The Order of the Phoenix News Network: March 2010

Site updates are produced, new features added!

Throughout today, as visitors, both new and old, might have noticed, we have been making serious improvements in our site today. Today, to help manage limited space, we have been able to create several different pages on our site, which greatly increases the interactiveness of the site in general.
The current pages that are linked to on our main page are:

*LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4,
*Harry Potter movie trailer gallery,
*And an updated site FAQ page!

However, over the next week or so, we will be casually updating the
Harry Potter movie trailer page, placing one trailer at a time every 1 to 2 days.
More pages may be released over the coming month, but none are confirmed to be
under production as of now.
as of now.

Bloomsbury to re-release HP books in UK

It has been revealed by Bloomsbury, producer of all seven HP books in the UK, that it is they're
intent to re-release all seven of the original Harry Potter books in the UK to:
"Appeal to the next generation of readers." This might seem rather odd, as Bloomsbury only finished
producing the original HP books less then three years ago.

Why the sudden urge to re-release the books? Mightn't it be a tad early for re-release?

All seven of the books will be re-released in the UK in a few months.

LEGO HP UK gameplay trailer now on site!

As stated in the comments page by our staff, the inatial transfer of video to site took longer then expected, but is now avalable for viewing on our site.

However, it is NOT located on the main site. It, along with some of are other LEGO Harry Potter
features, are being moved to a newly created part of the site.

If you'll look in the top left part of the main site, there is an FAQ link.
Underneth this is a LEGO Harry Potter page, still being filled.
Creating site links to other parts of our network is much easier to do then stuffing all of the features
on the main site. It also allows us to expand our features greatly, allowing much more features to be admitted unto our network.

Stay tuned in the following week for news of possible additional pages!

New LEGO Harry Potter video just released!

Today, a UK branch of Warner Bros released an all-new video for the upcoming HP video game produced by the LEGO company:
"LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4".

The video was released in France, but is avalable on youtube for viewing.

The video shows a cutscene in one of the levels, and a 30 second clip of the gameplay in the level.

The video itself will be on our site soon, but for those wanting to see it straight away, double-click on the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g7BJ4n5PD0 .

The clip is expected to be placed on our site within a few hours.
Double-click on the comments page under this post and look for notifications from our staff about the video.

New interactive LEGO HP feature now on our main site!

Thanks to WB's LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4 site, a new interactive LEGO HP feature has been added to our site. It shows a interactive owl, which flaps its wings and moves its head, and to the left side of the owl, there are links to certain parts of the LEGO HP Years 1-4 offical website, and to the right is a rss feed that can be viewed, which shows posts made from the creators of the game.

Earlier today, the Order of the Phoenix updates its FAQ page!
This allows new readers to understand the following things
about our site:

*Information about the site and a brief history of the site.

*Explaning the process of subscribing to the site's feed.

And more!

Thanks to LEGO and Warner Bros, we now have a brand new trailer of the game now on our site.

Unfortunetly, we had to get rid of the HP theme park preview in order
to fit the LEGO HP trailer on our cramped site.

This trailer, like the two proceeding it, focuses on a specific HP book.
The game itself contains the first four books in the series.

This newest trailer focuses exclusively on book/movie three in the saga.

New HP theme park preview now on site!

To celebrate the newly announced release date of the Harry Potter theme park,
we have just placed a newly discovered preview of the park, complete with
interviews with some of the HP film actors, and CGI footage, and more!

The video can be found on our site, underneth the posts.

HP theme park release date just announced!

Thanks to Universal Orlando, we now have a release date for the HP theme park!

According to Universal, the park will be opened to the public on June 18th!

So, the park will be open to summer visitors visiting Universal's Orlando park this summer.

So if any viewers wis to pre-order passes to Universal Orlando in order to visit the HP section,
tickets are avalable for pre-order through Universal's website at:
(http://www.universalorlando.com/) .

LEGO HP game release date now announced!

The release date for the upcoming LEGO Harry Potter
video game has been released by gamestop,
a public company that is known for trading and selling
used video games.

According to their website, (http://www.gamestop.com/), the
game will be released in the USA on May 3rd.

Today, scholastic, publisher of all seven HP novels in the US,

premired a new advertisment for the HP books.

The ad itself is just over 30 seconds long, and is avalable on this site,

thanks to youtube, for anyone to watch.

The ad itself, (100% CGI,) is pretty cool, and appealing to fans,

and even makes non-readers of the HP books want to join the fun.

