all the gossip. There are hidden pieces of Potterania hidden all around the site. Finding these gains you rewards to store in your scrapbook. Get answers to your Frequently Asked Questions. The non-Flash area aims to deliver all the information to W3C AA priority standards.
Harry Potter is the a series of fantasy novels by English author J. K. Rowling about a boy with the same name. Since the release of the first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (retitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States) in 1997, the books have gained immense popularity and commercial success worldwide, spawning films, video games and assorted merchandise. The six books published to date have collectively sold more than 325 million copies, and have been translated into more than 63 languages.[1][2] The seventh and last book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is scheduled to be released on 21 July 2007.[3]The story is mostly set in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and focuses on Harry Potter's fight against the evil wizard Lord Voldemort, who used the Dark Arts to kill Potter's parents
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