Here are some facts about some of the Harry Potter actors/actresses: Fake Book 5 Hits China! A fake Harry Potter Book is now on sale in China, and it´s selling like hotcakes, despite being a fake. The Sixth Book Harry will be 16 years old. Latest Rumour from Matt Emery PlayMaker writes: "I have a friend at Scholastic and the 6th book summarization says that when Hermione is injured in the hospital wing, Ron and Harry go one-on-one with Voldemort." Zelda writes: "The title of the sixth book will be Harry Potter and the Green Flame Torch [Peter Pettigrew returns] when Harry finds a torch that gives off a green flame that will heal good and kill anything evil." The Seventh Book During an online chat at Scholastic, JK Rowling was asked: 'What makes some witches/wizards become ghosts after they die and some not?' She replied: "You don't really find that out until Book VII, but I can say that the happiest people do not become ghosts. As you might guess Moaning Myrtle!" Will Snape be redeemed in the Seventh Book? Perhaps a romance? JK Rowling has alluded to the possibility! One of the classmates will become a teacher at Hogwarts - but not Harry, Ron or Hermione! A BIG revelation is made about Lily Potter JK Rowling says, "Magic can't bring dead people back to life," so we will not see a "live" Lily or James Potter. JK Rowling has said the last word of the last book will be scar! Now she says that it may change during the writing of the Seventh Book! Hermione will be made a Head Girl Order of the Pheonix Book five takes the series to a darker, more serious level, as we see Harry's attitude and feelings change dramatically as J.K. Rowling takes us deeper and deeper into the fight between good and evil. Normally safe at the Dursley's, Harry suffers an almost fatal dementor attack before being taken to the secret headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix, a special group of wizards united in their efforts to defeat Voldemort and his followers. At the headquarters, Harry runs into Kreacher, a vile, horrible house elf and also Sirius' mother, who never misses an oppurtunity to scream the house down. Our hero returns to Hogwarts, where things begin to get ever more perilous as he encouters terrifying dreams, a teacher with an attitude like venom and corruption of the highest level and all the time, Harry still can't find out what exactly lies in the Department of Mysteries. Even more exciting things happen in Harry's fifth year, including a large revelation from Hagrid, and a new subject teacher that tries to land on his four feet (no pun intended!). Harry has to partake in deadly detentions, secret meetings with fellow students and he gets banned from one of the things he loves the most. But it's not all gloom and doom! Fred and George give us a spectacular array of laughs gasps, Ron achieves something he's been wanting to for ages, we find out once and for all what pulls the Hogwarts carriages and Harry gets his first moment of love! We see several new characters, some we hate, some we love and some we suspect. We go to new magical places, see new magical spells and see what it is like to sit Hogwarts OWL tests. Harry's life becomes ever more perilous as the book goes on, when he finds himself in the Ministry of Magic under direct threat from some of the most feared creatures in the magical world: Voldemort's death eaters. In a showing of bravery, skill and courage, our hero and his friends fight and fight and Harry comes face to face with an extremely dangerous death eater. And if you want to know more, read the book. It's filled with tragedy, happiness, suspense and creativity and should not be missed by any Harry Potter fan. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was awaited by millions of fans for three years. When it hit shelves, it created a worldwide phenomenom and shattered previous pre-order records. Hundreds of thousands of people queued outside book stores on June 20th, 2003 until the clock struck midnight, so that they would be the first to purchase the book they'd been waiting for. It's obvious from the reviews and sales figures that book five is also an exception. Buy Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix from Amazon.com Half-Blooded Prince Voldemort is definitely back-- and with a vengeance. In 'Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince,' Harry finds his world is again changing. Wizards and Muggles are dying despite the efforts of the Ministry of Magic and the Order of the Phoenix to stop them. The war is back on. Despite the danger, Harry and his friends, Ron and Hermione, reunite and return to the familiar life of Hogwarts for their sixth year. They find yet another 'Defense Against the Dark Arts' teacher, they begin their NEWT classes in preparation for life after Hogwarts, and Harry gets some much needed Potions help from the mysterious 'Half-Blood Prince.' Quiddich is as popular as ever, and Harry finds himself reforming his team and leading the Gryffindors. And then there is the ever popular 'Slug Club' with the new Potions teacher. Romance again comes to Hogwarts, and is a welcome balance to the grim happenings elsewhere. Harry deeply questions his own feelings while trying to understand the effect it is having on his friends. And yet while life at Hogwarts continues, the deaths also continue, and someone is trying to bring it into Hogwart's. Danger seems to lurk around every corner, and Harry is as determined as ever to unmask it. Dumbledore takes Harry under his guidance and together they try to unlock the secret of what is Voldemort and find a way to stop him before it is too late. Ultimately, Harry finds he must accept what he must do as 'The Chosen One' against Voldemort ... and choose between what is right, and what is easy. Favorite Quotes by Harry Potter I don't know who Maxime thinks she's kidding. If Hagrid's half-giant, she definitely is. Big bones... the only thing that's got bigger bones than her is a dinosaur. -------------------------------------------------- "Pity you can't attach an extra arm to yours [broom], Malfoy. Then it could catch the Snitch for you." -------------------------------------------------- "I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me." -------------------------------------------------- "Are you insane? Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in?" -------------------------------------------------- "Voldemort uses people his enemies are close to. He's already used you as bait once, and that was just because you're my best friend's sister. Think how much danger you'll be in if we keep this up. He'll know, he'll find out. He'll try and get to me through you." -------------------------------------------------- "He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with news...check if I'm happy..." -------------------------------------------------- "Brilliant! It's Potions last thing on Friday! Snape won't have the time to poison us all!" -------------------------------------------------- "Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!" -------------------------------------------------- "Well, I had one that I was playing Quidditch the other night," said Ron, screwing up his face in an effort to remember. "What do you think that means?" "Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something," said Harry, turning the pages of The Dream Oracle without interest. -------------------------------------------------- "And Harry said last night," retorted Ron, "if it means we're supposed to get matey with the Slytherins, fat chance." "Well, I think it's a pity we're not trying for a bit of inter-House unity," said Hermione crossly. They had reached the foot of the marble staircase. A line of fourth-year Ravenclaws was crossing the entrance hall; they caught sight of Harry and hurried to form a tighter group, as though frightened he might attack stragglers. "Yeah, we really ought to be trying to make friends with people like that," said Harry sarcastically. -------------------------------------------------- "Harry, don't go picking a row with Malfoy, don't forget, he's a prefect now, he could make life difficult for you..." "Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?" said Harry sarcastically. -------------------------------------------------- "How long have you been 'Big D' then?" said Harry. "Shut it," snarled Dudley, turning away again. "Cool name," said Harry, grinning, "but you'll always be Ickle Diddykins to me." "Shut your face." "You don't tell her [Aunt Petunia] to shut her face. What about 'popkin' and 'Dinky Diddydums,' can I use them then?" -------------------------------------------------- "Listen, if you [Fred and George] don't take it [the gold], I'm throwing it down the drain. I don't want it and I don't need it. But I could do with a few laughs. We could all do with a few laughs. I've got a feeling we're going to need them more than usual before long." -------------------------------------------------- "You can't give a Dementor the old one-two!" -------------------------------------------------- "Why were you lurking under our window?" "Yes -- yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?" "Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice. His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage. "Listening to the news! Again?" "Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry. -------------------------------------------------- "Er -- thanks very much, Ernie," said Harry, taken aback. Ernie might be pompous on occasions like these, but Harry was in a mood to deeply appreciate a vote of confidence from somebody who was not wearing radishes in their ears. -------------------------------------------------- "Proud?" said Harry. "Are you crazy? All those times I could've died, and I didn't manage it? They'll be furious...." -------------------------------------------------- "Cut it out," he [Harry] said firmly, rubbing the scar as the pain receded again. "First sign of madness, talking to your own head," said a sly voice from the empty picture on the wall. -------------------------------------------------- "You know your mother, Malfoy? The expression on her face - like she's got dung under her nose? Is she like that all the time or just because you were with her?" -------------------------------------------------- "He [Dumbledore] will only be gone from the school when none are loyal to him." -------------------------------------------------- "It's just hard," Harry said finally, in a low voice,"to realize he won't write me again." -------------------------------------------------- "I realised I can’t shut myself away or crack up. It could be me next, couldn’t it? But if it is, I’ll make sure I take as many Death Eaters with me as I can and Voldemort too, if I can manage it." -------------------------------------------------- "Snape killed Dumbledore." -------------------------------------------------- "Dumbledore's man through and through," said Harry. "That's right." -------------------------------------------------- "Wow... look at that... he's not here now! So why not have a go? They might be able to find you a double cell in Azkaban with your loser of a husband!" -------------------------------------------------- "Well, think back," said Harry. "Have you ever let it slip that you'd like to go out in public with the words 'My Sweetheart' round your neck'?" -------------------------------------------------- "Warrington's aim's so pathetic I'd be more worried if he was aiming for the person next to me." Favorite Quotes by Ronald Weasley [Prefects Who Gained Power:] "A Study of Hogwarts Prefects and Their Later Careers... That sounds fascinating..." -------------------------------------------------- "I want to fix that in my memory forever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret..." -------------------------------------------------- "Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world." -------------------------------------------------- "Viktor? Hasn't he asked you to call him Vicky yet?" -------------------------------------------------- "Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow, Turn this stupid, fat rat yellow." -------------------------------------------------- Speaking quietly so that no one else would hear, Harry told the other two about Snape's sudden, sinister desire to be a Quidditch referee. "Don't play," said Hermione at once. "Say you're ill," said Ron. "Pretend to break your leg," Hermione suggested. "Really break your leg," said Ron. -------------------------------------------------- "But why's she got to go to the library?" "Because that's what Hermione does. When in doubt, go to the library." -------------------------------------------------- "We're coming for you whether the Muggles like it or not, you can't miss the World Cup, only Mum and Dad reckon it's better if we