.@jk_rowling, look familiar? Not Hogwarts but beautiful St Andrews! Thanks to grad student Claire for the grand tour pic.twitter.com/cuOxYry7yt

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 13, 2013

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J.K. Rowling and Warner Brothers are continuing the relationship that made them billions with the Harry Potter series, teaming up for a new franchise based off one of Harry's textbooks, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander. According to Variety, Rowling says that the story is not a prequel or… Discuss… 9/12/13 11:40am 9/12/13 11:40am

J.K. Rowling is no stranger to philanthropy. As of 2012, the Harry Potter author had reportedly donated upwards of $160 million to various charity organizations. Her charitable spirit has continued into 2013 with Rowling announcing this Wednesday that all royalties from “The Cuckoo’s Calling," her crime novel… Read… 7/31/13 7:00pm 7/31/13 7:00pm

J.K. Rowling was working some Beautiful Mind level realness when she mapped out the plot for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Put this handwritten chart in front of a muggle and they'll feel like they were hit with a Confundus charm. Read… 5/14/13 6:00pm 5/14/13 6:00pm

I think we'd all like to believe that, sitting next to a reading lamp and swaddled in his Holy Snuggie somewhere deep inside the Vatican's intestinal labyrinths, Pope Benedict Palpatine Vader XVI read The Casual Vacancy with a mounting sense of disappointment that Harry Potter didn't make at least a cameo appearance.… Read… 11/04/12 6:01pm 11/04/12 6:01pm

An employee looks at a copy of the "The Casual Vacancy" by author J.K. Rowling at a book store in London, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. British bookshops are opening their doors early as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling launches her long anticipated first book for adults. Discuss… 9/27/12 9:45pm 9/27/12 9:45pm

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have hired my mom's pretend (but serious pretend) boyfriend Jamie Oliver to come to their Surrey estate to cook them Christmas dinner. Pitt and Oliver have been buddies since the Jennifer Aniston days. The British chef has tried to give him cooking lessons before, but he's "useless in the… Read… 9/26/12 9:00am 9/26/12 9:00am

The Guardian recently interviewed inventor of the modern child's imagination J.K. Rowling ahead of the September 27th release of her not-Harry Potter book called The Casual Vacancy. Rowling seems, on the whole, pretty nervous about this latest endeavor, because the book means a lot to her, since it writing it offered a … Read… 9/24/12 10:25am 9/24/12 10:25am

Any time a beloved book series becomes a movie (or eight), fans trip over themselves to point out how the film version fails to capture the detail and magic of the books. With nothing is this more true than with Harry Potter and, to be fair, fans have a point. Like you know how [SPOILER ALERT. THIS IS A SPOILER ALERT.… Read… 7/10/12 7:10pm 7/10/12 7:10pm

Remember when you got that pet fox after seeing The Fox and the Hound and loved it so much until it made a habit of pooping in your shoes and sitting on your chest like an incubus while you slept, weighing a death strike at your vulnerable throat against the prospect of more dry cat food, and the day finally came when… Read… 5/20/12 12:00pm 5/20/12 12:00pm

The next J.K. Rowling has been discovered and she's not you with your fifteen hundred-page manuscript about a cat named Larry Cotter who finds out that he, a seemingly ordinary house cat, can play piano and so joins a community of feline jazz musicians that play in speakeasies throughout prohibition-era America — she's … Read… 5/06/12 1:00pm 5/06/12 1:00pm

If you've been on edge waiting for the title of J.K. Rowling's new adult novel (not like adult adult, but, like, do your taxes adult) then today is your day. The author has announced that her new book will be called The Casual Vacancy and "will be set in an English town called Pagford where things are not as idyllic as… Read… 4/12/12 7:45pm 4/12/12 7:45pm

Just when you thought J.K. Rowling couldn't be any more magical, she goes and gets booted from the Forbes list of the World's Billionaires after giving away a huge sum of her earnings to charity. Her charitable donations, coupled with Britain's high tax rates, have cost the author an estimated $160 million (does anyone … Read… 3/12/12 5:40pm 3/12/12 5:40pm

J.K. Rowling has signed a deal with publishing house Little, Brown Book Group and will soon be releasing a new novel, this time for adults. Unfortunately for all the smut-fic lovers out there, the Boy Who Lived will not be making any grown-up cameos. Read… 2/23/12 6:45pm 2/23/12 6:45pm

It's almost impossible to pick the greatest bits of wrongness in last night's Lifetime Original movie about the life of Harry Potter's creator... but we'll try. Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story was a casserole of crap British accents and sentimentality, covered with cheese. Read… 7/19/11 4:10pm 7/19/11 4:10pm

Harry Potter premiered for the very last time yesterday in London's Leicester Square. Before the cast and creators went inside to watch the series' final installment, they gathered outside to say a few words to each other. Here's Emma Watson's emotional turn, in which she tells Daniel Radcliffe "You were and are the… Read… 7/08/11 5:45pm 7/08/11 5:45pm

Today in Tweet Beat, James Franco is trying to make everyone fall in love with him with this picture. Plus, Lily Allen gets upset about Kanye's abortion comment. Discuss… 2/24/11 7:30pm 2/24/11 7:30pm

• Britney's new single drops next week!
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• Unsolicited Uterus Update: Real Housewives Of Atlanta star Kim Zolciak is carrying a fetus.
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• During a Sirius Radio interview, CNN's Rick Sanchez called Jon Stewart a "bigot", implied the media is controlled by Jews, and said network bosses passed him over for a promotion because he's Cuban-American. CNN responded by firing him.
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• A UK tabloid called News of the World is currently running terrifying pictures they claim are of Lindsay Lohan at a Hollywood party in 2007, shooting heroin in several images and kissing Paris Hilton in others.
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J.K. Rowling has given the University of Edinburgh $15.4 million to establish a center to research multiple sclerosis and other degenerative neurological conditions, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Rowling's mother died from complications related to MS in 1990. Discuss… 8/31/10 11:47am 8/31/10 11:47am