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Harry Potter: Outrage ignites as JK Rowling dropped from new trailer

Posting an article on this news, she quoted George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984. Rowling captioned her tweet: “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. The Penised Individual Who Raped You Is a Woman.”

As the controversy surrounding her trans views continues, Warner Bros have cut her name out of the latest Fantastic Beasts movie’s trailer, which launched on Monday.

The first film released in 2016 had the caption, “JK Rowling invites you”, before crediting her as writer and producer on the movie.

Two years later, The Crimes of Grindelwald trailer said, “From writer JK Rowling”, along with similar credits to her contribution.

READ MORE: JK Rowling was told ‘You will NEVER make money out of Harry Potter

Hogwarts Legacy will feature a PlayStation-exclusive quest

Hogwarts Legacy will feature an exclusive quest on PlayStation, it’s been revealed.

In response to a fan question about the quest, which was only discovered when the game was listed for pre-order on the PlayStation Store, Avalanche Games community manager Chandler Wood replied: “The PlayStation exclusive quest comes with any PlayStation version of the game. It is not tied to pre-order.

He added: “Pre-order on PlayStation will get you the Felix Felicis potion recipe. More details are coming soon.”

The Felix Felicis potion does not appear to be exclusive to PlayStation, as the Epic Games Store is also listing it as a pre-order bonus.

In the world of Harry Potter, Felix Felicis is a potion that grants the drinker incredible luck for a short period of time.

The contents of the exclusive quest are unknown, as are whether the quest will eventually be available on other platforms.

Earlier this week Warner Bros Games showed off the floating wand that comes with the Hogwarts Legacy’s Collector’s Edition in a new unboxing video.

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Warner Bros also recently announced that Hogwarts Legacy has been delayed until 2023.

In a post to Twitter, the company said: “Hogwarts Legacy will launch on February 10, 2023 for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC. The Nintendo Switch launch date will be revealed soon.

“The team is excited for you to play, but we need a little more time to deliver the best possible game experience.”

Developed by Avalanche Software (Disney Infinity), the title is described as an open-world RPG that takes players beyond Hogwarts to new and familiar locations, as they “live the unwritten and embark on a dangerous journey to uncover a hidden truth of the wizarding world.”

10 Years Later: ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ Was an Uncommonly Deep High-School Movie

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, written and directed by Stephen Chbosky and based on Chbosky’s own novel, is one of the best teen movies of the 2010s.  

Set in the early 1990s, the film is very specific to that time period, and as someone who was that exact age at that exact time, the film always felt true to me. This is a film with an acute understanding of the types of high school groups who went to midnight showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1992. 

The film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2012 and then reached theaters the following week, 10 years ago last week. When it comes to romantic movies about mental illness that came out in the fall of 2012 and were set in Pennsylvania, Perks is a way, way better movie than Silver Linings Playbook

The Plot

Logan Lerman plays Charlie, a depressed kid fresh out of a mental institution who dreads starting high school. Once he does, he soon falls into a new group of friends, led by artsy step-siblings Patrick (Ezra Miller) and Sam (Emma Watson). He’s highly smitten with Sam and finds a true friend in Patrick, the sort of unique queer character who really stood out in the cinema of the time. 

Charlie gets into a relationship he doesn’t want with a member of the clique (Mae Whitman) while continuing to pine for Sam, although their relationship is a lot more complicated than one would expect. 

Throughout, Charlie is haunted by visions of his late aunt (Melanie Lynskey). We’re meant to wonder where this is going, and the conclusion is absolutely jarring, in part because Lynskey is almost always such a likable, reassuring presence and here she’s, well, the exact opposite. 

Promising Cast

Lerman gives an understated but fine performance in the film, and Watson shone in her first major role outside of the Harry Potter franchise. 

But the true breakout was Ezra Miller. Miller, these days, is often in the news for very horrific reasons and has turned out to be, it appears not the best person. But Miller, between Perks and We Need to Talk About Kevin the year before, showed incredible promise in the early part of their career. 

The cast was also full of familiar faces, including Nina Dobrev as Charlie’s sister, Nicolas “Cousin Greg” Braun as the sister’s boyfriend, and future Anna Delvey, Julia Garner as a classmate. 

Shot in Pittsburgh at the time when that was the hip film location, it used that location better than most of its contemporaries did, especially in a famous moment in one of the city’s tunnels (in that scene, the plot leans heavily on, in a pre-Shazam world, the characters not recognizing David Bowie’s “Heroes”):

In a movie released about a year after the Jerry Sandusky scandal, all the references to Penn State and its football team were pretty jarring, especially in a movie that also dealt with child sexual abuse. 

