Real-life Harry Potter reveals why sharing the wizard’s name has made his life a misery

www.dailymail.co.uk: The similarities are there – right down to a scar on the forehead. But the biggest thing they share are eleven letters spelling out two short names. Harry Potter.

Mr Potter has endured taunts from the public, police, phone companies and even a football referee – all because he shares a name with arguably the world’s best known wizard.

Mr Potter, who was born in 1989, had eight peaceful years of being a schoolboy with a fairly ordinary name before JK Rowling released a book entitled Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, and everything changed.
He said: ‘No one ever believes that I’m telling the truth about my name. I had to show my girlfriend my passport, my bank card, and my driving licence to convince her that I wasn’t lying.
‘Even getting my season ticket for Portsmouth FC was a bit of a pain – I’m a massive football fan, but I had problems at the ticket office. ‘First they didn’t believe that my name was genuine, and when I convinced them, they thought it was hilarious. It’s never-ending.

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Oh boy – this really sounds not funny and also not hilarious. What do you think – do you want to life with such a well known name?

‘Harry Potter’ & the green machine

www.boston.com: ‘Harry Potter: The Exhibition’ opens tomorrow at the Museum of Science and runs through Feb. 21. It transmutes marketing into entertainment. The show is a giant ad – a slick, skillful, and enjoyable ad – for the “Potter’’ movies. The books? Forget about the books. The books don’t generate income for the corporate parent of Warner Bros.

More than 200 items from the movies are on display. Viewers get to see Harry’s glasses; his Nimbus 2000 broomstick; the Sorcerer’s Stone; framed pages of The Daily Prophet and many wands.

In a league of its own is professor Umbridge’s office. The decor – can pink be Brutalist? – is like a fever dream shared by Margaret Thatcher and Reese Witherspoon in ‘Legally Blonde’. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are all over the show. But lesser (and darker) lights like the Malfoys, the Dementors, professor Lockhart, and Umbridge are here, too.

The “Potter’’ robes and gowns are no less worthy of attention. The designs are often ingenious. And that’s not even factoring in the associative frisson involved in seeing, say, Severus Snape’s robes up close. Who knew that purple could ever look so grim?

Of course the color that matters here isn’t purple but green. The exhibition concludes with a large commercial space. Postcards go for 69 cents each – four for $2. The only thing that sets the store apart from the show is its bright lighting. The galleries are a very different matter. Their windowless, black-box environment is like the interior of a casino. ‘Harry Potter: The Exhibition’ would fit right in as an attraction at Foxwoods or Mohegan Sun.

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This sounds really interesting and I really want to visit this exhibition – what about you?

‘Deathly Hallows Wedding Scene Spoilers Online

www.harrypotterspage.com: A report on the filming of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows wedding scene is now online. The report contains many spoilers. Although you may have read the book, the report still may contain some information that can possibly spoil you.

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I love those spoilers … it’s so exciting to hear news about the last movie(s). What do you think about the Wedding Scene news?