Blog site io9 has a post about the real world Intercollegiate Quidditch Association (IQA) who participate in a real life Quidditch World Cup. Obviously they can’t fly, so they’ve come up with some twists on the version in the books. Not sure it’ll catch on, but fun to see.
Archive for 2008
It was announced yesterday that the sixth movie in the Harry Potter franchise is due to delayed and will now be released in July 2009 rather than the original date of November 2008. The BBC has some interesting speculations as to why the delay in this article, I tend to agree with the idea that [...]
I have to say that when Rowling produced the hand-written copies I thought the tales would never be published, but she seems to have relented for charity and now several versions will be released by the looks of it. Amazon, who bought the only hand-written copy to be sold for £1.95m, ‘will produce a maximum [...]
According to the BBC the sixth Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, has been chosen for this year’s Royal Film Performance. Also included in the article is the first trailer for the film, due for release on the 21st November 2008.
The second book in the Septimus Heap series carries on the wacky notions, action, adventure and inventiveness of the first. Septimus is slowly growing into his role, but limitations on his magyk abilities mean the problems he faces cannot simply be solved with a charm and he has to rely on others and his ingenuity [...]