Thanks to our staff, this site can now be found in searches by: Yahoo! Bing, Google Blog Search, and more!

This may not be of much use to our current readers, but currently, it's a major improvement.

However, as we just added our name to Bing's search engine, it may not be searchable for about 24 hours.

Notice to Site Viewers

To our site viewers, while updating our site, we have noticed that there has been some problems for some reaching our site.

If you are using anti-virius software or some other security softwares, you may have encountered this error too.

Before entering this site, some viewers may see a pop-up from the computor's security system saying something like: "Are you sure you want to proceed?" or something similar.

The problem is that, via feedburner, we have added a device to be able to count how many computors and networks visit our site. This feature causes a problem for those with enhanced security software because most security softwares are programmed to protect its user from software like our
Hit Counter we have installed on our site, thanks to FeedBurner.

This error does not appear to have any impact to our feed or our feed viewers and subscribers.

-Order of the Phoenix staff.

Ack! Feed errors occur!

To the people subscribed to us via feed, the feed for this site may be unavalable for the next hour or so,
because of errors that have been occuring when people try to reach our feed through our site.

This Problem should be fixed by 4:00 Eastern Standard Time,
sorry to everyone who has been affected by this problem.

Sincerely, Order of the Phoenix network staff.

Unexpected blaze damages HP7 film set during filming.

Recently, during filming of the final two part HP film, it was reported that a fire broke out in the midst of filming a battle scene. Luckily, no one was injured by the fire. Unfortunately, the estimated damage equaled
about £100,000. It was said that some parts of their Hogwarts castle set was damaged.

WB has so far refused to comment on what exact parts were damaged by the fire, or if they intend to
make the proper repairs so they can continue filming.

Hopefully, they have filmed most of what needed filming with that set, otherwise it is possible that the
second part of the film will be postponed until filming and other neccesities are completed.

After all, anything's possible.

New LEGO Harry Potter video now on site!

Thanks to mugglenet.com, we now have a new LEGO Harry Potter video!

Long story short, Warner Bros told mugglenet.com that they could post this new video of the game on
YouTube, which they did. So now, thanks to YouTube, the video has been uploaded onto this site,
and is fully functional.

The video has been confirmed to be the first cutscene in the game, complete and unedited.

And since this video has been confirmed as offical and approved by Warner Bros,
the chances of it being removed are very, very slim.

Enjoy!

-Order of the Phoenix Staff.

If there are any concernes of complants concerning the video or any other site feature,
please leave a comment in the comments tab under a new post, and your complant or
concern will be adressed as swiftly as possible.

ABC to show HP films over weekend

This weekend, It has been announced that ABC will be featuring the first five of the HP films on their
basic cable station. Here is the upcoming schedule for them.

Friday, March 19th

(7:30 - 11:00 PM ET/PT) "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"

Saturday, March 20th

(9:00 AM - 12:30 PM ET/PT) "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"

(12:30 - 4:30 PM ET/PT) "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"

(4:30 - 7:30 PM ET/PT) "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"

(7:30 - 11:00 PM ET/PT) "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

Sunday, March 21st

(9:30 AM - 1:30 PM ET/PT) "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"

(1:30 - 4:30 PM ET/PT) "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"

(4:30 - 8:00 PM ET/PT) "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

(8:00 - 11:00 PM ET/PT) "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" *Basic Cable Premiere!

*Along with the premire of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", there will be an exclusive sneek peek of the upcoming two part film,
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows". Please note, however, that not all network providers may provide ABC as a channel.
For more information on ABC programming, please visit: http://www.abc.com/ .

New HP theme park preview now avalable for viewing

Earlier, a video sneek peek of the HP theme park attraction in Universal Orlando was revealed,
as well as actual footage of the almost-completed park.

A msnbc news reporter went down to the theme park and was allowed to film a quick two minute peice
on the theme park. In it, he went into some detail about what products stores in the HP park will be selling,
where some of the stores were located in the park, and even showed the Hogwarts school train.
All of the shown displays closely resembled their discription in the books & films.

Hopefully the rest of the HP park will be as true to the books & films as can be.

Thanks to both msmbc for the video and Mugglenet.com for first announcing it!

New interview with Jason Issacs now online

Thanks to fellow HP fan website snitchseeker.com, now avalable is a new interview with HP movie co-star
Jason Issacs, who is fairly well known by HP fans for his role as Lucious Malfoy in several of the HP films.

