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J. K. Rowling on the Web

• Official Potter Sites
  • J. K. Rowling Official Site -- Harry Potter and More (J. K. Rowling's site, at jkrowling.com. Elaborate, interactive, and including original content from Rowling herself. Great fun. Highly recommended.) For help, see PottersKeys (listed with "Reference," below).
  • Harry Potter (Albatros' site. Czech publisher.)
  • Harry Potter Books (Bloomsbury's site. U.K. publisher.)
  • Harry Potter (Carlsen's site. German publisher.)
  • Harry Potter (Gallimard's site. French publisher.)
  • Harry Potter (Scholastic's site. U.S. publisher.)
  • Harry Potter (Tammi's site. Finnish publisher.)
  • Harry Potter (Tiden's site. Swedish publisher.)
  • Harry Potter (Uitgeverij De Harmonie's site. Dutch Publisher.)
  • Warner Brothers' Harry Potter movie site (U.K. version)
  • Warner Brothers' Harry Potter movie site (U.S. version)
  • Warner Brothers' Harry Potter movie site (French version)
  • Warner Brothers' Harry Potter movie site (German version)
  • Warner Brothers' Harry Potter movie site (Spanish version)
  • Coca-Cola's Harry Potter: Live the Magic site
  • Comic Relief: Harry's Books (Information about Newt Scamander's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Kennilworthy Whisp's Quidditch Through the Ages, the proceeds for which go to Comic Relief U.K.)
• Official and semi-official Potter-related Sites
  • Colman Getty (Website of Rowling's publicist)
  • Jim Dale (Official site. Dale reads the U.S. audiobooks of the Potter series.)
  • Tom Felton: The Official Fan Club Website (Felton plays Draco Malfoy in the Potter films)
  • Stephen Fry (Fry reads the British audiobooks of the Potter series)
    • The Adventures of Stephen Fry (official site)
    • Fry's Potter: An Interview with Stephen Fry (at Amazon.co.uk.)
    • Quick Fry: The Stephen Fry Update Page (a fan site)
  • Official Mary GrandPré Fan Club (GrandPré illustrates Scholastic's editions of the Potter novels). Site announced that it will disappear in April 2003, and is no longer available.
  • Christopher Little Literary Agency (website of Rowling's agent, Christopher Little)
  • Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland (organization which Rowling supports; see Rowling's essay, "I Miss My Mother So Much")
  • One Parent Families (charity Rowling supports; she wrote the introduction to the organization's Families Just Like Us: The One Parent Families Good Book Guide [2000]).
  • The JOP Project (Official site of Oliver and James Phelps, the actors who portray George and Fred Weasley in the Potter films). No longer available.
  • Chris Rankin Online (official site for Rankin, who plays Percy Weasley in the Potter films)
  • Amazon.com's Harry Potter Store
  • Amazon.co.uk's Harry Potter Shop
• Reference
  • Accio Quote, which incorporates Quick Quotes Quill, established by Mike Gray (a.k.a. Aberfoth's Goat). Archive of interviews, maintained by Deborah Skinner (a.k.a. Madam Scoop), Lisa Waite Bunker, and others. Recommended.
  • Harry Potter Lexicon maintained by Steve Vander Ark. Highly recommended.
  • Wikipedia's J. K. Rowling entry and Harry Potter Category (with links to related entries).
  • PottersKeys, a guide to J. K. Rowling's Official Site. Very helpful.
• News Sites
  • DarkMark.com. Formerly The Wizard World (maintained by Danny Fleishman. Spews cookies and pop-under advertisements.)
  • The Leaky Cauldron (Up-to-the-minute Potter news. Recommended.)
  • Harry Potter Automatic News Aggregator (at hpana.com, maintained by Jeff Guillaume. Recommended.)
• Fan Sites
  • The Boy Who Lived, maintained by Claire Field
  • The Daily Prophet, maintained by Heather Lawver
  • Dumbledore Is Not Dead!, maintained by David Haber
  • Everything There Is to Know About Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (Unless You're JKR)
  • The Floo Network "Harry Potter News, Quotes, Lexicon and Galleries All in One Place." Recommended.
  • Harry Potter, maintained by Carolyn Gundrum.
  • Harry-Potter-Kiste (in German) or Harry Potter Box (in English), maintained by Viola Owlfeathers (Cornelia Rémi). Includes fascinating stuff like Harry Potter International (chart of what names become in various translations) and Harry Potter Bibliography / Bibliographie (a great bibliography of Potter scholarship). Recommended.
