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".

Reviews are also on line for film 6, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and for the final two films, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - part 1" and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - part 2".

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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.

*** click on any Character name in the table below, or here for Characters A-Z

*** NEW *** update *** full list of over 750 Harry Potter character names now on line
in the wordsearch puzzles area - see Harry Potter Characters
... and ALL the Harry Potter wordsearch puzzles finally on line 1st September 2022.

This page was intended to remain "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, 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 was finally completed back in 2008. However in the light of ongoing uncertainties about 'Harry Potter copyrights' (affecting all websites or site areas with Harry-Potter-related themes), a 'Special Note' was written on 1st July 2008, explaining the possible issues if we were to work further on creating this resource.

However that overview 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". The success of the Harry Potter 7-book series was unlike anything the world has ever previously seen. How did she do it? Take a look.

NEWSLETTERS - this website has been on line since 1998 - there have been a lot of Newsletters! The archive is here and the very last Newsletter is here.