  September 13, 2003 Bend It Like Harry Potter He may an outstanding athlete, a gay idol, an international sports icon, the husband of a pop star, and an all around nice guy, but it is doubtful that David Beckham's book can outsell- you guessed it- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix! September 10, 2003 Update Rumor Gallery updates! Could be important to some of you out there! September 7, 2003 Goblet Of Fire: 4 Hours? WizardNews has the story! September 3, 2003 Possible Book Titles This article, provided by TLC, has some interesting news on what could very well be the titles of books 6 and 7! Cos Wins Foreign Film Award HPANA reports this interesting story on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets winning an award for Best Foreign Film in China! New System For PhoenixNet's News As The Harry Potter News Center is currently not being updated for personal time reasons, PhoenixNet will now go under a change that will provide you with more news, faster. Starting in a week or so, all articles will simply be a linked title. Possible editorial comments and sources will appear near the articles if needed. I hope the system is easier for everyone! It will certianly give me more time to post news! German Cover Chosen The German Cover of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has been chosen! August 24, 2003 Forgotten Birthday! Oh dear!! We forgot to wish Harry Potter star Rupert Grint a happy birthday! He turned 15 yesterday! Happy birthday Rupert! (For those who don't know, Rupert plays Ron in the Harry Potter films) Editorials Since there's basically been no news for a few months and as content ideas are running short (even though some updates corresponding with book 5 could be made), I'm going to add an editorials section. If you have information, ideas, facts, or points to make- send them to me please! August 23, 2003 PhoenixNet: Looking To Expand Yes, you heard correctly. We are looking to make this site even bigger and better. I'm looking for anything and everything. My ultimate goal is to completely merge with another site. I couldn't pay for the domain or the hosting, but if you have a good site and are looking for someone to help you run it, please contact me with your site and some information about you. I'm also looking for contributors. If you can research content, find news articles (and eventually post them), or write editorials (brief or not), then PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let me know!!! Boxed Set Here we are! The Leaky Cauldron reports that all 5 Harry Potter books are going to be released in a boxed set! Nobel Prize Possibilities Gone? Could the possibility of J.K. Rowling earning herself a nomination for the Nobel Prize. I'm not sure she's the right choice (yet) however I'd love to see her get nominated! August 17, 2003 Australia's Search For Harry Harry Potter is in the top 3 most-searched-for names on the internet in Australia. Disney Harry Potter Ride The Leaky Cauldron points out this interesting article on the possibility of a Harry Potter theme park ride. Whether or not it will appear in a Disney park remains to be seen. Harry Potter Reflects Religion Thanks to Chris for pointing out this link about Harry's spiritual messages! August 16, 2003 About Not Updating I'm really sorry about neglecting to update anything on the PhoenixNet network in the last month. I've been busy and it's been difficult to be able to do some of these things. However, you should be expecting frequent updates from tomorrow on. We just hooked up our laptop to the internet and (though I'm not sure how to use the net on the go) I am now able to get online at almost all hours of the day because there is usually a free computer in the house. Also, I should be getting my own computer soon. I'm very, very sorry. As you may know, Mike Newell has been named the Goblet Of Fire director. News has sincew begun to surface on the topic of the GoF film, for which I will be adjusting our content accordingly. July 31, 2003 Birthdays, Birthdays, Birthdays! We're celebrating FOUR birthdays today in the Harry Potter world! First of all HAPPY BIRTHDAY J.K. ROWLING AND HARRY POTTER!!!!!!! We hope you have a great one, Jo! Also celebrating a birthday today is Richard Griffiths, the actor who plays Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films. HAPPY BIRTHDAY RICHARD. Lastly but certainly not leastly- PHOENIXNET TURNS A YEAR OLD TODAY!!! I'd just like to say that it's been a great year, even though recent months have been rather disapointing in terms of visitors, of course I haven't been updating as much as I should! Once again, HAVE A HARRY BIRTHDAY EVERYONE! ;) July 25, 2003 #1 For A Month! I'm proud to be the first to report that it's official this week as the charts came in (and as I saw in my issue of Entertainment Weekly) and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is #1 for the 4th consecutive week, making it easily the #1 and bestselling book of the last month! July 21, 2003 PhoenixNet- The Harry Potter RPG All are encouraged to join! Sorting will occur in August and if we don't have at LEAST 10 students per house (I'm setting