  • Harry Potter Lexicon maintained by Steve Vander Ark. Highly recommended.
  • The Harry Potter Network, maintained by Christie Chang.
  • Harry Potter's Realm of Wizardry
  • The Hogwarts Galleries.
  • The HP for Grownups Portkey. See also listservs, below.
  • Immeritus: A Sirius Black Fan Club
  • Magic Hogwarts, maintained by Nick Hundley. Includes chat rooms and an Interviews page.)
  • MuggleNet, maintained by Emerson Spartz.
  • The-Pensieve.org.
  • The Unofficial Harry Potter Fan Club, maintained by Jenna Robertson. This site has been discontinued.
• Interviews, Autobiography, Biography
  • Accio Quote, which incorporates Quick Quotes Quill, established by Mike Gray (a.k.a. Aberfoth's Goat). Archive of interviews, maintained by Deborah Skinner (a.k.a. Madam Scoop), Lisa Waite Bunker, and others. Recommended.
  • BBC: profile of J. K. Rowling
  • BBC: Transcript of JK's OOTP Newsnight interview with Jeremy Paxman (excerpts; full interview aired 19 June 2003)
  • BBC News: In Depth: Harry Potter
  • Comic Relief's J. K. Rowling Transcript (12 March 2001). No longer available at Comic Relief's site, but still available thanks to the Quick Quotes Quill
  • Larry King's "Elizabeth Hurley Talks About Playing the Devil in 'Bedazzled'; J.K. Rowling Discusses the Surprising Success of 'Harry Potter'" (CNN's Larry King Live, 20 Oct. 2000).
  • Leaky Cauldron / MuggleNet Interview by Melissa Anelli and Emerson Spartz (16 July 2005):
    • Part 1
    • Part 2
    • Part 3
  • Magic, Mystery, and Mayhem: An Interview with J. K. Rowling (1999; formerly at Amazon.com, now available courtesy of Quick Quotes Quill)
  • Meet J. K. Rowling (at Scholastic's Harry Potter site)
  • "The Not Especially Fascinating Life So Far of J. K. Rowling" by J. K. Rowling (brief autobiography that was at OKUK Books' Harry Potter's Web Site, and which can still be read, courtesy of Cliphoto's Harry Potter Resource Page. Recommended).
  • "I Miss My Mother So Much" by J. K. Rowling (Inside MS, Summer 2002)
  • Rowling, J.K. (biographical profile at the Educational Paperback Association)
  • Linda Richards' "J. K. Rowling: January Profile" (January Magazine, Oct. 2002)
  • The Scotsman's three-part biographical profile:
    • "The J.K. Rowling Story" by Stephen McGinty (The Scotsman, 16 June 2003): Part One of Three.
    • "In the eye of the storm" by Stephen McGinty (The Scotsman, 17 June 2003): Part Two of Three.
    • "The legacy of Harry" by Stephen McGinty (The Scotsman, 18 June 2003): Part Three of Three.
  • Evan Solomon's J.K. Rowling Interview (Hot Type, CBC, July 2000. Recommended.).
  • Stories From the Web's J. K. Rowling Interview
• Sites for Teachers
  • Inez Ramsey's J. K. Rowling: Teacher's Resource File
  • Harry Potter: Fun with Harry, Teacher's Edition (teaching suggestions)
  • "Literary Wizardry: A Writing Lesson Inspired by the 'Harry Potter' series" by Katherine Schulten and Tanya Yasmin Chin (at the New York Times' Learning Network and "Developed in Partnership with the Bank Street College of Education in NYC")
  • Teachervision.com's Lesson Plan: International Cover Art for Harry Potter (warning: opens several new advertisement windows upon entering the site)
  • Teaching with Harry Potter at "A to Z Teacher Stuff" (links to teaching suggestions)
  • English 440. Harry Potter's Library: J.K. Rowling, Texts and Contexts. Syllabus and course materials for my class, Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2003 and Spring 2002.
  • See also Reference, above.
• Conferences
  • Nimbus 2003: A Harry Potter Symposium, organized by the HP Education Fanon, Inc. (Orlando, Fla., USA, July 2003)
  • The Witching Hour, organized by the HP Education Fanon, Inc. (Salem, Mass., USA, Oct. 2005)
  • Lumos, organized by the HP Education Fanon, Inc. (Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 2006)
  • Prophecy 2007: From Hero to Legend, organized by the HP Education Fanon, Inc. (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Aug. 2007)
• Listservs
  • HPforGrownups
  • HPforGrownups-Movie
• Literary Criticism (on-line)
  • Amy Billone, "The Boy Who Lived: From Carroll's Alice and Barrie's Peter Pan to Rowling's Harry Potter," Children's Literature 32 (2004): 178-202 <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/childrens_literature/v032/32.1billone.html>. (Available to subscribers of Project Muse.)
