Actor Simon McBurney has been cast as Kreacher the House-elf's voice-over in Deathly Hallows, as listed by his casting agency. Simon has been in a variety of films before Deathly Hallows, including The Golden Compass, The Duchess (starring Ralph Fiennes - Voldemort), The Last King of Scotland and much more. Timothy Bateson voiced Kreacher in Order of the Phoenix; Simon will be taking that role now. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released on November 19, 2010 and July 15, 2011.

Source: MuggleNet

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Information on how to obtain tickets to the Japanese premiere of Half-Blood Prince on July 6th, and early screenings thereafter, is now available. The premiere will take place in Tokyo, with subsequent screenings at Osaka on July 7th, Sapporo on July 8th, Nagoya on July 8th and Hukuoka on July 8th.

Venues, times and ticket prices can be found at the source.

Source: Potter Mania

Today the estate of late author Adrian Jacobs filed a suit against Bloomsbury Publishing citing copyright infringement involving Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling. In a press release, the estate claims that " Rowling copied substantial parts of the work of the late Adrian Jacobs, The Adventures of Willy the Wizard-No 1 Livid Land, and that Bloomsbury in selling the books have infringed the Estate's copyright." The Bookseller also notes the estate is "seeking an injunction to prevent further sales of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and either damages or a share in the profits made by Bloomsbury. As noted by the Bookseller and the release, the claim says that "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 ' in Harry Potter. "

Bloomsbury, UK publishers of the Harry Potter series, has now responded to this matter at length. In a response sent to Reuters and TLC, reps note "this claim is without merit and will be defended vigorously." They continue:


The allegations of plagiarism made today, Monday 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  Harry Potter series - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and after the publication of the first five books in the Harry Potter series.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was written by  Rowling before approaching Christopher Little in 1995 and the book was published in an essentially unaltered form by Bloomsbury in 1997.
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 claim was first made in 2004 by solicitors in London acting on behalf of Adrian Jacobs' son who was the representative of his father's estate and who lives in the United States. The claim was unable to identify any text in the Harry Potter books which was said to copy Willy the Wizard.

Following correspondence between lawyers over a period of three months in 2004 rejecting this claim, no more was heard about the claim until a new set of solicitors put forward the claim on a significantly different basis four years later in 2008 (eleven years after the publication of the first Harry Potter book) but still without identifying any text said to copy Willy the Wizard. These lawyers have stated that they are acting on behalf of a firm of solicitors in , Australia and on behalf of a West Midlands property developer who was appointed in 2008 as Trustee of the Estate in order to bring this claim. The claim is now made in respect of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which was published in 2000.

Spanish network CANAL + will air a 42-minute long special on Half-Blood Prince Saturday, July 4, 2009. Host Cristina Teva will talk to stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Jessie Cave, Bonnie Wright, Tom Felton, Michael Gambon and director David Yates on the set of the sixth film.

The segment also promises looks at various sets for Half-Blood Prince, including Dumbledore's office, Slughorn's potions classroom, Diagon Alley, the Three Broomsticks, the Astronomy Tower, Borgin & Burkes and much more.




If anyone is able to record the special come July 4, please feel free to send it over!

Source: Potterish

In a newly-revealed interview segment J.K. Rowling talks about the potential for hackers to have obtained her Harry Potter manuscripts and the spoilers they could have unveiled.

Quote: JKR: "Have they got it from my hard drive?" I'm so ignorant about PC's - I would think, "Can they? Can they crawl through the wires and get it? Physically? In little balaclavas?"

Every time my computer did anything that computers do, freeze or something, it would always cross my mind and I'd think, 'what have I let happen?'

At the very final stages of seven, I did take everything off my PC completely and it was just on the laptop, and I even resented having to think like that, but this was the last book, and I so wanted people to get it in paper form to read, and not from a scam or a spoiler. So I did get a little bit more security conscious right at the end.

MA: So it was never connected to the internet?

JKR: Yeah. Actually, no, that's not true. I did connect it to the Internet - what am I saying? [laughs] I did. But I did treat it all with a little bit more reverence. But actually, yes, I did connect it to the Internet so what's the difference? Oops. It's so nice to be able to say these things now. Source: Harry Latino

Calling all Londoners!

Tom Felton's horror film The Disappeared will premiere in London on June 19, but SnitchSeeker members have a chance to win tickets to two screenings, a preview held this Wednesday, June 17, and a second screening next Monday, June 22. Both screenings will include a Q&A session with the director, and cast members (including Tom!) will be present at the Monday screening.

To win a pair of tickets to the Wednesday screening or a single ticket to the Monday screening, simply answer the question below and e-mail your response here on this email martin-hary@hotmal.com
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Quote: Name all the characters that Tom Felton has portrayed in film and television, including the two roles he has recently been cast for but that have yet to be filmed. The deadline for entry is midnight tomorrow, June 16.

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