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August 6, 2019
- Posted by: Professor Penelope Presto
- Categories: NEW!, Shop news
Shop Quizzic Alley online!
The Quizzic Alley online store is finally up-and-running which should be good news to all our fellow Potterheads who live interstate. Shop away like you’re facing almost certain death in the Triwizard Tournament tomorrow but please be patient: there are still some Peeves-like bugs and gremlins we have yet to address. So, if you come across any issues with the products, the process or the payment, please let us know via Muggle email at magic@quizzicalley.com. Remember – shipping is free for orders of $75 or more. Thanks for your help! The Quizzic Alley Team
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August 6, 2019
- Posted by: Professor Penelope Presto
- Category: Films and theatre
Super Harry Potter fans needed for video series
The producers of a brand new online video series are looking for passionate Potterheads to talk about what it means to be a Hufflepuff, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw or Slytherin. UK based Twenty Twenty will conduct in-depth interviews about each fan’s personal story. This from the production company’s website: “We want to know when you felt like you belonged to a particular house, how you felt when you went through the Sorting Ceremony and the tales of new friends you’ve made or new experiences you’ve had as a result.” So, if you will be in London this month, are passionate about Harry
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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
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June 24, 2019
- Posted by: Professor Penelope Presto
- Category: Books and reading
New HP books out on Thursday!
Way back in May we learned that JK Rowling would soon release four new books. The internet went a little crazy as some of us anticipated long queues outside the bookstore, maybe even camping overnight, to get our hands on a brand new HP book and devour every word in the first 24 hours. Well, the new books may not stand up to the hype of the release of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (20 years ago on 8th July) and they may be e-books instead of real, cozy-smelling paper versions, but the new release is still exciting
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June 13, 2019
- Posted by: Professor Penelope Presto
- Category: Books and reading
Exclusive patronus artworks auction for POA 20th anniversary
‘The Patronus turned. It was cantering back towards Harry across the still surface of the water. It wasn’t a horse. It wasn’t a unicorn, either. It was a stag. It was shining brightly as the moon above … it was coming back to him …’Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’. Monday 8th July 2019 marks 20 years since the first publication of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – the spellbinding third book in the phenomenally successful Harry Potter series. The book introduced readers to the notion of casting their Patronus – a protective spell that
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April 1, 2019
- Posted by: Professor Penelope Presto
- Category: Books and reading
First edition Philosopher’s Stone sells for $128,000
Mistakes pay! A rare copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone fetched a record price of AU$128,000 at a recent London auction, thanks largely to some Muggle-made mistakes. The unique copy is just one of 500 first editions printed with a number of errors, including the word “Philosopher’s” on the back cover without the second “o”. It is thought that 300 of the original first editions were sent to libraries, making pristine copies extremely rare. A similar first edition copy previously sold at auction in the US for AU$110,000. Do you have one of these rare first editions? Here’s what
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March 5, 2019
- Posted by: Professor Penelope Presto
- Category: Gaming
Wizards Unite: what do we know?
Some more tantalising tidbits about the impending Wizards Unite mobile game have been released in an interview with Warner Bros CEO Kevin Tsujihara. Rumours of a mobile Harry Potter game had been circulating for a while when the game’s official Facebook page launched in November 2017 with scant information. And then all went quiet until the first trailer was released a year later. What did it tell us apart from a vague release date of 2019? Well, it seems players will be ‘enlisted’ to help the Ministry of Magic protect the Statute of Secrecy and keep the wizarding world from being