Potted Potter is back!
By Pam Pastor
It’s Wednesday afternoon and Jesse Briton and Gary Trainor, the stars of Potted Potter, are squeezed into a cramped corner of Starbucks at the RCBC Plaza.
It’s Wednesday afternoon and Jesse Briton and Gary Trainor, the stars of Potted Potter, are squeezed into a cramped corner of Starbucks at the RCBC Plaza.
Stefan Bachmann is only 19, but his darkly mysterious debut novel set in a parallel world of faeries, goblins and child snatchers has already earned him comparisons to J.K. Rowling, Dickens and Dostoyevsky.
Just the mention of her name, J.K. Rowling, had the audience screaming and on its feet.
For more than 10 years, all she had known was magic. Since 1997, J.K. Rowling has made money appear out of thin air—making herself wealthier than the Queen of England at one point—and famous worldwide by conjuring from her “riddikulus” imagination the boy wizard Harry Potter through seven books that also turned young-adult fiction into a publishing creature of mythical stature.
British bookshops are opening their doors early as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling launches her long anticipated first book for adults, “The Casual Vacancy.”
Forgive me, J.K., for I have sinned. I’ve been a believer in the magic of Harry Potter since I first read “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” in fifth grade.
To take a leaf out of Hermione Granger’s book, it is best to familiarize yourself with the history, language, and social practices of a world different from yours before even entering it.
The story behind the story itself has a bit of magic to it. It’s been retold many times in many different outlets, but there is just something about how Harry Potter came to be that bears remembering and inspires awe. In 1990, Joanne Rowling was on a train from the northern territory of Manchester and [...]
It was the perfect end to a childhood obsession. It was Christmas in 1999 when Tata Enerio’s parents gave her the first three books of J.K. Rowling’s bestselling series “Harry Potter.” Tata was in fifth grade when she first read about the boy with a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead. Like all other Potter fans [...]
There’s no doubt about it—Harry Potter is merchandising gold. Practically everything you see in the movie and read in the books is available for sale somewhere in the world: Wands, brooms, robes, scarves, Extendable Ears, time turners, Quidditch equipment, all sorts of sweets, even Mad-Eye Moody’s eye patch. J.K. Rowling’s magic-filled world has inspired the [...]
Have our Hogwarts letters finally arrived? Well, this surely comes close. With the end of the “Harry Potter” film franchise nearing, legions of fans of the bestselling series have been lamenting the inevitable end of this worldwide phenomenon.
