The Guardian has an article about Harry Potter: Icons of the decade.
Harry Potter became the first new global superhero of the 21st century, with JK Rowling following JM Barrie, Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Fleming as a writer who has created a character with universal appeal.
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First Image From Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.
The BBC has a short video and accompanying article about how the Harry Potter actors are looking to the future. It seems a little weird that people see this as some sort of closure, like they’ll all retire or something when most of them are still in their teens and early twenties.
io9 quotes from an interview with author Lev Grossman who says:
I loved Harry Potter, but that epilogue was such an astounding failure of imagination on Rowling’s part! And in a way, it throws the entirety of all seven novels into doubt retroactively.
I felt the problem she failed to solve was the question of, “here’s a [...]
I stumbled across some alternative book cover designs for the HP series by M. S. Corley. I love this style of design, reminds me of posters for Hitchcock films and intros by Saul Bass.
Apparently the artist has been asked not to sell prints, but the design have been passed to the relevant people at [...]
