Emma Watson has now joined Facebook! In a tweet on her official twitter, Emma has posted a link to her new facebook page.

It sure has been a week for surprises!

Emma’s Twitter
In less than a week, Emma’s twitter following has grown to over 55,000 members. In a second tweet she thanked everyone for all the messages, saying “I have the best fans!” I’m still getting questions asking if this is really her. Yes, it is Emma. The twitter is linked from her official site. You can believe it. There are still twitters that claim to be Emma, or an official site account, but you can know they are fake because they are not linked on EWO. Happily, some of these are disappearing.

20 Most Beautiful
Portrait Magazine is planning their first issue dedicated entirely to beauty. They are accepting nominations for the most beautiful people in entertainment and sports, with “beauty” including physical beauty as well as attitude, style, career choice, charity and environment involvement, role mode status and behavior. The top 50 nominees will then compete in a poll, and the top 20 will be featured in a “20 Most Beautiful” article in their beauty issue. Emma is a beautiful person in so many ways, so let’s make sure Emma gets on that list and nominate her here.

Scans
Bec let us know that Emma is featured on the August cover of Dolly in Australia. We have a preview of the cover, but don’t know if there is an article along with it. Dominika sent us a couple scans from a Polish magazine, not sure what the article is about. And from Elmira, we have a scan from the August issue of Instyle UK, which mentions Emma and Rodarte fashions. Thank you all.

Burberry Displays
Kate sent in some photos she took of the Autumn/Winter displays at the Burberry store in Vienna last year.Thank you Kate.

Emma is now on twitter Great Fridays, the people behind Emma’s official site, announced on their facebook page that Emma is now on twitter and posted her first tweet. The twitter is not verified, and has not been announced on EWO, but I’m 95% convinced it is real. If not, it’s a very good fake.

Update:Emma’s tweet was retweeted both on Great Friday’s twitter and Rob Noble’s twitter, founder of Great Fridays. 99% convinced. 😉

Update 2: WB’s twitter HarryPotterFilm has tweeted welcoming Emma to twitter. Convinced. 🙂

Update 3: Emma’s official site has an update on her new twitter account. And Emma’s twitter has been updated with a picture and background. The account is also now verified.

Ok, everyone who followed Emma or “official site” twitters in the past, now you know they are all fakes. Please unfollow them.

Ok, let’s get the August calendar competition started.

• The size of the calendar should be a minimum 1024×768. Higher resolutions are good. Widescreen is also allowed.
• Calendars must be in a common graphics format such as jpg, tiff, gif or png.
• It must have Emma-Watson.net and August and it should have the dates. It should be mostly original work, and images used should be respectful of Emma’s privacy.
• The deadline to submit calendars is July 27.
• No more than 3 entries per person please. All entries must be sent to emmawatson.graphics@gmail.com

We have a lot of new fan graphics added to the site for you today!

New fan art from Erin, Riley and Yaroslav.

A new wallpaper from Elena.

New banners from Chiquita.

A bunch of new avatars by Jia and Chiquita.

And we have a couple restyles from Emily and Elena.

Thank you all for sending them in.

Hey everyone, I meant to post this earlier, but things happen. I’ll just copy a comment by Alyssa, but thanks to Alin and Cheryl also. There are literally only a few hours left to vote, midnight EST, but HPA is only a few hundreds votes behind the lead, so every last minute vote will help.

The Harry Potter Alliance, the same amazing organization who had the hugely successful “Helping Haiti Heal” event earlier this year needs your help!

They are in competition for a $250,000 donation to their organization, which would go towards helping some amazing causes such as literacy and LGBT rights.

If you haven’t voted yet, go to http://www.hpaforthewin.com and vote now.

1. Click “Get started to vote” (the second green button, top right)
2. Allow access and then click “Like”
3. Click “Vote now” (green button, top right)

On The Run
More segments previewing Deathly Hallows have aired on ABC Family. This second video features scenes of Harry, Ron and Hermione ‘on the run’ and searching for the Horcruxes. Interviews with Emma, Rupert and Dan are included.

Forest Run
The third video shows Hermione, Ron and Harry running from the Snatchers through the forest. Emma, Rupert and Dan talk about who runs faster.

ABC Family’s Harry Potter Weekend has begun. Here we have the first video of cast interviews with Emma, Dan and Rupert. There is also behind the scenes footage and clips from the Battle of Hogwarts, Malfoy Manor, camping, etc. Sorry it’s not HD or widescreen.

