J.K Rowling answered fan questions in a web chat at Bloomsbury.com today. At the link, Leaky’s transcript.
Fan art: Hogwarts cosplay
Be sure to click through to see the whole thing!
Draco dressed as Legolas (with Ginny as Mara Jade) by Nicole Lokstadt. I’ve had this in my favs for months, how did I forget to include it in Harry Potter week? D’oh.
Checking in with Harry Potter
The new Entertainment Weekly is chock full of Potter, including Daniel Radcliffe’s thoughts on the new book.
The HP week in review
- Naomi Watts, Joseph Fiennes, and Stuart Townsend are not going to be in Half-Blood Prince, their agents say. But I read it it on the internet!
- John Ostrander on HP alternatives.
- Amy H. Sturgis recs political analysis of Potter.
- Slate’s Book Club dissects Deathly Hallows
- Would you send your kids to Hogwarts?
- Fans translate Hallows into Spanish.
- “Yes, Virginia, there is a Potterdammerung.” But nothing beats the Russian Snape fans who burn a copy of DH. Dude. We’re crazy, but not that crazy.
- A mind-cleansing LOLcat.
Crafts for the Web Generation
Y’know, I’m starting to suspect that Dunc has a secret yearning to be crafty, in the Hobby Lobby kinda sense, at least. She keeps coming across this nifty stuff that really has to be shared. Since there are many crafty types on Club Jade (who are actually out of the closet, that is), we present them to you here:
Still reluctant to turn back into a Muggle after the hype of the past few weeks?
– An entire blog devoted to the knitty side of the Wizarding World, or
– Counterfeit some Wizard coinage for the next time you hit Diagon Alley.
Okay. You’d rather stick with the needle arts?
– Ease yourself out of Harry Potter and back into the Star Wars galaxy by knitting your favorite baby a felted Yoda hat
– Money woes preventing you from buying that new game system? Embroider your own!
– Don’t forget to crochet some games to go with it, while you’re at it
– Is sewing more your thing? How about hitchhiking across the galaxy with this really nifty Planetoid Purse?
Alright. Your skills lie elsewhere. Like food maybe?
– Make your favorite geek’s snacktime special with Circuitry Snacks
– Or ramp up the classiness of your wedding with this Mario cake or an entire XBox!
If you are geekily crafty, we’d love to share it. Just drop us a line!
The JK Rowling Interview
The first part of the Today Show’s interview with JK Rowling has aired. The second part airs on Friday.
Summary article (for those of us who are still at work ::cough::) and video can be found on their website.
Here there be SPOILERS. (Don’t say we didn’t warn you.)
Interview with J.K. Rowling
Today updated their first J.K. Rowling story with more info from their interview, and added another earlier this morning.
A terrible lack of poo-flinging monkeys
Speaking of Y: The Last Man, the book’s writer Brian K. Vaughan is interviewed over at StarWars.com. He’s also scripting a forthcoming arc for the Buffy comic.
She Speaks!
JK Rowling, chief instigator of the Potterdämmerung, will be appearing on NBC’s Today Show on Thursday and Friday. And (according to NBC’s teaser article) she’s now feeling free to discuss some key decisions.
Don’t go there if you’re not done reading!
Resistance is futile
I just happened to run across this, I swear: Seventy-two million copies. The world really isn’t going to shut up about Harry, are they? God help us all.
Speaking of, Andrew Wheeler and the Dozen Potter Stories.
Hell, not even the Sith are immune.
Potter Morning Newsblast: The End
Perhaps we slightly overestimated the whole Potterdämmerung thing. Live and learn! In any case, this is the last time I’m googling it.
All is well
- Deathly Hallows sets sales records. 8.3 million copies in 24 hours, and that’s just Scholastic. Globally, an estimated 20 million.
- Reviews: AP calls it a ‘fitting finale’; Entertainment Weekly, ‘stunningly beautiful;’ BBC, an ‘entirely fulfilling end.’
- Is Potter on track to being the biggest franchise of all time?
- Did Deathly Hallows harm Order of the Phoenix at the box office?