Walters, Julie -
Wanamaker, Zoë -
Waters, Galadriel -
Watson, Emma -
Waylett, Jamie -
Whitbread Prize -
Whited, Lana -
Williams, Mark -
Wimbourne Minster -
Winterbourne -
Witching Hour, The -
Wright, Bonnie -
Wright, Cliff -
Wye River
Walters, Julie
Born in 1950 in
Birmingham,
England,
Walters was cast in the role of
Molly Weasley in the
Harry Potter films. Further
details about her life and career can be found at:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0910278/
Wanamaker, Zoë
Born in May 1949 in New York, Zoë Wanamaker was cast as
Madam Hooch in the
Harry Potter films.
Further information can be found at:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0910738/
Waters, Galadriel
Author of
The Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter
(co-authored with Astre Mithrandir) (Wizarding World Press, 2003).
Waters and Mithrandir have also written
New Clues to Harry Potter Book 5:
Hints from the Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter
(Wizarding World Press, 2003),
Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries
of Harry Potter: Analysis of Book 5
(Wizarding World Press, 2005).
and
Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries
of Harry Potter: Analysis of Book 6
(Wizarding World Press, 2007).
Watson, Emma
Cast in 2000 to play the role of
Hermione Granger in the
Harry Potter films, Watson had
only limited acting experience from school plays. Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson
was born 15 April 1990 in
Paris,
France.
Additional biographical details are available at:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0914612/.
Fan sites include:
http://www.emma-watson.org/
and http://www.emmawatson-fans.com/Home.htm
Waylett, Jamie
Born in July 1989 in
London,
England,
Jamie Waylett was cast as
Vincent Crabbe in the
Harry Potter films.
Further information can be found at:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915488/
Whitbread Prize
In 1999, JKR was awarded the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year prize for
CS. In a controversial vote
in 2000, PA narrowly missed
being awarded the overall Whitbread Prize for Literature (though it did also
win the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year prize that year).
Whited, Lana
Editor of
The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon,
a collection of critical essays on the Harry Potter novels
published by the University of Missouri Press in hardback in 2002 and in
paperback in 2004. Lana Whited teaches English and journalism at
Ferrum College in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and writes a weekly column
on media issues for roanoke.com.
Williams, Mark
Born in 1959 in England, Williams was cast in the role of
Arthur Weasley in the
Harry Potter films. Further
details about his life and career can be found at:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0931247/
Wimbourne Minster
Wimbourne Minster is a village in southern
Dorset near the
village of West Mors, where Rowling's paternal grandparents,
Ernie and
Kathleen Rowling, had a
grocery store business called Glenwood Stores in Station Road for many
years. West Mors and Wimbourne Minster are both in the vicinity of
Bournemouth, a sizeable coastal
Dorset town
just northwest of the Isle of Wight.
Winterbourne
The Rowling family moved to 35 Nicholls Lane in this village to the northeast
of Bristol sometime in 1970 and lived
here until 1974. Rowling first attended school in the Winterbourne primary
school. The Potters were neighbors to the Rowling family in this village
in the early 1970s. The village derived its name from Bradley Brook, a
brook that used to burn or dry up in the wintertime. After Henry III's
"Disafforestation Act" in 1228, the native forests were cleared
and agriculture became the main-stay of the village economy (wheat,
flax and barley in particular). Stone quarrying and coal mining were
also carried out in this vicinity. See
http://www.winterbourne.freeuk.com/ludwell.htm
Witching Hour, The
The Witching Hour was a Harry Potter symposium sponsored by
HP Education Fanon, Inc. It was held in
Salem, Massachusetts
in October 2005. For further information, see
http://www.witchinghour.org
Wright, Bonnie
Born in 1991 in
London, England,
Ms. Wright was cast in the role of
Ginny Weasley in the
Harry Potter films.
Further details about her life and career can be found at:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0942247/
Wright, Cliff
Illustrator of the Bloomsbury editions
of CS and
PA.
Wye River
The Wye River forms the border between
Wales and
England
near where it flows into the Severn River. This part of the border also
separates Chepstow from
Tutshill, where Rowling lived for some
years starting in 1974. In the 1600s, according to a
Famous Wizard card, a
troll terrorized travellers
crossing the Wye River; the
troll was eventually
defeated by Almerick Sawbridge
(fw41). While Rowling does
not give the exact location of this
troll-infested crossing,
she might very well be thinking of the stretch of river near where she grew
up.