pretend to ask their permission first. If they say yes, send Pig back with your answer pronto, and we'll come and get you at five o'clock on Sunday. If they say no, send Pig back pronto and we'll come and get you at five o'clock on Sunday anyway." [Letter to Harry] -------------------------------------------------- "Can I have a look at Uranus, too, Lavender?" -------------------------------------------------- "Percy wouldn't recognize a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing Dobby's tea-cozy." -------------------------------------------------- [Hermione] "Aren't you two ever going to read Hogwarts: A History?" "What's the point? You know it all by heart, we can just ask you." -------------------------------------------------- "Accio Brain!" -------------------------------------------------- Hermione frowned at Ron. "He's not a nutter, Ron---" "His life's ambition is to have his head cut off and stuck up on a plaque just like his mother," said Ron irritably. "Is that normal, Hermione?" -------------------------------------------------- "Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather better by telling him how he told the examiner in detail about the ugly man with a wart on his nose in the crystal ball, only to look up an realize he had been describing the examiner's reflection. -------------------------------------------------- "Ron, we're supposed to show the first-years where to go!" "Oh, yeah," said Ron, who had obviously forgotten. "Hey-hey you lot! Midgets!" "Ron!" "Well, they are, they're twitchy..." -------------------------------------------------- "The hats have gone," Hermione said happily. "Seems the house-elves do want freedom after all." "I wouldn't bet on it," Ron told her cuttingly. "They might not count as clothes. They didn't look anything like hats to me, more like woolly bladders." -------------------------------------------------- "What's up with you, Hermione?" She was gazing out the window, but not as though she really saw it. Her eyes were unfocused and there was a frown on her face. "Just thinking..." she said, still frowning. "About Siri -- Snuffles?" said Harry. "No...not exactly..." said Hermione slowly. "More...wondering...I suppose we're doing the right thing...I think....aren't we?" Harry and Ron looked at each other. "Well, that clears that up," said Ron. "It would have been really annoying if you hadn't explained yourself properly." -------------------------------------------------- "I've got two Neptunes here," said Harry after a while, frowning down on his parchment, "that can't be right, can it?" "Aaaah," said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney's mysical whisper, "when two Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry..." -------------------------------------------------- "...from now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'die, Ron, die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong." -------------------------------------------------- "What's that?" said Ron, pointing at a large dish of some sort of shellfish stew that stood beside a large steak-and-kidnet pudding. "Bouillabaisse," said Hermione. "Bless you," said Ron. -------------------------------------------------- "And no wonder we couldn't find Flamel in that Study of Recent Developments in Wizardry," said Ron. "He's not exactly recent if he's six-hundred and sixty-five, is he?" -------------------------------------------------- "I'll make Goyle do lines, he hates writing," said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle's low grunt, mimed writing in midair. "I...must...not...look...like...a...baboon's...backside." -------------------------------------------------- "It's obvious," said Ron. "You can pretend to be waiting Professor Flitwick, you know." He put on a high voice, "'Oh, Professor Flitwick, I'm so worried, I think I got question fourteen b wrong...'" -------------------------------------------------- "Stop moving!" Hermonie ordered them. "I know what this is-it's the Devil's Snare!" "Oh, I'm so glad we know what it's called, that's a great help," snarled Ron, leaning back, trying to stop the plant from curling around his neck. -------------------------------------------------- "Did I tell you I've invented a broomstick that'll reach Jupiter?" -------------------------------------------------- "There you go, Harry," Ron shouted over the noise. "You weren't being thick after all- you were showing moral fiber!" -------------------------------------------------- "You need your inner eye tested if you ask me." -------------------------------------------------- "Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough." -------------------------------------------------- "Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes," said Ron, bent double with his head in a peony bush, "like fat little Santa Clauses with fishing rods." --------------------------------------------------- "I tell you, that dragon is the most horrible creature I've ever met, but the way Hagrid goes about it you'd think it was a fluffy little bunny rabbit. When it bit me, he told me off for frightening it. And when I left he was singing it a lullaby." --------------------------------------------------- "Tomorrow," said Ron in a muffled voice, "I'd rather you set the alarm clock." --------------------------------------------------- "Could've been anything," said Ron. "Maybe he [Tom Riddle] got thirty O.W.L.s or saved a teacher from the giant squid. Maybe he murdered Myrtle; that would've done everyone a favor..." Favorite Quotes by Hermione Granger "Oh Harry, don't you see? If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!" -------------------------------------------------- Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity. "No," she said, her voice quivering with anger, "but I will write to your mother." "You wouldn't," said George, horrified, taking a step back from her. "Oh, yes, I would," said Hermione grimly. "I can't stop you from eating the stupid things yourself, but you're not giving them to first years." Fred and George looked thunderstruck. It was clear that as far as they were concerned, Hermione's threat was way below the belt. -------------------------------------------------- They were so busy that Hermione had stopped knitting elf hats and was fretting that she was down to her last three. "All those poor elves I haven't set free yet, having to stay over during Christmas