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Phyllis wrote:

> The Yahoo movies site for CoS says that Radcliffe's birthday is
> July 23, 1989.  But I could swear that it used to say that it was 
> July 31, because I thought at the time that it was an uncanny 
> coincidence.  It must have been an error that was later corrected.

Yes, yes and yes again to all three points you make. As someone else 
pointed out earlier in this thread, IMDb is a user-generated site and 
thus very much fallible. They make additions and corrections to the 
database all the time, as and when new information comes to light.

(The Radcliffe birthday issue arose because the WB folks said at the 
first press conference in summer 2000 that Dan's birthday was on the 
31st July; it wasn't until he himself confirmed his real birthday 
during one of the US TV shows in the runup to the PS/SS release that 
the database was corrected.)

Incidentally, it's not *that* easy to get false information into the 
database, as much like this list, until contributors are known to 
provide largely correct information, any input is always vetted 
internally. I say that as someone who is responsible for several 
pieces of information (none of them HP-related).

The JKR cameo appearance in CoS is a long-standing internet rumour 
(since about Easter-time, as I recall) and I suspect that as with a 
great deal of HP stuff, somebody otherwise reliable took it as a fact.

Ditto the recently-corrected details for GoF which insisted that it 
was going to be filmed at the same time as PoA (I notice that in view 
of Columbus's recent casting comments, they've even taken down *all* 
the cast, except for Jason Isaacs - although they could include 
Robbie Coltrane). :-)

My own attitude usually is that unless and until information included 
on IMDb can be confirmed from other sources, I never take anything 
they say at face value, and would suggest other people do as well. So 
can we *please* stop discussing it?

Frankly, HP fans appear to be far more gullible than most when it 
comes to net rumours (and I have been or am part of several fan 
communities, so I have several comparisons)...