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What a year it has been!  We've been through quite a lot, but one year ago we were all scrambling around trying to pick up clues on the just announced book title, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."  It may of been tonight, last year, that you read the most far fetched theory, or it could have been a year ago tonight someone predicted how much Snape really did love Lily.  No matter what you read or heard last year on this night, there's no doubt that this year has been amazing and pretty much topped all other years when it comes down to Harry Potter.

The Order of the Phoenix Teaser Trailer was released November 17th in front of Happy Feet. We all went to see the movie just to see about 30 seconds of flashes of light and then the Harry Potter logo.

As that happened, theories were bubbling all around the web creating questions and new rumors.  Popular theories were Mrs. Weasley being Hermione from the future, Snape loving Lily, Kreacher drinking the potion in the cave, Fawkes having a horcrux, the Time-Turner theory in which Harry goes back in time and accepts his parents deaths, there are so many, and some we say now looking back, "Woah!" or "If I just thought one step forward", and some you say, "What the heck was I thinking?!"

We got our first real trailer of Order of the Phoenix April 22, and it amazed and shocked us all.  We could not wait for July 13th, the day the movie was scheduled to be released.

As movie news rolled along and pictures spilled out from Warner Brothers, we all held our breath as we got Cover Art, and news of factories printing the books in the dark, and walking in candlelight.

But then on July 21st, the countdown has ended all over the world. Not only were the lines and lines of people moving forward to the seven hundred and eighty four paged book, but Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was becoming the fastest selling book in history.  Many fans finished the book on July 21st its self, after boxes of tissue and endless empty coffee mugs, we all knew the truth.  We all learned the answers we had been speculating for years.

And now here we are, standing still strong, still named the Harry Potter Fandom.  Many people said that 2007 is the end of the fandom and Harry Potter.  Some fansites are slowing down but we promise that Lumos-Light will continue to stay strong, or at least until we die that is.

The Harry Potter Fandom has lived through it all, and here we are as the clock is counting down for January 1st of 2008.  Look at the journey we've made.  Look at the journey we made with Harry.

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As said previously, Amazon purchased Jo Rowling's public Tales of Beedle the Bard.  Now they are reviewing each tale so everyone can enjoy them.  The book isn't up, but lengthy review are up for each story.  Amazon now has up links to The Wizard and the Hopping Pot, The Fountain of Fair Fortune, The Warlock's Hairy Heart, Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump, and The Tale of the Three Brothers. 

Read more about "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot"
Read more about "The Fountain of Fair Fortune"
Read more about "The Warlock's Hairy Heart"
Read more about "Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump"
Read more about "The Tale of the Three Brothers"

Congrats Amazon!  All the tales look different and unique in funny, scary, raw, and beautiful.  Congrats Jo!

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For awareness and for people to get education about problems in the world, Jo Rowling recently wrote seven copies of a handwritten book, Tales of Beedle the Bard.  A Collection of Wizarding Fairy Tales, that were mentioned in Deathly Hallows as Hermione's object from Dumbledore left in his will.  The book plays significant role in the plot, giving Hermione questions about the mysterious symbol she finds that leads to the finding of Xeno Lovegood who tells the trio of Tale of the Three Brothers and the Sign of the Deathly Hallows. 

Jo Rowling wrote Tales of Beedle the Bard and gave them out to six of the closest people in her life that helped the Potter books become what they are now.  The seventh and final handwritten copy of Beedle the Bard has been bought by Amazon.  All money from the book (£1,950,000) is going to The Children's Voice, a high-end charity group that raise awareness about children in need over Europe.  Not only does The Children's Voice address the problem but they also find solutions so caging children and abuse can be stopped as much as possible.  The best part is that our own Jo formed the charity in 2006 and it has done exceedingly well since.

For more info about The Children's Voice, click here!

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Costing £8.99, Bloomsbury will be selling Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in paperback on July 5th, this summer.  We will update more when we get more information!  It is unknown when the US will get the paperback edition.

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Jo Rowling has made spectacular news by informing us that The Tales of Beedle the Bard is coming to life!  If you will remember, Hermione was left with the book from Dumbledore's will.  It is the book she saw the Deathly Hallows Symbol in, and decided to look for it.  Now, Jo Rowling has updated her site to announce that Tales of Beedle the Bard has been hand written in seven copies.  Jo says she will give away six, and auction off the final seventh.  Every penny of the auctioned money will go to The Children's Voice, a charity that founded by our Jo Rowling. It tries to stop the caging of children across Europe, and prevent children from poverty and homelessness.  The society has actually gone far beyond the original expectations, and we hope it can thrive to do even better.  Jo has written this book (again), handwritten.  The auction for the seventh book is at Sotheby', and some pictures are there too.  The stories will include: The Tale of the Three Brothers from the Deathly Hallows, and "The Fountain of Fair Fortune", "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot,", "Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump" and "The Warlock?s Hairy Heart".

If you do auction, good luck!


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