  • Noel Chevalier, "The Liberty Tree and the Whomping Willow: Political Justice, Magical Science, and Harry Potter," The Lion and the Unicorn 29.3 (2005): 397-415 <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lion_and_the_unicorn/v029/29.3chevalier.html>. (Available to subscribers of Project Muse.)
  • Gail A. Grynbaum, "The secrets of Harry Potter," San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal 19.4 (2001): 17-48 <www.cgjungpage.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=145&Itemid=40>.
  • Roni Natov, "Harry Potter and the Extraordinariness of the Ordinary," The Lion and the Unicorn 25.2 (April 2001): 310-27 <muse.jhu.edu/journals/lion_and_the_unicorn/v025/25.2natov.html>. (Available to subscribers of Project Muse.)
  • Philip Nel, "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bored: Harry Potter, the Movie." Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 46.2 (Oct. 2002): 172-75. Repr. Reading Online Nov. 2002 <www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/lit_index.asp?HREF=/newliteracies/jaal/10-02_column>.
  • Philip Nel, "Is There a Text in This Advertising Campaign?: Literature, Marketing, and Harry Potter." The Lion and the Unicorn 29.2 (Apr. 2005): 236-267. <muse.jhu.edu/journals/lion_and_the_unicorn/v029/29.2nel.html>. (Available to subscribers of Project Muse.)
  • John Pennington, "From Elfland to Hogwarts, or the Aesthetic Trouble with Harry Potter." The Lion and the Unicorn 26.1 (Jan. 2002): 78-97 <muse.jhu.edu/journals/lion_and_the_unicorn/v026/26.1pennington.html>. (Available to subscribers of Project Muse.)
  • Jessy Randall, "Wizard Words: The Literary, Latin, and Lexical Origins of Harry Potter's Vocabulary." Verbatim: The Language Quarterly 26.2 (Spring 2001): 1, 3-7 <www.verbatimmag.com/online_issues.html>. (Click on "Vol. XXVI No. 2 Spring 2001" to read a PDF file.)
  • Courtney Strimel, "The Politics of Terror: Re-Reading Harry Potter." Children’s Literature in Education 35.1 (Mar. 2004): 35-52 <www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1023/B:CLID.0000018899.06267.11>
  • Cornelia Rémi's Harry Potter Bibliography / Bibliographie, a very thorough bibliography of Potter scholarship. Recommended.
• Media (Articles and Reviews)
  • BBC: "June debut for Potter latest" (15 Jan. 2003). Includes brief excerpts from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
  • at the Guardian Unlimited (Manchester, UK): Featured Author: J.K. Rowling, Links, and "Harry, Jessie and me" by Simon Hattenstone (8 July 2000)
  • Carol Hurst's Review of the Harry Potter books
  • "Heads-Up for Harry" by Shannon Maughan (Publisher's Weekly, 26 June 2000; can still be read courtesy of The Wayback Machine)
  • New Republic: "Harry Potter and the Spirit of the Age: Fear of Not Flying" by Lee Siegel (22 Nov. 1999). Available courtesty of the Wayback Machine, which captured the page on 4 Mar. 2000.
  • New York Review of Books: "Not for Muggles" by Alison Lurie (16 Dec. 1999)
  • at the New York Times: Featured Author: J. K. Rowling: most Times articles are archived here, including "Children's Books" by Michael Winerip (review of Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, 14 Feb. 1999), "Children's Book Casts a Spell Over Adults" by Doreen Carvajal (1 April 1999), "Book's Quirky Hero and Fantasy Win the Young" by Eden Ross Lipson (12 July 1999), "Lord of the Golden Snitch" by Gregory Maguire (essay-review of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 5 Sept. 1999), "The Playing Fields of Hogwarts" by Pico Iyer (10 Oct. 1999), "Don't Give Us Little Wizards, the Anti-Potter Parents Cry" by Jodi Wilgoren (1 Nov. 1999), "The Reality of the Fantasy in the Harry Potter Stories" by Richard Bernstein (30 Nov. 1999), "Booksellers Grab a Young Wizard's Cloaktails" by Doreen Carvajal (28 Feb. 2000), "Waiting for Harry Potter in Long Lines on the Net" by Michelle Slatalla (27 April 2000), "Publishers Use Secrecy in Harry Potter Promotion" by Alan Cowell (22 May 2000), "New Harry Potter Book Title Announced" by Reuters (27 June 2000), "New Harry Potter Book Becomes a Publishing Phenomenon" by Bernard Weinraub (3 July 2000), "Moby Dick on a Broom" by Gail Collins (7 July 2000), "Harry Potter Frenzy Continues" by Alan Cowell (8 July 2000), "Harry Potter Magic Halts Bedtime for Youngsters" by David K. Kirkpatrick (9 July 2000), "All Aboard the Potter Express" by Alan Cowell (10 July 2000), "Vanishing Off the Shelves" by David K. Kirkpatrick (10 July 2000), "At Last, the Wizard Gets Back to School" by Janet Maslin (review of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 10 July 2000), and more...
