BOOK NEWS:

You'll find our review of the final Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", on line at Sol's welcome page here.

Earlier reviews are also on line, for "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix".

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FILM NEWS:

Reviews are on line for "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" and "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", and, most recently, film 6, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

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CHARACTERS: click on names of Characters in the huge table below to access the relevant pages, with links onwards to Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hogwarts Staff, Diagon Alley, Wands, Quidditch etc.

This page - like many of the pages on this website - is under construction whilst all the different aspects of the books are linked together. Sol's "Welcome page" gives details about the different areas of the site and new items being added - along with Harry Potter book reviews and film reviews - and the main Area 13 index page gives an overview of our reasons for creating this intricate guide to JK Rowling's Harry Potter books.

The massive amount of set-up work to engineer the interlinking of tens of thousands of keywords (characters, magic and spells, locations, items, creatures) across all seven books has now been completed. However in the light of ongoing uncertainties about 'Harry Potter copyrights' (affecting all websites or site areas with Harry-Potter-related themes), you may wish to read our Special Note of 1st July 2008. It provides a unique insight into *why* the Harry Potter books have been so successful - as well as showing "how to write like J K Rowling", if you'd like to see "how it was done" and you're planning to write a book some day ....