What happened in 2003?
It was a long wait, but on June 21st of 2003, Book 5, entitled Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, was released in the U.K. and the U.S.

Rating	2003	Title & highlights*	Links	Type
****	February	Interview with Steve Kloves and J.K. Rowling Chamber of Secrets DVD Kloves: "There's one thing in Chamber [of Secrets movie] that Jo indicated will play later in the series..." JKR: "Dumbledore often speaks for me." If JKR needs to tell the readers something, she uses Hermione or Dumbledore to say it.	text video	interview
**	February 6	JK Rowling's fame spoils her cafe culture The Scotsman	text	report on an interview
**	February 28	JK on Simpsons, show to air at end of year cBBC Newsround	text	report
March 23, 2003: David Gordon Rowling Murray born
**	June 16, 17, 18	The J.K. Rowling Story The Scotsman	text	biography (tabloid-ish)
*****	June 19	JK's OOTP interview (Jeremy Paxman), BBC Newsnight JKR: "Yeah. Well I had re-written the death [in book 5], re-written it and that was it. It was definitive. And the person was definitely dead." The Deaths Eaters were once called "the Knights of Walpurgis."	text video	interview
***	June 20	I'm not writing for the money: It's for me and out of loyalty to fans The Times (London)	text	interview
***	June 20	Interview with Katie Couric Dateline NBC (U.S.)	text video	interview
June 21, 2003: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix published (U.K. & U.S.)
* NEW!	June 23	The Shy Sorceress Time Magazine (U.S.)	text	some quotage
*****	June 26	Interview with Stephen Fry at Royal Albert Hall JKR: "I think you're all getting far too fond of Draco." 'Mundungus' means 'Tobacco.' SF: Albus Dumbledore is on the side of light and his name means white. JKR: Yes, white and wisdom as well SF: And wisdom from "Alb." And in Britain, Albion was an old name for a Briton JKR: "I don't want to give too much away, but Dumbledore is a very wise man who [...] has had to step back a little bit from Harry in an effort to teach him some of life's harder lessons." JKR: "I think what I was trying to do with the death in this book [Book 5] was show how very arbitrary and sudden death is. JKR: "Luna is the anti-Hermione because Hermione is so logical and so inflexible whereas Luna is the one who is prepared to believe a thousand mad things before breakfast." JKR: "You shouldn't think [Snape is] too nice. Let me just say that. It is worth keeping an eye on old Severus Snape, definitely." Dumbledore thought the DADA job would "bring out the worst in Snape." Parselmouth is an old word for someone who has a problem with their mouth like a hair lip. Arithmancy is "predicting the future with numbers."	text	interview
***	June 30	Her Magic Moment Newsweek (U.S.)	text	interview
** NEW!	June 23	The Real Magic Of Harry Potter Time	text	report
**	July 14	Something About Harry Newsweek (U.S.)	text	review
*	July 7	Harry Potter And The Childish Adult New York Times	text	commentary
**	July 8	A.S. Byatt and the Goblet of Bile Salon	text	commentary
**	July 10	Harry Potter attack starts war of words Literary feathers fly as Booker prize-winner suggests latest best-seller lacks magic The Daily Telegraph (London)	text	commentary
**	October	Fighting in a Battle That Will Never Be Won (Príncipe de Asturias Prize acceptance speech)	text	Rowling statement
Rating	2003	Title & highlights*	Links	Type

*Article highlights created by Deborah Skinner (aka 'Madam Scoop') and Lisa Bunker

Original page date 21 September 2006; last updated 9 July, 2007

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