  • also at the New York Times: Spotlight on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (the film)
  • more New York Times articles (not archived above):
    • "Why I Paid so Much for a Children's Book" by Arthur A. Levine (13 Oct. 1999)
    • "Investors and Children Alike Give Rave Reviews to Harry Potter Books" by Alan Cowell (18 Oct. 1999)
    • "U.S. Author Sues Potter Writer" by the Associated Press (16 March 2000)
    • "Scholastic Confirms Harry Potter Title and Defends Amazon Policy" by Shannon Maughan (27 June 2000)
    • "The End of Innocence" by A. O. Scott (2 July 2000)
    • "Last Minute Glitch for Harry?" by Publishers Weekly (6 July 2000)
    • "The Subtlety of Hogwarts? Give a Wizard a Break!" by Alan Cowell (12 August 2000)
  • on NPR
    • All Things Considered of 3 Dec. 1998: features a RealAudio interview with Rowling
    • Morning Edition of 6 Aug. 1999: features a RealAudio piece on Harry Potter
    • Diane Rehm Show of 20 Oct. 1999: features a half-hour RealAudio interview with Rowling
    • National Press Club of 20 Oct. 1999: features a RealAudio of Rowling's address to NPC
    • Weekend Edition of 23 Oct. 1999: features RealAudio report on Chicago fans standing in line
    • Morning Edition of 29 Oct. 1999: features RealAudio report on the Harry Potter Phenomenon
    • Weekend Edition of 14 Nov. 1999: features RealAudio report on attempts to ban Potter
    • Morning Edition of 30 June 2000: features RealAudio report on secrecy surrounding Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    • All Things Considered of 30 June 2000: features RealAudio satire of Potter banners
    • Weekend Edition of 2 July 2000: features RealAudio commentary on Harry Potter phenomenon
    • Talk of the Nation of 6 July 2000: features RealAudio conversation with Leonard Marcus, Diane Roback, and Treei Schmitz
    • Morning Edition of 27 Oct. 2000: features RealAudio interview with Rowling
  • NBC: Behind the Magic of Harry Potter, hosted by Katie Couric (11 Nov. 2001). No longer available.
  • Salon.com Directory | Harry Potter. Salon's articles, including:
    • "Of magic and single motherhood" by Margaret Weir (interview, 31 March 1999)
    • "This sorcery isn't just for kids" by Charles Taylor (31 March 1999)
    • "Harry Potter's girl trouble" by Christine Schoefer (13 Jan. 2000)
    • "Harry Potter fans detect devilish discrepancy" by Garth Johnston (24 July 2000)
    • "A list of their own" by Kera Bolonik (16 Aug. 2000)
    • "Harry Potter hanky-panky" by Kera Bolonik (12 Jan. 2001)
    • "The politically incorrect house on the prairie" by Laura Miller (20 July 2001)
    • "Kiss Harry Potter goodbye" by Tracy Mayor (6 Nov. 2001)
  • at Slate
    • "Is Harry Potter the New Star Wars?" by A.O. Scott and Polly Shulman (epistolary discussion at Slate magazine, 23-26 Aug. 1999. Perceptive discussion of Rowling, but it contains spoilers: unless you've read the first three books, you might not want to read this.)
    • "The New Harry: Riotous, Rushed, and Remarkable" by Jodi Kantor and Judith Shulevitz (epistolary discussion at Slate magazine, 10-13 July 2000)
    • "When Harry Met Maggie" by Jessie Cohen (16 Nov. 2001)
  • Times (of London): Online Special: Harry Potter (30 June 2000), featuring "Harry and Me," Ann Treneman's interview with J. K. Rowling. This site is no longer here. However, a search of the Times' site will yield articles on Rowling.
