Universal Orlando affords its first sneak preview of J.K. Rowling's realm
Emma Watson may have wanted to just blend in when she started her freshman year recently at Brown University, but it seems not everyone has the same idea.
Neither the magic of Harry Potter nor the combined star power of Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler was enough to keep a crew of wise-cracking guinea pigs from scurrying to the top of the box office this weekend.
Jamie Waylett, who plays a Hogwarts bully, gets 120 hours of community service
In "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," the threat from villainous Lord Voldemort is ignored until it's almost too late.
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" hit thousands of theater screens across the country at midnight Wednesday.
Entering his sixth year at Hogwarts, Harry Potter may not be able to see the finishing line, but he knows it's coming.
The end is closer than the beginning.
What would you ask the cast of "Harry Potter" if you had the chance?
If Potions Professor Horace Slughorn had mixed a brew to conjure up torrential rain, the weather could not have been worse for the premiere of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."
Universal Orlando affords its first sneak preview of J.K. Rowling's realm
Emma Watson may have wanted to just blend in when she started her freshman year recently at Brown University, but it seems not everyone has the same idea.
Neither the magic of Harry Potter nor the combined star power of Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler was enough to keep a crew of wise-cracking guinea pigs from scurrying to the top of the box office this weekend.
Jamie Waylett, who plays a Hogwarts bully, gets 120 hours of community service
In "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," the threat from villainous Lord Voldemort is ignored until it's almost too late.
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" hit thousands of theater screens across the country at midnight Wednesday.
Entering his sixth year at Hogwarts, Harry Potter may not be able to see the finishing line, but he knows it's coming.
The end is closer than the beginning.
What would you ask the cast of "Harry Potter" if you had the chance?
If Potions Professor Horace Slughorn had mixed a brew to conjure up torrential rain, the weather could not have been worse for the premiere of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."
The Harry Potter star and "nerd" can't wait to hit the books, not the beach
A first-edition Harry Potter book was sold for about $19,000, according to an auction house in Dallas, Texas.
The killer of "Harry Potter" actor Rob Knox has been given four life sentences and told he will be behind bars for at least 20 years.
A 22-year-old man fatally stabbed Rob Knox, 18, who plays Marcus Belby
A habitually violent young man was convicted Wednesday of the murder of teenage actor Rob Knox, who had starred in the latest "Harry Potter" film.
The seventh and concluding film in the series will open July 15, 2011
Harry Potter and the Half-Blooded Prince opens in July, but look what's here
J.K. Rowling's U.S. publisher is trying to match her success with a new series of children's books that adds multimedia -- but seems a little more engineered
A federal judge on Monday ruled against a Web site operator who was seeking to publish an encyclopedia about the Harry Potter series of novels, blocking publication of "The Harry Potter Lexicon" after concluding that it would cause author J.K. Rowling "irreparable injury."
An 800-word prequel to the blockbuster Harry Potter novel series fetched nearly $50,000 Tuesday for a writer's group and dyslexia charity.
Harry Potter illustrator Mary GrandPre dishes on keeping secrets, Harry at 60 and the responsibilities inherent in bringing a favorite fictional character to life
Rob Knox – a star of the upcoming Potter film – was stabbed outside a bar
It's a battle worthy of Harry Potter himself.
J.K. Rowling said Monday that her efforts to halt a publisher's "Harry Potter" lexicon have been crushing her creativity
J.K. Rowling has retired Harry Potter, but the fictional boy wizard lives in on college classes across the country where the children's books are embraced as literary and academic texts.
The last installment of J.K. Rowling's hit series will be developed into not one, but two feature films
By borrowing elements from the book series, a school in England has turned its grades around
Fan Fiction Flourishes on the Net
The last installment of the Harry Potter series sold a record-breaking 11.5 million copies in the U.S. in the first 10 days on sale, the book's publisher Scholastic announced Thursday.
TIME's Lev Grossman grabs an early copy of Deathly Hollows and finds it a sad but satisfying wrap-up to J.K. Rowling's seven-novel epic
With a new Harry Potter movie and book coming out, CNN.com asked readers to send in their photos of the witches and wizards they love. We received a number of photos and stories from creative readers.