my goals low so as not to be disapointed) don't have enough students, it can't happen people! July 17, 2003 Potter Stars Send Nick Birthday Greetings The stars of the Harry Potter films sent children's TV station Nickelodeon birthday greetings. July 15, 2003 A Passing Fad? People are calling Harry Potter a temporary crowd-pleaser. Shame on them! July 13, 2003 HUGE Apologies So sorry for the lack of updating! I was on vacation in NYC and the Hamptons and my laptop is not yet hooked up to our broadband server. Updates on content and news will be continuing once more now! July 2, 2003 Harry Potter News Center I've FINALLY re-opened the Harry Potter News Center at a new (and better-looking) location. Please please please visit! Astronomical Facts: Correct! The Leaky Cauldron is greatly thanked by PhoenixNet for discovering this interesting (but, in Jo Rowling's case, not surprising) article by NASA stating that the astronomy in Harry Potter is accurate! June 30, 2003 English Book Sells In France It seems that the French people really don't care if their books are in French. The English version of Harry Potter is at the top of the charts! (The book translated into French will be available at the end of the year) The Voice Behind The Magic The Toronto Sun has an article about Jim Dale today. June 29, 2003 RPG Since it'll be a while for book 6, I figured an RPG would be a great time killer. We need LOADS of people to make this work, so if you'd like to teach a class, let me know or head on over to the RPG and register as a student!!! (You must be a member of ezboard) June 26, 2003 New Page I added a new page, you'll probably like it, so check it out. Webcast Well, the webcast was great! The adult screening (no idea what the difference is) starts momentarily! You're supposed to be able to watch the event for about a week. Check it out! June 25, 2003 Special Edition Scans The Golden Snitch has some great scans of the special edition of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix! Book 5 Timeline The Harry Potter Lexicon has posted an amazing timeline showing the order of events in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I suggest you check it out- very cool! Webcast Details ...Are a little confusing, but can be found here. Parents Worry Over Webcast It seems that parents are concerned about J.K. Rowling's live webcast tomorrow night. June 24, 2003 Harry Potter Breaks Records Funnily enough, it's own records! They've been shattering records in England and in America! Post-OotP Hey everyone, welcome to the post-book 5 part of the world of the Harry Potter fans. I hope you all enjoyed the book as much as I did, and I also hope you were less confused than I about those last 2 chapters, particularly chapter 37 and the middle of 38! The site should be back to normal now! June 19, 2003 What You Can Expect For A While Well everyone, this is it! It's 11:00pm EST. Only 25 hours of waiting left. Tomorrow I won't be around the computer from 1:00pm on and once I purchase the book at midnight, I've no plans to pause my reading for website updates. I will probably spend about a half hour each day or night on the computer though, so PhoenixNet will definately alert you if anything big happens. Other than that, enjoy the book as much as I plan to! Paxman Interview The transcript to the Jeremy Paxman interview with J.K. Rowling from earlier today has been posted on BBC here. It's now in our J.K. Rowling interviews section. June 18, 2003 Internet Sales Harry Potter is (surprise, surprise!) selling extremely well on the internet! Ananova has reported that Amazon.co.uk has had 350,000 pre-orders of book 5. 350,000!!! That's a lot! The book's huge too, see it by click here, where you can also read the full story. Reminder- Hiring! You may not have noticed, but as the right sidebar says, I'm hiring. I really want to bring back Harry Potter News Center. It could be great, you know, if people apply. All that's required is that you post news as much as you can. So please apply now!!! It'll be greatly appreciated! NY Daily News Spoilers I suppose you must have heard about this article by now. It seems the NYDN has taken it down from their site, due to their wishes so as to not spoil the book for fans. I would post the article on here otherwise, because I feel that there are some fans who wish to read the spoilers, and those who don't want ANY spoilers at all might as well avoid the fandom entirely. However, if someone is able to send me the article, I still won't post it for fear of legal action. Sorry! June 17, 2003 J.K. Rowling's Tears It seems that writing Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix brought tears to the eyes of our favorite author. TIME Article Harry Potter is being featured on the cover of TIME Magazine this week. You can read the article and see the cute cover picture by clicking here. June 15, 2003 New Layout Is Here! My new layout is here! You may have noticed it appearing on other pages. I'm slowly adding it to all pages, but from here on it won't take this long to redesign the site! Less than a week until book five! |
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