  • at USA Today:
    • Pottermania (an archive of Potter articles)
    • "'Harry Potter': Arthur Levine": a chat with Rowling's editor at Scholastic Books (28 June 2000).
  • Voice of the Turtle: "Harry Potter and the closet conservative" by Richard Adams (31 May 2001)
  • at the Washintgon Post
    • "The Potter Countdown" by Ellen Edwards (30 June 2000)
    • "Harry Potter. A Wizard's Return" by George Will (4 July 2000)
    • "All Aboard the Publicity Train" by T. R. Reid (8 July 2000)
    • "Muggle vs. Wizard" by Linton Weeks (26 Mar. 2001)
  • "Welcome Back, Potter" by Helen M. Jerome (BOOK Magazine May/June 2000)
  • Zoom: Harry Potter books (responses from children across the U.S.A) Available courtesy of the Wayback Machine, which captured the page on 13 Apr. 2001.
• Wizard Rock
  • DJ Luna Lovegood (MySpace)
  • Draco and the Malfoys
  • Harry and the Potters
  • The Ministry of Magic (MySpace)
  • The Moaning Myrtles
  • The Parselmouths
  • The Remus Lupins
  • The Weird Sisters / Switchblade Kittens (MySpace)
  • The Whomping Willows (MySpace)
  • Wizardrocklopedia: Encyclopedia of Wizard Rock
• Fan Fiction
  • FictionAlley.org
  • The Sugar Quill
• Satire
  • Harry Potter! by all of the top editorial cartoonists (at Slate.com)
  • "Harry Potter Books Spark Rise in Satanism Among Children" (The Onion, 26 July 2000; no longer at The Onion's site, but can still be read [albeit without graphics], courtesy of The Wayback Machine, which captured the page on 15 Aug. 2000.)
  • "Children, Creepy Middle-Aged Weirdos Swept up in Harry Potter Craze" (The Onion, 5 December 2001)
  • "Harry Potter: Pampered jock, patsy, fraud" by Chris Suellentrop (Slate, 8 Nov. 2002)
  • Michael Gerber's Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody
• Opposition
  • Anti-Wizards Inc: A Clique Devoted to Uniting Harry Potter Haters
  • The Anti-Potter Education Society
• Activist, Legal, and Religious Issues
  • CNN Transcript -- Burden of Proof: 'Harry Potter' book lawsuit: 'Legend of Rah Rah and Muggles'
  • RealMuggles.com (Official website of Nancy K. Stouffer, author and litigant)
  • Focus on the Family:
    • "The Trouble with Harry" by John Andrew Murray (Citizen Magazine, 1999)
    • Focus on the Family's "What Shall We Do with Harry?" and review of the first Potter novel by Lindy Beam (available courtesy of The Wayback Machine)
  • The Nervous Witch (Chick Publications, 2002): scroll down to near the end of the narrative to see how the Harry Potterbooks led these two aspiring witches astray.
  • Muggles for Harry Potter (organization against those who would ban the Potter books). Now renamed KidSPEAK, "Where kids speak up for free speech!"
  • "Look Out, Harry Potter! -- Book Banning Heats Up" by Diane Weaver Dunne (Education World, 10 April 2000)
  • Save Harry! (www.saveharry.com laments Coca-Cola using Harry Potter "to sell soft drinks to children around the world," and urges Rowling to donate the royalties from Coca-Cola's sponsorship "to fund nutrition campaigns")
  • PotterWar (in response to Warner Bros' proposed legal actions against Claire Field and others, this U.K. site sought to raise legal funds and to encourage boycotting Warners' Potter products. Site is still there, but its campaign has ended.)
  • Defense Against the Dark Arts (U.S. site with aims parallel to PotterWar. Site is still there, but its campaign has ended.)
  • Photo of anti-Le Pen protester holding up sign reading "Voldemort / Le Pen, même combat; Harry Potter avec nous" (Voldemort / Le Pen, same fight [same message]; Harry Potter with us" (Le Monde 2 May 2002).
  • "J.K. Rowling deserves the Nobel Prize... ...and you can help her get it!" At www.nobelprizeforjo.com, James T. Downey hopes to persuade people to nominate Rowling for the Nobel Prize. No longer available.
• Links & Directories
  • HP Search
  • J. K. Rowling on the Web (you're here now)
  • Try a Google search (below)
• And, last but not least...
  • My nephew Graeme Blackman as Harry Potter

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