It was a night of broken curfews and late bedtimes as fans around the globe lined up to buy the final installment in the Harry Potter series at 12:01 a.m.
The final book in the Harry Potter series sold an estimated 8.3 million copies in its first 24 hours of sale, setting a new record for the book industry, according to U.S. publisher Scholastic.
Millions of readers are still making their way through the latest Harry Potter, but book sellers are already happy with the outcome.
No book has ever seen this much fever-pitch anticipation and excitement around the world.
The ending has come for Harry Potter.
As the clock keeps ticking toward the magic hour when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is released - 12:01 a.m. this coming Saturday - fans eager to find out whether their hero lives or dies are under attack by an invasion of spoilers.
It's a difficult age. Fifteen-year-old Harry Potter (the ever-improving Daniel Radcliffe) is at the mercy of his hormones. He's having trouble sleeping, his guardians -- the Dursleys -- want no more to do with him, and he's threatened with expulsion from Hogwarts after pulling out his wand in public. It feels like the whole world is against him.
Will the seventh Harry Potter book, due out July 21, really be the final one in the series?
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe may be a good kisser, but the single actor has trouble finding appropriate smooching partners.
Life on the Harry Potter set apparently is as chummy as it appears onscreen: Emma Watson says when she needs help understanding guys, she turns to her costars.
FOR FICTION'S MOST FAMOUS GOLD BUG
The mystery surrounding the end to fictional British boy wizard Harry Potter's saga deepened Wednesday with a computer hacker posting what he said were key plot details, and a publisher warned the details could be fake.
Harry Potter star Emma Watson has revealed what she likes in boys - and wizardry is not a requirement.
The latest Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," will have a record-breaking 12 million copies printed in its first run, according to a release.
The final chapter of the Harry Potter series has at least one thing in common with the first six - it's already a runaway best seller, six months before it hits store shelves.
The final Harry Potter book will hit bookstores July 21, its publishers announced early Thursday.
The wait may almost be over for Harry Potter fans. Author J.K. Rowling announced Thursday the name of the seventh, and final, book in the series about the popular boy wizard.
7/7/07. A year from Friday is the day when many Harry Potter fans hope to get their hands on the next book in J.K. Rowling's popular series about the boy wizard.
Who are the Harry Potter movies for, anyway?
The most-talked about movie-star scene this year wasn't Harry Potter getting chosen by the Goblet of Fire. It wasn't "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" getting his chest hair ripped off. It wasn't Sarah Silverman telling a filthy joke, or Darth Vader getting burned, or George Clooney being tortured.
The "flying" car used in the Harry Potter films has been stolen from a film studio lot, police say.
Booksellers around the world have been aching to get their hands on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which finally hits stores this month. After all, the five books currently in print have s...
Less than 24 hours after the English edition of the latest Harry Potter book went on sale in China's capital on the weekend, the full text of the 672-page tome was available for free on the Internet as an unauthorized e-book, the Beijing News reported on Wednesday.
Now it's time to start reading.
The frenzy over the latest Harry Potter book has begun.
The first truckload of new Harry Potter books arrived at a bookstore Monday, but there's apparently no wizardry on Earth that can help fans get a sneak peak before the books go on sale at midnight Saturday.
Here we go again.
This summer, we're off to see the wizard -- and "Deep Throat," Walt Whitman, John Irving, a few vampires, some sharks and an unhappy San Francisco family.
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has won a court order to stop two men leaking details of her latest work after they were arrested in a dramatic operation to recover two copies of the book.
The sixth book in the popular Harry Potter series will be titled "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince," the books' author J.K. Rowling has announced.
I'm just wild about Harry.
Cinemas in Britain are resorting to extreme measures in a bid to stamp out piracy that costs the movie industry billions of dollars a year.
The world's favorite wizard is getting ready for a new adventure. But secrecy surrounds the June 21 release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, as the book-publishing world sheds its gent...
Don't hate us because our parent company owns the rights. But look at these stats: The boy wizard's big-screen debut took in $90.3 million in its first three days, giving it the highest-grossing we...
A lot of kids (probably yours) think the four Harry Potter books are the greatest thing since The Phantom Tollbooth. They're definitely worth reading yourself, but in case you don't have the time, ...
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