The Story

ABC Family is presenting the first five films during another Harry Potter Weekend, starting today with Sorcerer’s Stone and concluding Sunday with Order of the Phoenix. There will also be “never-before-seen cast interviews and footage from Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows“

Thursday, July 8th
(7:30 – 10:30 PM ET/PT) “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”
 
Friday, July 9th
(3:30 – 7:00 PM ET/PT) “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”
(7:00 – 11:00 PM ET/PT) “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”
 
Saturday, July 10th
(12:30 – 4:30 PM ET/PT) “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”
(4:30 – 7:30 PM ET/PT) “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”
(7:30 – 11:00 PM ET/PT) “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”
 
Sunday, July 11th
(1:30 – 4:30 PM ET/PT) “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”
(4:30 – 8:00 PM ET/PT) “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”
(8:00 – 11:00 PM ET/PT) “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”

Love from Emma on Sale
People Tree is having a sale of up to 50% off on many items from the Love from Emma collection, and their other ranges. If you haven’t bought yet, now might be the time.

Burberry Displays
We have a couple pictures from a Burberry store in Melbourne Australia, thanks to Nicole. These are for the A/W line, but it’s winter down there. 🙂 Emma is not part of the next advertising campaign, so I expect these will all be disappearing soon.

Scans
Valentina sent us some scans from Croatia. OK! Magazine had a competition to “be Emma for one day” and the winner got a makeover to look like her. Gloria IN had a feature on makeup which included Emma.

Quotes about Emma
With the end of filming, a number of actors from HP have commented about the experience, and impressions of Emma, Dan and Rupert. Credit to Snitchseeker and UHP for some of these.

Daniel on his height and the trio
“I didn’t get particularly worried because as long as Emma and Rupert weren’t shooting up too quickly either, I’d look [fine]. We’d all look relatively [the same height]. It was all going to be OK.”

Julie Walters on watching the trio grow over the years.
“It was sad. They were all little tots when we started and now they are great big blokes and girls. I felt very sad on the last day. Being part of such a huge phenomenon was amazing. It has meant that a whole generation of children recognise me now. Mind you, they don’t always, because I wear a wig and padding in the films, which even Daniel Radcliffe didn’t realise. I had to point out to him that it’s all birdseed under my dress.”

Warwick Davis, on the last day of filming and being there with the trio
“I shot my last day on ‘Harry Potter’ last Saturday. It was a very sad, very emotional day. I never really get upset finishing a film. I’m normally glad that it’s over, that I won’t have to wear the makeup anymore – but I was actually really quite choked up about it. Ten years’ worth of work finished, and on Sunday, it was worse. I woke up Sunday morning thinking, ‘No more Harry Potter. That’s it.’ “

“It was them, as it should be,” he said. “The three of them. I was lucky to be there for the last day. I think I was the only other cast member in on it.”

Bill Nighy on working with the trio
Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person. And Daniel was charming. And Rupert I’d already worked with, so it was nice to work with him again. And they were really welcoming a nice to me. You know, they’ve been there for 10 years. There were people on that movie that were finishing their Harry Potter life, and people who’d been there for 10 years. It had been their life.

And they’d become great friends. I mean, you do on a single movie. You become great friends with people and get married or have babies, or they just become good friends. It’s always tough to pull away because you go do another movie. But on Harry Potter they’ve done however many they’ve done – six movies – and they’ve become big parts of each others’ lives. So there was a feeling of the ends of things for people.

Some people finished while I was there. They had their last scenes, and it’s a very big deal. It’s not like other movies.

I think they will all go on and make other movies. The audience that grew up with them will be happy to see them in other things. They are all good young actors and I should think they will continue to make movies and the audience will grow with them and follow them wherever they go, I would think. They are such popular performers now and they are part of people’s lives. They’ve grow up together, and that audience will stay with them, I would think.

SOTM Award
Emma-Watson.net has been selected as July Site of the Month at Portrait Magazine. Thank you Kat, we appreciate it.

Deathly Hallows Poster
And finally, WB has released a teaser poster for Deathly Hallows showing the battle of Hogwarts. The official Harry Potter website has been updated with a new background using a wide version of the scene which I’ve captured at high resolution. I don’t see Hermione, but I’m sure she’s there somewhere. Update: Now have a version without the logo, and if you like the logo, I added it back but less obtrusive. Thanks for the tip tree.