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Microsoft opens up Harry Potter: Here's your chance to star in the next film

by Matt Asay
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Always thought you had the right stuff to be a Harry Potter film star? Now's your chance.

Thanks to Microsoft and Warner Brothers, fans will have the chance to get their Gryffindor on and hang out with Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, and crew:

Fans will have to complete an online quiz on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as part of the competition, arranged by Warner Home Video and Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions' UK division.

Those who answer all the questions correctly will get the chance to appear in the next film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

The real question is which part Microsoft will be playing...Lord Voldemort, anyone? ;-)

Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can follow Matt on Twitter @mjasay.
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Article Misleading...Only to UK Residents
by rubeun November 24, 2007 12:14 PM PST
The article is misleading...the contest is ONLY for UK residents 12 years and up. You might have accidentally built some American Harry Potter fans hopes up.

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/11/22/new-contest-for-uk-residents-to-win-part-in-order-of-the-phoenix
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I didn't catch that...
by Matt Asay November 25, 2007 8:50 AM PST
...My own hopes have been dashed, too! I guess they want the British accent. Perhaps I could do my Dick Van **** attempt?
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Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to the Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is general manager of the Americas division and vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.

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