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Here’s the Harry Potter clip from ‘The Today Show’

Yesterday on “The Today Show,” the cover art was revealed for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. 
The U.S. version of this seventh and last book in the Harry Potter series will have 784 pages and the British version will have 608 pages.
The final book will be released on July 21st, 2007.

The seventh Harry Potter book is perhaps the most eagerly anticipated Harry Potter book of them all because—gasp!—it will reportedly be the last book in the immensely popular Harry Potter book series. There are a myriad of rumors floating about the seventh Harry Potter book. Recently, JK Rowling, the hugely successful creator of the Harry [...]

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, published as Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in the United Kingdom, is the first book in the Harry Potter series, and most reader’s first brush with the magical and wondrous world of Harry Potter and his magical pals at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This first book [...]

In the last installment of the Harry Potter, the dark Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, it appears that our beloved Dumbledore died during a tragic battle scene. But did Dumbledore really die in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince? There is so much controversy swarming over this simple question that it becomes clear just [...]

The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is one of the aspects of the Harry Potter books that make the series so appealing to many of us. Who hasn’t read one or more of the Harry Potter books without daydream about what it would be like to attend this magical place with Harry, Ron Weasley [...]

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third book in the mega-popular Harry Potter series that was created by JK Rowling. The book’s first printing was in July 8, 1999. The film version of the book was released on May 31, 2004 in the United Kingdom, and shortly after in the United States. [...]

Harry Potter has become famous as the fastest-selling book in recent publishing history. It is reported that at one point Barnes and Noble was selling an average of 105 copies per second in the first few hours of the book’s release. The book was released on July 16, 2005, and it is the sixth volume [...]

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth book in the Harry Potter series that was created by JK Rowling. The book was first released on June 21, 2003 in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and the United States. It sold nearly seven million copies in the United Kingdom and the United [...]

So much has been written about the controversy surrounding the Harry Potter book series. Many fundamentalist Christian groups have complained that the Harry Potter books promote witchcraft and promote pagan ideals. Some Christian churches have even gone so far as holding Harry Potter book burnings. But does this mean that all Christians are against Harry [...]