With Rowling’s help, you, too, can be a Harry plotter
Harry Potter will survive to the seventh book of J.K. Rowling‘s series about the young wizard, but she won’t say whether he will reach adulthood.
“He will survive to book seven, mainly because I don’t want to be strangled by you lot,” she told fans Sunday at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. “But I don’t want to say whether he grows any older than that.”
Rowling, who’s working on the sixth book, “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince,” said curious fans should focus on why Harry’s nemesis, the evil warlock Voldemort, hadn’t been killed.
“Why didn’t Dumbledore kill, or try to kill, Voldemort?” she said, referring to the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Rowling further teased her fans over whether Harry’s pals, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, would be more than pals by the end of the series.
“I’m not going to say. I can’t say. I think I’ve given quite a lot of clues by now on this subject,” she said. “You are going to have to read between the lines on that one.”
Or else she’s just shining him on
Hotel heiress and socialite Nicky Hilton tied the knot with her beau, New York money manager Todd Andrew Meister, in a Las Vegas ceremony in the wee hours of Sunday morning.
“Access Hollywood” said older sister Paris Hilton and actress Bijou Phillips were among those on hand for the 2:30 a.m. ceremony.
“This is a real, meaningful, loving relationship,” a Hilton spokesman said. “They are glowing.”
And who’s Paris sneaking around with?
Meanwhile, Paris Hilton, recently split from Backstreet Boy Nick Carter, and Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst reportedly were “all over each other” at a Los Angeles party to introduce a new line of sneakers.
And Jake Gyllenhaal, fresh from his breakup with Kirsten Dunst, was spotted sharing sushi an L.A. restaurant with Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Sounds like a lot of Jive talk to us
Speaking of boy band-ers, Justin Timberlake has told the other members of ‘N Sync that he will not contribute to their next album, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer.
“Justin said he’s not in the mood,” an unnamed source told the newspaper.
Said a statement from ‘N Sync’s label, Jive: “There’s no album scheduled for this year from either ‘N Sync, Justin Timberlake or JC Chasez. The group is still together.”
Hopefully he won’t miss a beat
Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts is being treated for throat cancer, a spokesman for the band said.
Watts, 63, was diagnosed in June and has completed four weeks of a six-week course of radiotherapy at London’s Royal Marsden Hospital.
“He is expecting to make a full recovery and start work with the rest of the band later in the year,” the spokesman said.
She was left holding the Dogg pounds
Snoop Dogg finally has been served papers in a 1997 lawsuit filed against him by a Virginia music promoter who claims the rapper tricked her into picking up three packages filled with 7 pounds of marijuana.
Patricia Ann Richardson says she was not arrested, but was searched, handcuffed and questioned.
Her lawyer arranged for the Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Department to serve the lawsuit on Snoop when he appeared for a concert in that city last week.
The birthday bunch
Actress Maureen O’Hara is 84. Actor Robert De Niro is 61. Actor Sean Penn is 44. Actor David Conrad (“Relativity”) is 37. Rapper Posdnuos (Del La Soul) is 35. Singer Donnie Wahlberg (New Kids on the Block) is 35. Actor Bryton McClure (“Family Matters”) is 18.