First lead cast and confirmed!

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Subject: First lead cast and confirmed!
Date: 7/23/00 9:07 am  (ET)

Saturday July 22 5:06 PM ET
Ook the Owl Lands Plumb Harry Potter Film Part

LONDON (Reuters) - Ook the white owl has landed a plum part in what may
be one of the most eagerly anticipated children's films of all time.

The British bird is to play Hedwig, the snowy white owl that delivers
the mail for the schoolboy wizard Harry Potter, in the Hollywood film
that director Christopher Columbus is to start shooting in Britain
in September.

``He is perfect for the part,'' said Ook's owner, Roger Pearson, who
tours British schools with Ook in his job with the Natural History
Lecture Service.

``He works in schools a great deal and has done since he was six weeks
old so he is aware of children of all ages,'' he told The Mail on Sunday.

The four books about Harry Potter's adventures at the Hogwarts school
of wizardry and witchcraft have proved one of the biggest successes in
modern publishing and made author J.K. Rowling a multi-millionaire.