Chbosky’s next movie as a director was 2017’s heartwarming Wonder, and then he came back four years later with the misbegotten movie adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen, one is almost utterly undone by the casting of a too-old Ben Platt in the title role. But I prefer to look back on the director’s much better high school movie. 

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is streaming on both HBO Max and paramount+. 


Why Trans Allies on Twitter Don’t Want You to Buy the New Harry Potter Game

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J.K. Rowling Claimed That She “Didn’t Want” To Attend The “Harry Potter” Reunion Special After She Was Asked If She Was “Excluded”

Harry Potter Day comes to Brighton March 12 – Brighton Standard

Historic Downtown Brightron will host Harry Potter Day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 12.

The attractions are easy to figre out .. a Goblet of fire Challenge at Surge Spin, Quidditch Stadium at Ksmet Starrz, Order of the Phoenix at The Porch, Apothecary at Silk Med Spa, Honeydukes at Bee and Thistle Marketshops, Pins and Needles and Pins Needles and The Pink Cauldron at The Pink Door Nail Salon.

Maps are available at participating businesses.

JK Rowling speaks out on Harry Potter reunion ‘snub’ and being ‘trapped’ in fan encounter

Since then, Rowling has spoken of the dangers of erasing the concept of sex and penned a long follow-up blog on her views.

Some Harry Potter movie stars including the lead trio Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson have distanced themselves from her comments, publicly making statements like “Trans women are women. Trans men are men.”

At the start of this year, the Blockbuster series’ trio reunited with other cast members for a Harry Potter 20th anniversary special called Return to Hogwarts.

However, the creator herself was nowhere to be seen as a talking head apart from in archive footage.

Hogwarts Legacy’s $300 collector’s edition may have an exclusive quest

An Amazon Germany listing for Hogwarts Legacy has suggested that a certain quest may be exclusive to the $300 Collector’s Edition of the game.

Initially spotted by Reddit user Tintinnabuearly and then verified across multiple listings by VGC, the quest – which translates to “Hogsmeade Haunted Shop” – appears as a listed feature of both the Xbox and PS5 versions of the Collector’s Edition, but isn’t mentioned in the listings for the other versions.

This could be a listing error – the quest could be available in the cheaper special editions of the game, or could actually be the PlayStation exclusive quest that was revealed earlier today, also mentioned in the Xbox listing by mistake.

Update – Developer responds27th Aug 2022 / 1:54 pm

Hogwarts Legacy’s developer has claimed that all editions of the PlayStation version will include its exclusive quest.

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If the listing is correct, however, it would mean that a portion of the game could be locked behind the $300 version, at least on day one.

“Hogsmeade Haunted Shop” could refer to The Shrieking Shack, an abandoned house in Hogsmeade that was featured in the third entry in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

VGC has reached out to Warner Bros for clarification and will update this story should we get a reply.

This is the second quest-based surprise for Hogwarts Legacy fans following the news that an unknown quest will be exclusive to PlayStation.

In response to a fan question about the quest, which was only discovered when the game was listed for pre-order on the PlayStation Store, Avalanche Games community manager Chandler Wood replied: “The PlayStation exclusive quest comes with any PlayStation version of the game. It is not tied to pre-order.

He added: “Pre-order on PlayStation will get you the Felix Felicis potion recipe. More details are coming soon.”

Hogwarts Legacy’s $300 collector’s edition may have an exclusive quest

The Felix Felicis potion does not appear to be exclusive to PlayStation, as the Epic Games Store is also listing it as a pre-order bonus.

Earlier this week Warner Bros Games showed off the floating wand that comes with the Hogwarts Legacy’s Collector’s Edition in a new unboxing video.

Warner Bros also recently announced that Hogwarts Legacy has been delayed until 2023.

In a post to Twitter, the company said: “Hogwarts Legacy will launch on February 10, 2023 for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC. The Nintendo Switch launch date will be revealed soon.

“The team is excited for you to play, but we need a little more time to deliver the best possible game experience.”

Developed by Avalanche Software (Disney Infinity), the title is described as an open-world RPG that takes players beyond Hogwarts to new and familiar locations, as they “live the unwritten and embark on a dangerous journey to uncover a hidden truth of the wizarding world.”

Mom of daughter who had cancer on reading ‘Harry Potter’ together

  • I started reading “Harry Potter” out loud to my daughter when she was in kindergarten.
  • It became more of a practice as she went through cancer treatment.
  • When she returned to school, she had something to talk about with her friends.

Over 3 million people read ; you should too!

I started reading the “Harry Potter” series aloud to my daughter when she was in kindergarten.

Magic and belief were as accessible for her as air, even when, a few chapters in, she was gasping for breath. “Keep reading,” she would say — until we learned her cancer was so advanced that her lungs were collapsing, and then she could only point.

Barely capable of thought, I would ask her if she wanted me to read. She would nod. Sweaty, drifting in and out of sleep, she listened.

