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News Round-Up Nov. 2: The Brother-Sister Bond, Low Vaccination Rates and J.K. Rowlings Plans for Ron Weasley

What we’re reading today:

1. There’s a school in California’s Bay Area with a 23 percent vaccination rate. Less than a quarter of the kids at the Waldorf School are vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella and they could be putting kids with compromised immune systems at serious risk.

2. Did you see Neil Patrick Harris’ Halloween family portrait?Amazing.

3. After three miscarriages, this couple kept trying. (And it paid off!)

4. Mona Simpson’s eulogy for her brother Steve Jobs has inspired Peggy Orenstein to write about that important brother-sister bond.

5. J.K. Rowling says she considered killing off Ron Weasley. RON WEASLEY!! Man, we had a hard enough time with [SPOILER] Fred and were in denial about Sirius for at least the next book.

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Will J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore Website Be a Game?

We hear that gamification is the big things these days…

Last week we discovered that Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is cooking up something new with her website Pottermore.com. We’ve just checked her YouTube annoucement page and you wouldn’t believe all the owls crowding up the place! Mashable reports that the Times UK got ahold of a memo that said Pottermore will be an online gaming site. We imagine we’ll hear more tomorrow, in 17 hours’ time.

So what sort of games would you expect?