Let the magic begins ...

Harry Potter is NOT an ordinary boy. Orphaned at one, and dropped on his Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia's doorstep, was the only beginning of his extraordinary life. Harry grew up at his uncle's house, ignored and unwanted, thinking his parents has died in a car crash. He also believed that his extraordinary scar on his forehead, that looked like a lightening bolt, was a wound from the car crash. And then one day he gets a letter...

Uncle Vernon does not let him open it. More and more letters come. Soon the house is all boarded up with wood. Now way in or out. Finally they go to a cottage on a rock in the sea. There a giant comes, named Hagrid, and tells Harry the truth :

Harry is a wizard!
And his parents were a witch and wizard too!
They were murdered by the most evil wizard of all time, Lord Voldemort, or as most wizards say it, "You-Know-Who". Harry finds out that he will go to Hogwarts, a wizarding school.

There he is best friends with Ron and Hermione, rivals with Draco Malfoy and the gank. He learns all about magic, discovers his special powers and defeats Lord Voldemort again. He has so many adventures! He meets Tom Riddle, a young boy with huge ambitions, from Hogwarts' past. He saves two innocent lives from the evil Azkaban guards and from execution. Harry Potter is an extraordinary character, with many adventures ahead of him.

SPOILER: Facts and rumours on Book 5
(Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix):

• Harry will be 15 years old on his year 5 in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
• In book 5, we go into a whole new area, physically, an area you've never seen before, a magical world.
• Lily Potter's past background is going to be revealed. She is one of Voldemort's Death Eaters !
• You'll be seeing Mrs. [Arabella] Figg in book five, and you'll find out all about her. She is going to be the new DADA (Defense Against the Dart Arts) teacher in Hogwarts.
• Why do some wizards/witches become ghosts and others don't? You will find out much more about that in book five.
• The Dursleys are in the next book, and there's stuff coming with them that people might not expect, i.e. Dudley is a wizard ? Hmm...
• Ginny Weasley [little sister to Harry's best friend, Ron] will play more of a role in Book Five.
• In book five [Harry] has to examine exactly what death means, in even closer ways.
• JK Rowling says Book 5 "probably won't be as long as book four. It will be scary. Harry finds out a lot of things he hasn't stumbled across so far."
  Harry, Ron and Hermione are due to take their O.W.L.s!
• We will see some places that have only been mentioned in previous books. It will probably be the town where Lily and James lived, Godric's Hollow."
• Prof. Lupin and other favorite characters make a return! JKR says we'll see several previous characters!
• Hermione and Harry will be made a Prefect!
• Harry is going to be the new captain of Gryffindor's Quiddich team.
• Harry, Ron, Hermoine, and even Draco, are going to learn to be an Animagus!
• Harry and Draco will face each other as a rival in the Dueling Club.
• More romances : Harry & Cho, Draco & Ginny, Ron & Hermoine :)

News on Harry Potter 2nd Movie - Chamber of The Secrets
(due to release on November 16, 2002):

Plot Summary:
After a long summer with the horrid Dursleys, Harry Potter is thwarted in his attempts to hop the train to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to begin his second year. When his only transportation option is a magical flying car, it is just his luck to crash into a valuable (but clearly vexed) Whomping Willow. Still, all this seems like a day in the park compared to what happens that fall within the haunted halls of Hogwarts. Chilling, malevolent voices whisper from the walls only to Harry, and it seems certain that his classmate Draco Malfoy is out to get him. Soon it's not just Harry who is worried about survival, as dreadful things begin to happen at Hogwarts. The mysteriously gleaming, foot-high words on the wall proclaim, "The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened. Enemies of the Heir, Beware." But what exactly does it mean? Harry, Hermione, and Ron do everything that is wizardly possible--including risking their own lives--to solve this 50-year-old, seemingly deadly mystery.

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Characters ...

Daniel Radcliffe as "Harry Potter"
Rupert Grint as "Ron Weasley"
Emma Watson as "Hermione Granger"
Robbie Coltrane as "Rubeus Hagrid"

Rivals:

Tom Felton as "Draco Malfoy"
Joshua Herdman as "Gregory Goyle"
James Waylett as "Vincent Crabbe"

Teachers:

Richard Harris as "Albus Dumbledore" (Headmaster)
Dame Maggie Smith as "Prof. McGonagall" (Transfiguration)
Ian Hart as "Professor Quirrell" (DADA)
Alan Rickman as "Severus Snape" (Potions)
Warwick Davis as "Professor Flitwick"
Zoe Wannamaker as "Madame Hooch"

Gryffindor's Quiddich team:

Sean Biggerstaff as "Oliver Wood" (Captain)
James Phelps as "Fred Weasley" (Beater)
Oliver Phelps as "George Weasley" (Beater)
Emily Dale as "Katie Bell" (Chaser)
Leila Sutherland as "Alicia Spinnet" (Chaser)
Danielle Tabor as "Angelina Johnson" (Chaser)
Note : Harry Poter is the Gryffindor's Seeker

The Dursleys:

Richard Griffiths as "Vernon Dursley"
Fiona Shaw as "Petunia Dursley"
Harry Melling as "Dudley Dursley"

The Ghosts:

Terence Baylor as "The Bloody Barron"
John Cleese as "Nearly-Headless Nick"
Simon Fisher-Becker as "The Fat Friar"
Nina Young as "The Grey Lady"

also...

Chris Rankin - Percy Weasley
David Bradley - Argus Filch
Richard Bremmer - Lord Voldemort
Kathleen Cauley - Lavender Brown
Mike Edmonds - Gringotts Goblin
Alfie Enoch - Dean Thomas
Rusty Goffe - Gringotts Goblin
John Hurt - Mr. Ollivander
Matthew Lewis - Neville Longbottom
Rik Mayall - Peeves the Poltergeist
Devon Murray - Seamus Finnigan
Katharine Nicholson - Pansy Parkinson
Leslie Phillips - The Sorting Hat
Elizabeth Spriggs - The Fat Lady
Will Theakston - Marcus Flint
Julie Walters - Mrs. Weasley
Bonnie Wright - Ginny Weasley
Verne Troyer - Griphook

and...

Gloucester Cathedral - Hogwarts
Ook the White Owl - Hedwig
John Williams - composer
Chris Columbus - director
Joss Gower - stunts for Voldemort
Kheo Kypri - stunts for Voldemort
Gregory Powell - Stunt Coordinator
Paul Spateri - make up