December 20th, 2008 — , What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
I’ve been taking notes on Beedle the Bard. I’m amazed at how much new information Rowling manages to cram into a very short book. I’ll be working on the Reader’s Guide as I get time. I’ve uploaded the notes for the introduction for you all to read and discuss. I’ve also added notes about the [...]
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December 6th, 2008 — , What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
The Lexicon will be offline for a short time this evening, beginning at 10 pm for server maintenance. I’ve been told that the procedure will take no longer than a half hour, and possibly less time than that.
Steve
December 5th, 2008 — , What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
I just finished reading through my copy of Tales of Beedle the Bard, and I am absolutely delighted with it. It’s so wonderful to read J.K. Rowling’s storytelling and tongue-in-cheek humour again. The stories are great, but I was particularly happy with the commentary. She gives us even more tantalising tidbits of information about her [...]
December 5th, 2008 — , What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
Well, I can finally tell you all what’s been keeping me so busy for the last six months. Today we announced the publication of The Lexicon: An Unauthorized Guide to Harry Potter Fiction and Related Materials, which will come out on the 12th of January. This book has been written to carefully follow the guidelines [...]
Online StoresNovember 24th, 2008 — , What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
I am delighted to let you all know that my book In Search of Harry Potter is on the shelves. The book was published by Methuen Publishing in London and is now available in shops in Britain. From what I’ve been told, it should be in the stores in the US in a few weeks. [...]
Online StoresSeptember 22nd, 2008 — , What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
Thanks to Claire M. Jordan, the author of an excellent essay in our collection, I have been able to update the page listing differences between the UK and US editions of Deathly Hallows. Most of the differences are simply substitutions of US terms for British ones (e.g. ‘crib’ for ‘cot’). There are a few interesting [...]
September 21st, 2008 — , What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
Recently, some of my friends have been receiving unwanted and annoying phone calls from members of the press, trying to get in contact with me. This is definitely not appreciated. One friend has had to change her phone number several times to avoid these kinds of calls, but is still receiving them.
To avoid this [...]
September 19th, 2008 — , What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
There’s been a decided lack of new posts here, I know. Sorry about that. I spent most of the week in London at the publisher working on the new book, In Search of Harry Potter, which is due out October the 9th, and so I’ve been commuting back and forth, which means hours on the [...]
Online StoresSeptember 8th, 2008 — , What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
I’ve fixed the Google search for the site, so have at it. Unfortunately, the Remembrall isn’t working right now because it’s fixed on the wrong domain. I’m sure we’ll be able to sort it out, but for now just use the Google search.
September 7th, 2008 — , What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
Great news! Thanks to Roonwit, we have our timelines back. Well, almost back. The back-up file was dated March 2007, so some material was lost. Also, since the domain names have changed, the links in the timeline entries themselves don’t work at the moment. However, we’re hoping to get things cleaned up, working properly, and [...]
September 5th, 2008 — , What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
As you might have noticed, the Lexicon has had some technical problems over the past week or so. We’re in the process of updating and upgrading everything. Part of the process involved transferring some domains around, and along the way an error resulted in the www.hp-lexicon.info domain losing its DNS settings. We can’t reset them [...]
February 27th, 2008 — , What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
Last night I finished entering Quidditch Through the Ages into the Portkey database. That’s the last of the books to be entered, so now the Portkey covers all seven novels and the two Schoolbooks, as well as all the Famous Wizard cards. Surprisingly, there was actually an earthquake just a few moments after I entered [...]
February 27th, 2008 — , What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
Last night I finished entering Quidditch Through the Ages into the Portkey database. That’s the last of the books to be entered, so now the Portkey covers all seven novels and the two Schoolbooks, as well as all the Famous Wizard cards. Surprisingly, there was actually an earthquake just a few moments after I entered [...]
February 23rd, 2008 — from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
With yesterday’s emphasis on Quidditch, I’ve been muddling about with the Portkey, adding information to the Timeline, and testing out how it all fits together. When I add a date to the Timeline, for example, it’s supposed to appear on the Timelines tab of the associated Portkey entries.
I tend to work in outline mode, by [...]
February 23rd, 2008 — from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
With yesterday’s emphasis on Quidditch, I’ve been muddling about with the Portkey, adding information to the Timeline, and testing out how it all fits together. When I add a date to the Timeline, for example, it’s supposed to appear on the Timelines tab of the associated Portkey entries.
I tend to work in outline mode, by [...]
February 22nd, 2008 — from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
Over the years, there have been a number of strange Quidditch matches played, many of them famous for their length or some odd circumstances surrounding them. Since February 22 is the anniversary of one of the strangest Quidditch matches in the Harry Potter books, I thought I’d mention it here, along with some other odd [...]
Online StoresFebruary 22nd, 2008 — , What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
Over the years, there have been a number of strange Quidditch matches played, many of them famous for their length or some odd circumstances surrounding them. Since February 22 is the anniversary of one of the strangest Quidditch matches in the Harry Potter books, I thought I’d mention it here, along with some other odd [...]
