About Harry Potter

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[yoshiemaster]

harry potter = gay
hotter harry potter = gayer

[Parinaz_M]

lol @ yoshi

i never liked Harry Potter, and never will

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hot comments..how about that !!!

[Parinaz_M]

taze man kheyli moadabane nazaramo goftam

[persian_king]

hehehe maroof shodan in chizha ro ham dare bacheye 14 saleh out of nowhere just picked up by some directors now becomes role model what a pitty!!

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[purrsian_cat]

eeeuuwww thats the most gross pic i have ever seen!!
harry potter naked ??? ah ah khejalat bekesh. put your clothes back ON.

what is this worl coming to?

Next thing...Cinderella will be naked, or Aladin

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Potter film breaks record in US
The new Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, has taken a record-breaking $12m (£6m) at midnight screenings in the US.

The figure is the most made at the box office for a Wednesday opening midnight run, according to Daily Variety.

The previous record-holder was The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which returned around $8m (£3.9m) in midnight ticket sales in 2003.

Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix opens in the UK on Thursday.

Its early takings were double that of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the previous film in the series, which took $6m (£2.9m) at US midnight screenings in 2005.

'Unique challenges'

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe told US TV show Larry King Live that acting in the new movie was "some of the hardest stuff I've had to do to date".

"Each film presents its own very unique challenges so it's sort of like playing a different part every time you come back and do it," he said.


HOW HARRY POTTER HAS AGED
Daniel Radcliffe was chosen to play Harry Potter in The Philosopher’s Stone when he was just 10 years old.
By the time the Chamber of Secrets was released, Radcliffe, 13, had grown used to the limelight.
Radcliffe was 15 when The Prisoner of Azkaban came out. Questions were asked about whether he was too old.
Following the Goblet of Fire, Radcliffe, then 16, signed up to play Potter in the remaining three films.
Radcliffe, who next appears in The Order of the Phoenix, is now 17 and has branched out into theatre.
BACKNEXT1 of 5He added he still had a "long way to go and to develop" as an actor and said: "Hopefully you'll see more of that over the next two films."

The actor said it was not until the third Harry Potter film, the Prisoner of Azkaban, that he knew that acting was something he would "love to do in the long term".

"Before that I was just a kid having fun on a film set, having the time of my life, but not really taking it as seriously as I do now, obviously."

The actor turns 18 on July 23 but he denied he is now too old to play Harry.

"Actors play younger and older than their age all the time so I don't think it should make too much of a difference," he said.

Asked about Harry's first kiss in the new movie, he said: "It's a really sweet, tender moment in the film but it wasn't as big a deal as perhaps everybody thought it might be."

He praised Harry Potter author JK Rowling's writing as "just great, purely fantastic story telling".

"I think the reason the films have been so successful is that we're fortunate to have some of the best source material around," he said.

"What Jo's done with these books is quite incredible, I think," added Radcliffe.

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Potter fans in Iran join global frenzy over wizard's fate

TEHRAN (AFP) - Harry Potter fans in Iran will have to wait weeks for a Farsi translation of the series finale, but an elite group of English-speaking readers in the Islamic republic still joined the worldwide frenzy over the teenage wizard's fate early on Saturday.

"I'm so excited I'm shivering in this heat. I don't want Harry to die," said 14-year-old Reza as he queued outside Tehran's Bayan Salis bookshop for "Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows" before it went on sale worldwide at 2301 GMT on Friday.

He was joined by around 100 other fans who had placed their orders two months ago with the shop which specialises in foreign publications as well as teaching English.

"We have had hundreds of orders, but we have stocked up on extra copies as it is the climax of a phenomenal story," Bayan Salis owner Hamid Reza Talakoob told AFP.

London-raised Reza has converted half of his classmates to the Harry Potter phenomenon. When some in the queue mentioned spoilers about the plot posted on the Internet he put his fingers in his ears and hummed loudly.

"I am angry at the plot leaks. I have not looked at them. What is the point of reading if the puzzle is all out?" said 23-year-old Samira Mohammadi, a student of English literature.

Very few of Iran's 70-million-strong population can read English and the book's 340,000-rial (36.5-dollar) price tag also means it is unaffordable for many.

All six previous volumes of the Potter saga were translated into Farsi, winning over hundreds of thousands of readers and marking up record sales in Iran's sluggish book market where sales of 5,000 copies can put a smile on a publisher's face.

"It sells so well. We ran out of a first print in less than a week," Tehran bookseller Mehran Fayyaz said of the previous volume, adding that he expected the finale's sales to top 200,000.

"People have been pestering us for days asking when the translation will come out," he said. The answer is that impatient readers have to wait for at least for a month before a good Farsi version appears.

Iran is not a member of the Universal Copyright Convention, which gives publishers and translators a free hand with foreign books without having to respect copyright and pay royalties.

For example, in 2003 several different translations appeared simultaneously in bookshops of the fifth volume, "Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix."

"It is a sure ticket for a publisher, and it is a safe teenage escapist story which hardly crosses any red lines in our culture," said one publisher who asked not to be identified.

"I know a publisher who has commissioned a team of translators to finish it in a matter of days in order to get it on the market as fast as possible," he added.

Iran screens all publications, censoring and banning books deemed insulting to Islam and revolutionary values. Authors sometimes have to wait for months before being granted permits for new titles.

Although witchcraft is forbidden in Islam, British author J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter has made it through Iran's censorship process and the cinema adaptations of the series have also been shown on state television.

Harry Potter even enjoys a faithful fan base among thirty-something Iranians, many of them also diehard fans of Tintin, Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi's comic book series.

"Harry Potter is the new Tintin. It takes me back to my childhood and is just as fun," said 36-year-old Niki Kiani.

But 21-year-old student Navid Sharif says he has grown out of Harry Potter as he thumbs through an award-winning Iranian title, "Symphony of the Dead," in an uptown bookshop.

"I loved Potters when I was in high school but it has to end somewhere. For some of us it is the end of an era," he said.