FROM SPLASH PAGE: Last month, we told you about the upcoming comic book based on the life and career of "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling. Now we have the first, exclusive peek at the issue.

Published by Bluewater Productions, the unauthorized biography is part of their "Female Force" line of comics, and promises to chronicle the "rags to riches story of a woman receiving government financial assistance through her ascendancy in becoming one of the world’s most recognizable writers."

Bluewater has provided Splash Page readers with an exclusive preview of "Female Force: J.K. rowling," which hits shelves in December in a standard, 23-page comic and a "double-sized collector’s edition." The comic is written by Adam Gragg with interior art by Matthew Filer (“Masque of the Dragons”) and cover art by Joshua Labello.

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The first American hardcover edition of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” spanned 652 pages. Even at over two hours and thirty minutes, the film version couldn’t stuff in every battle, breath and broomstick. Director David Yates had to make a number of tough calls, including losing an important fight in the Second Wizarding War and changing J.K. Rowling’s original ending, which recounted Dumbledore’s funeral. Read more...

"Beedle the Bard" came to the Big Apple Wednesday (December 3) -- J.K. Rowling's U.S. editor Arthur A. Levine put his personal, original, handwritten and illustrated-by-the-author copy on display at the New York Public Library, a day before the mass-production version hits stores. The unveiling, Levine told MTV News, was "dramatic" and not without plenty of security measures.

"That's my personal copy," he said. "There's a protective case and a guard standing next to it. But the library has many extremely valuable books and pieces of art, so they're experienced at these things. But I have to trust in the loyalty of the fans and the security of the New York Public Library [that it doesn't get stolen or defaced]." Read more...

Time to get out your quills -- J.K. Rowling wants to see if her readers can write. The Harry Potter author is holding an essay contest for her younger fans -- ages 8 through 17 -- in which the winners would be invited to join her for tea.

There are five slots for American winners (and their chaperones) for the all-expense paid trip to Edinburgh, Scotland, in which the essay writers would get to attend the event at the National Library of Scotland on December 4. Rowling would read from "The Tales of Beedle the Bard," which will be published that day, and then take part in a Q&A session with her first editor, Barry Cunningham. A total of 250 children and teens would be present.

So how do you get to be one of the U.S. five? Read more...

J.K. Rowling might not have exactly have a new book out this year -- do you count "Beedle the Bard"? -- but for her boy Harry's 10-year "birthday," she's got the next best thing. Leaky Cauldron webmistress Melissa Anelli interviewed the author -- and got Rowling to write the intro -- for her upcoming book, due out November 4, called “Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon.”

"It was never a selling point to any publisher, 'Hey, I know J.K. Rowling,' you know? It was never like that," Anelli said. "I was actually planning on writing it without her [participation]. It's like when you watch the show 'The West Wing': yes, the president is very important, but it's more about the staff. This is more about the people, the companies, the entities that brought Harry Potter into fruition. And using that analogy, having the president there adds so much, and adds so much interest, but I was counting on not having her." Read more...

As Cornelius Fudge could tell you, there’s nothing like a good witness in the “Harry Potter” world. Steve Vander Ark, the mousy haired librarian who found himself this year in the middle of a copywrite battle between a small Michigan publishing firm and the most famous author in the world, turned out in the end to be nothing like a good witness.

But last week’s court ruling in favor of J.K. Rowling and Warner Brothers, which blocked Vander Ark and RDR books from publishing their “The Harry Potter Lexicon,” a comprehensive reference tome of all things wizarding and magical, will not be the famous fan’s last stand according to the “Detroit Free Press,” who reported yesterday (September 15) that lawyers for the defense are expected this week to file a legal appeal.

The issue, theoretically, could go all the way to the Supreme Court, and serve as a case study for fair use, a somewhat complicated law meant to protect creative artists from having their work unfairly purloined. Read more...

J.K. Rowling announced on Thursday (July 31) that "Tales of Beedle the Bard," her brief fictional stories about wizarding within her longer, fictional stories about wizarding, would finally go on sale this Christmas. Here at MTV there was, of course, much rejoicing at this news.

It also got us thinking. Turns out a lot of us here are suckers for the kind of meta-fiction "Tales of Beedle the Bard" represents, what with it being a pretend work getting a real release. But why stop there? We came up with a list of the top five fictional books we'd like to really read next.

"Old Custer" by Eli Cash ( "The Royal Tenenbaums" )

Everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this revolutionary book presupposes is ... maybe he didn't? Brilliant. And, besides, book openings don't get better than this: "The crickets and the rust-beetles scuttled among the nettles of the sage thicket. 'Vámonos, amigos,' he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintcraw over the loose weave of the saddlecock. And they rode on in the friscalating dusklight."
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Enough teaser posters and title treatments, here is your first look at an actual trailer -- and our shot by shot analysis -- for the sixth "Harry Potter" film! I don't care if you're a muggle or a house elf, this is the one to watch. November 21st can't come soon enough, can it?!?

So what did you think? Are you as excited as ever for the sixth Potter flick? What can't you wait to see brought to the big screen this time?

Seven is the most powerfully magical number in the "Harry Potter" universe, the number of books in the series, the number of divisions Voldemort intends to make of his soul, the number of Weasley children, etc.

But it won't be the number of movies. Already we've heard word that Warner Brothers plans to split the last book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" into two films. (Help us with where to break that film here.)

Could the powers that be, though, actually want a ninth?

That's the word from the "Sunday Mirror," which ran an item last week stating that J.K. Rowling had written a brand new Potter story that would be turned into a mini-movie starring the films' principal cast, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson.

The article claimed that the movie would be shown as part of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the new themed land at Universal Studios in Orlando.

But is it true? To put it mildly, fans at The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet have almost universally reacted with incredulity. It can't be legit, can it? Read more...

When Warwick Davis read "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" it must have been something very much like "losing a Knut and finding a Galleon." Because while he might have been initially disappointed that Harry wasn’t going to be at Hogwarts for his seventh year – denying Charms Professor Filius Flitwick of much action (until the very end that is) –he’s more certain than ever that all his action will finally make it into the adaptation, thanks to a recent decision to split the seventh novel into two feature length films.

"I think that’s a good idea because when you try and squeeze these quite lengthy novels into a two-hour movie, a two-and a half hour film there is gonna be stuff that’s left out," Davis enthused. "There’s so much in the last book, I think it’ll make two really good films. It’s worthy of that." Read more...