Online StoresFebruary 12th, 2008 — , What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
Questions have been asked and accusations made which require some kind of response. Specifically, I have been accused of lying in my declaration. This is a very serious charge. I want to make a clear statement of the facts.
In my declaration, I wrote that the income from the advertising on the Lexicon has “…covered the [...]
January 2nd, 2008 — What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
After discussion with Lisa, I’ve decided to change the way we indicate Pottercast references. The interview with Jo is now referenced as PC-JKR1 and PC-JKR2. Any other Pottercast references will be given as PC#, so that a citation of Pottercast 121 will be PC121.
There have been some questions about the dates Jo has used for [...]
January 1st, 2008 — What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
I have updated the timeline and the day-by-day calendar to indicate that the Battle of Hogwarts was on 2 May. Unfortunately, Jo wasn’t clear about which day of the Battle was 2 May, since the start of hostilities was the evening of one day and the final confrontation was sunrise on the next. For now, [...]
December 24th, 2007 — What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
We here at the Lexicon wish you all happy holidays and safe travel! I want to wish a very happy (belated) birthday to Lisa, whose big day snuck by us on December 8. Sorry, Lisa…
We also wish a happy birthday (a little early) to Melissa over at Leaky, who turns…er, some youngish age on the [...]
December 20th, 2007 — What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
Over the past few months, we here at the Lexicon have been traumatized and disheartened. What has been the hardest are the personal attacks, blatant disinformation, and rushing to judgement that have been hurled our way. The staff of the Lexicon consists of some of the most selfless, dedicated, passionate people on the face of [...]
Online StoresDecember 15th, 2007 — What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
I have added a new section to the Lexicon: our Reader’s Guide for The Tales of Beedle the Bard. None of us has seen the actual book, of course, and we can’t write a full and detailed Reader’s Guide. However, the new owner of the book, Amazon.com, has been releasing fascinating information about the five [...]
November 10th, 2007 — What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
Jo updated the news on her site again yesterday about the situation with the book. Here’s part of what she said:
“I take no pleasure in the fact that publication has been prevented for the present. On the contrary, I feel massively disappointed that this matter had to come to court at all. Despite repeated requests, [...]
November 5th, 2007 — What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
Dear Friends,
I would like to thank each and every one of you for your support in recent days. Everyone here at the Lexicon, all volunteers, regrets the unpleasantness. We have always been interested in working with the publishers of the novels to satisfy their concerns, interests and needs and we certainly do not [...]
October 23rd, 2007 — What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
I’d just like to point out that I did ask what Dumbledore’s wand was made of…in July of 2004 in the open letter, which I know Jo read.
Oh well.
EDIT by Bel~: Oy, Steve! You must have been tinkering in the Timelines and got your dates mixed up? The Open Letter was actually [...]
October 8th, 2007 — What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
I read in the comments that someone has noticed the Deathly Hallows symbol that has begun to appear on various pages of the Lexicon. If you roll your mouse over it, you’ll see why it’s there. It means that the page has been updated through book seven and is now conisdered correct as of the [...]
August 13th, 2007 — What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon » What's New
It’s begun. The influx of emails pointing out pages which haven’t been updated yet. I promise you, we’ll get to them. You’d be amazed at how much needs to be edited at this point. Just as an example, I was reading the commentary on the first chapter of Philosopher’s Stone and discovered five or six [...]
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July 21st, 2007 — What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon
I have almost finished the book.
Here at Sectus in London the venue looked like a cross between the quietest slumber party in the world and a homeless shelter…with 300 people completely engrossed in Deathly Hallows all night through. As we counted down toward midnight, there were reports of “drive-by spoiling” in Piccadilly, so we stood [...]
July 16th, 2007 — What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon
I have updated the page about the soundtrack for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I love the new themes, particularly the Fireworks track, and not just because that scene is amazing in the film.
I added links to the official site as well as to Soundtrack.net’s excellent descriptions of each track. The full [...]
July 12th, 2007 — What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon
I’ll be participating in a huge Harry Potter event in the town of Monroe, Michigan, this coming Saturday. I’ll be speaking at noon at the library and later in the day participating in a Q&A session. There is a lot more going on with events to interest people of all ages. All events are open [...]
Online StoresJune 27th, 2007 — What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon
I received an email from the producer of the television special I filmed a few weeks ago in LA. He tells me that the show, entitled “The Hidden Secrets of Harry Potter,” will air on A&E on July 8 at 10 pm Eastern time. Featured will be John Granger, Janet Batchler, and me. The producer [...]
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June 27th, 2007 — What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon
We haven’t talked much about the Portkey lately, what with the lead up to the new film and book and game and soundtrack and who knows what all. However, the team has been working dilligently behind the scenes, adding more and more content. Here are a few cool new additions:
The book Fantastic Beasts and Where [...]
June 27th, 2007 — What's New from Steve @ The Harry Potter Lexicon
Lately I’ve receieved a few emails along these lines:
hey, the lexicon is a great site and i love reading almost everything on it. however a lot of the stuff is outdated - there are questions and debates on stuff that has been answered in later books, details tht have been mentioned in the order of [...]