Too sick to complain about being sick, she longed for mother comforts. My voice. My body, close to hers. And magic. I straddled two fantastical landscapes: one a boarding school for witches and wizards, the other a pediatric intensive-care unit.

Between the pulpy soft pages came the diagnosis, the treatment, and, eventually, the hope.

We read through her cancer treatment

We moved slowly through the first book of the series as we were both exhausted and constantly interrupted. Cytarabine could easily have been a character born of J.K. Rowling’s imagination, perhaps a Death Eater. Medically and metaphorically speaking it was a death eater, another tool to kill her “bad cells.”

“I’m hot,” my daughter said one day. As soon as I touched her, I jumped. Fevers were not unexpected with cytarabine, but even after she was given meds her temperature kept going up. When her fever hit 107.9 degrees, our nurse said, “I’m getting some ice.” “Wingardium leviosa,” I thought to myself. “Let’s fly away.”

On we went, reading and talking about The Boy Who Lived while I begged the universe for my child to do the same. Some days I would read pages and pages aloud to my daughter without absorbing a single word.

By book three, the children at Hogwarts were more real to her than her own friends, whom she hadn’t seen in months. She missed almost a year of school — nearly all of first grade — but she did return cancer-free and bald as a baby.

The distance we felt from our old life held a chasm of changes. How would she reconnect with her little friends? She has been to places I hope they never have to go to and experienced pain I hope they never feel.

The books helped her connect with her friends

But something magical happened. While we were in the hospital going through chapter after chapter, her friends were doing the same back home in their bedrooms. She easily fell into a shared experience with her long-lost playmates using a common language of giants and spells and Triwizard Tournaments.

She got better, and we kept up with our reading ritual.

According to Scholastic, the publisher of the series, there are 4,224 pages in the US editions. I look at those paperbacks stacked high at my bedside and think of the wiggly teeth lost, the sight words learned, the blood-pressure checks, the bad days at school, the good days in the hospital, negative COVID-19 tests, positive COVID-19 tests, Google Classroom instead of real classrooms — all these moments tangibly turned into piles of pages.

Over the course of our reading quest, my daughter’s hairstyle evolved from pigtails to baldness to buzz cut to pixie to shag to bob to chin length to shoulder length to long, smooth, shiny, deep-brown hair that swings down her back when she throws her head back laughing.

We read all the “Harry Potter” books together over the rest of her time in elementary school. Last night, she turned to me and said, “You did a good job reading that.”

“Which part?” I asked.  

“All of it,” she said.

I can’t help but wonder if I will ever read aloud to her again. In the fall, she’ll begin middle school. She’s older now. She’s better now. I stared at her, The Girl Who Lived, and got a little choked up — until she said, “How about we read the ‘Lord of the Rings’ books next?”

Things to do in Baltimore Sept. 23 to 29

Listen to one of country’s celebrated duos, Harry Potter fans unite for an evening of fun, see artworks created by a local artist, treat your pet to a pool day or raise a stein of beer.

Country music fans get your tickets to see duo Maddie and Tae perform at the Baltimore SoundStage. Street, 124 Market Place. They are known for such hit songs as “Die From A Broken Heart,” “Girl in a Country Song,” and “After the Strom Blows Through,” Ticket prices start at $15. baltimoresoundstage.com

Saturday 8 p.m.

Adult Harry Potter fans take a “Grown Up Field Trip: Welcome to Hogwarts” at the Maryland Science Center, 601 Light Street. Enjoy drinks from Linganore Winecellars and Pharm Brewing Company, hunt down ghosts in castles, play Quidditch and more. Tickets cost $40. mdsci.org

Friday 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

See the works of Maryland-based artist Oletha DeVane at Spectrum of Light and Spirit at the UMBC Center for Art Design and Visual Culture, 1000 Hilltop Circle. DeVane works in many media, including public sculpture. Head to the first floor of Fine Arts Building Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. umbc.edu

Sept. 22 through Dec. 17

Help save homeless animals and pamper your pet at the Festival for the Animals at Padonia Park Club, 12006 Jenifer Road Cockeysville. There will be fun activities, food and drink for pets and their owners. Well-behaved leashed dogs can participate in the Dog Swim, with proof of vaccination for Rabies, Bordetella and Distemper/Parvo. Tickets cost $29.99 to $39.99 for adults and kids get in free. Proceeds from the event help homeless animals at the Maryland SPCA. mdspca.org

Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Get your drink on at the Oktoberfest Guilford Anniversary Party at Guilford Hall Brewery, 1611 Guilford Avenue. General admission is free. Early Bird All You Can Drink costs $30 and Early Bird All You Can Eat Drink costs $80. eventbrite.com

Saturday 11 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.

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