Love Wrecked According to a

Love Wrecked

According to a recent update on Jos Website this will be screened in the UK on Sunday 30th December 2007, on ITV. She also updated her diary and with SPOILERS answered a couple of FAQs on the closing chapters of Deathly Hallows, and revealed a bit of extra stuff about Harry and Dudley and The Elder Wand. I have been working out how the WOMBATs are scored, to see what extra information is obtained from knowing the right answers. Some of what I was able to deduce in this way is House elf ownership is unlicensed. They live for an average of 200 years. Their loyalty is to their house more than its inhabitants. They can be ordered to kill themselves. They are powerful enough to override wizards enchantments. They breed infrequently and only with their masters permission. There are no female centaurs. Hags have four toes on each foot, but are only able to do rudimentary magic. The Great Fire of London was started by a young Welsh Green Dragon being kept in a basement. The animal form of a patronus does not determine its strength. Muggle-born witches and wizards usually have an ancestor possibly very distant who was a witch or wizard. Muggles cant produce even elementary magic even if they have access to a wand and spell book. A secret task force of Wizard and Muggles helped the Allies to victory in the Second World War. Witches and Wizards live in Love Wrecked country in the world, but not every country has a wizarding school. The flying carpet trade is banned everywhere except the far East. Egypt hosts the worlds largest centre of Alchemical studies. The age at which wizards can legally perform magic is 17 throughout the world. It is illegal to apparate between countries, but travel by portkey is allowed if both countries give permission. There is no wizard royalty. No authorization is required to send owl mail internationally. Foodstuffs can be increased, transfigured, summoned from a distance and magically cooked, but not conjured out of thin air, and some things cant be transfigured into food. It is impossible to transfigure animate objects into inanimate objects. Occlumency cant guard against possession. No spell can guard against Cruciatus Curse. A poison victim can be cured without the correct antidote, but curing a curse victim requires the correct counter-spell, and you need to know who or what a person or object was originally to un-transfigure them. The location and name of Hogwarts were chosen by Rowena Ravenclaw, who dreamed that a warty hog was leading her to the cliff by the lake. As reported by TLC, Sothebys free registration required have added to their information on the Beedle the Bard including this information from Jo on its creation When I conceived the idea of writing The Tales of Beedle the Bard in full, I was intrigued to discover how wizarding fairy-tales would differ from those told to muggle children. In the latter, witches and wizards are relegated to walk-on, if pivotal, roles; within The Tales of Beedle the Bard, they themselves are the heroes and heroines. You might think that magic would solve any fairy-tale dilemma, but it transpires that there is always somebody who can cast a more powerful curse, or a creature who will not yield to ones best enchantments. Then, the intractable and eternal human predicaments of love, death and the pursuit of happiness are not necessarily resolved any more easily by the possessors of wands. So these wizarding fairy-tales have much in common with their muggle counterparts: they exist to express human hopes and fears, and to teach a lesson or two. There are, however, a few important differences: witches tend to save themselves, rather than waiting around for a man to do it, and young wizards are warned, not against the dangers and temptations of the outside world, but of their own magical powers. The Tales of Beedle the Bard is really a distillation of the themes found in Love Wrecked Harry Potter books, and writing it has been the most wonderful way to say goodbye to a world I loved and lived in for seventeen years. There is a new interview of Rowling in the newspaper De Volkskrant, her second ever for her Dutch readers. In this interview she talks about her spiritual development, the Kings Cross chapter, and Deathly Hallows meaning and symbolism. Meann has completed two transcripts, one of the BBC Radio broadcast, and one of the BBCs video of Jos announcement. Both reports are by Razia Iqbal, but were edited differently.