The interview was originally conducted by BBC radio, a UK radio station, and in this interview, Issacs discusses his upcoming role in the final two films, and the modifications made to his character.

Warning! Interview spoils certain parts of the final film, so don't listen to it if you don't want to be spoiled!

-Order of the Phoenix staff.

Scholastic releases new video of HP theme park

While it may not be on the same scale as the previous offical videos of the HP theme park,
this newest CG video does display more info about some of the shops inside the park.
Unfortunetly, with it only being about 45 seconds in length, it didn't have enough time to focus on
some of the other aspects of the HP park.

But either way, the video is avalable for viewing via link.
Just double-click the following link to watch the video.
(The video is in the right corner of the site.)
http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/multimedia/?bcpid=65948762001&bctid=67488998001

Daniel Radcliffe talks about final HP movie

"It was really hard," Radcliffe told MTV News.
"It was just one of those scenes where I think because I put a lot of pressure on myself to get it right beforehand, I wasn't able to relax and enjoy myself as I might have done otherwise. I was slightly annoyed by that."

Around that same time, as viewers may or may not recall, Radcliffe confirmed his involvement in the organization known as the Trevor Project, designed to be a helpful resource toward gay and lesbian people.

The Trevor Project can be found online at their site,
http://www.thetrevorproject.org/ .

Feed link repaired, FAQ page again features functional feed link

New blog visitors can once again have the luxury of having a direct feed link featured on the FAQ page,
which can be located on the left corner of the main page.

We are sorry for the error, which, we hope, will not happen again.

If viewers notice any other site error, please report it in the comments page under a new post,
otherwise, it may not be discovered or fixed immediately.

-Order of the Phoenix Network staff.

Feedburner errors occur, users may have been affected

As of late, users may have noticed that the blog feed link via FAQ page has been malfunctioning.
This may be because of the blog's name change some time ago, and so the link that was directed at our feed, which at that time was simply named: "The Order of the Phoenix." now that the feed has renamed, the faulty link presents a small problem.

We will release a post when that link once again becomes accsessible.

Order of the Phoenix Network gains new sponsor

Over the last few weeks, the Order of the Phoenix Network has been having great difficulty continuing one of our main goals, to make the world a better place.

Granted, this is not an easy task to set about doing, but Blogger, FeedBurner, and most importantly, our readers, have all been very supportive of the efforts.

In the past, this network has sponsored several legit organizations, such as the
Peace & Human Rights Campaign, Autism Speaks, and more.

Now, we are happy to announce our affiliation with the Focus Alternative Learning Center, located in Connecticut. The goal of the organization is to increase awareness of Autism, and educate teachers, police, firefighters, and other groups on understanding individuals, both young and old, who have Autism.

Order of the Phoenix Network to celebrate 1st birthday

This May, the Order of the Phoenix Network will celebrate its first complete year online. We opened our doors May 9th 2009, and on that day this year we will celebrate by partly redesigning our website.
The staff of the Order of the Phoenix are currently refurring to the project as "Order of the Phoenix Network 2.0", because of the many changes we will be making. Not all of the changes have been decided as of now.
However, the following changes and errors in the original version of our site are being corrected, such as: More additions to the Language select feature, an updated FAQ page, A more steady cycle of rotating features,
slight appearance changes to the site, more interactive additions,
and more!

More information on version 2.0 to come in the coming weeks.

LEGO HP Years 1-4 gameplay trailer now on site

Thanks to youtube, The Order of the Phoenix now has a copy of the newest gameplay trailer of "LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4".

It reveals some of the gameplay in the game, wandwork,
and its two player capibilities. The game looks promising, and, as long as WB and LEGO don't pre-release every video in the game, it should be very fun to play, but for now, I'll let fans make their own opinion on the trailer.

It will be avalible on the main page for some time, so enjoy!

-Order of the Phoenix Network staff.

JK Rowling updates her Twitter account

At long last, JK Rowling, after creating a Twitter account this past year, had not, up until now, said very much on the social network for the past several months. Today however, she said this: "I am told that people have been twittering on my behalf, so I thought a brief visit was in order just to prevent any more confusion!". And around that same time, she also said:
However, I should flag up now that although I could twitter endlessly,
I’m afraid you won’t be hearing from me very often, as pen and paper
is my priority at the moment." Obviously she is hard at work on something.
The question remains: What?

This is the newest news on the HP author.

The Order of the Phoenix Network (OOTPN) will release futher news
on her "Pen and Paper" project when news becomes avalable.

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