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July 31, 2019
- Posted by: Professor Penelope Presto
- Categories: Events, NEW!
Happee Birthdae Harry!
Cake by craftmarmalade.blogspot.co.uk Break out the Butterbeer and the chocolate frogs. Hell, we should have us some vomit flavoured jelly beans too! Because the boy who lived, Harry James Potter, turns 39 today. He may be a totally fictional character but every year we celebrate his birthday and, thanks to the happy location of the International Dateline, we Australians get to mark this auspicious occasion before most of the rest of the world. The good people of New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji and Kiribati have no doubt already blown out the candles. Soon the rest of the world will wake up
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July 17, 2019
- Posted by: Michelle Brotohusodo
- Categories: Gaming, NEW!
SOS! The Ministry of Magic needs your help!
For Harry Potter fans around the world, the time has come. The Statute of Secrecy Taskforce has called on witches and wizards everywhere to save the wizarding world from ‘the Calamity’, by playing Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. The new game by Niantic (makers of Pokémon Go) officially launched on 21 June, but—thanks to a dose of Felix Felicis—has been available to Australians and New Zealanders since early May. As the beta testers, aka the guinea pigs of the game, we enthusiastically accepted the challenge, muddling our way along and providing invaluable feedback to the developers. After two months of solid
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July 6, 2019
- Posted by: Professor Penelope Presto
- Categories: Books and reading, NEW!
Me and JK
The book that sparked a friendship so FULL of potential! Sometime in 1999, probably around March and not even two years since Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was first published in the UK, Jo (we were on a first-name basis) was pretty happy. Although she was still relatively unknown in Australia, her book about a boy wizard had won a number of awards in the UK and been published in the US. She was well on her way to completing book number three. Half a world away, I was living in Brisbane and working for the Multiple Sclerosis Society, running