In a 1999 interview, and again in 2004, Rowling singled out Snape as one of her favourite characters to write.

" Answering a question regarding Snape's love life and the redemptive pattern to his character in 1999, Rowling expressed her surprise at the foresight.

* 1999: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling

In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling when Harry Potter first meets Professor Lockhart, Professor Lockhart "... was wearing robes of forget-me-not blue that exactly matched his eyes ..." ( chapter four page 59 of the 1999 American edition ).

* Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J. K. Rowling ( Scholastic, 1999 )

* Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J. K. Rowling ( Scholastic, 1999 )

< li > An Apple I reportedly sold for $ 50, 000 USD at auction in 1999.

In March 1999, dBase was sold to KSoft, Inc. which was soon renamed to dBASE Inc. ( In 2004 dBASE Inc. was renamed to dataBased Intelligence, Inc .).

When Red Hat's stock rose significantly after its initial public offering in 1999, they sold enough stock to recoup their initial investment, and retained some stocks.

* 1999: Business. com sold for US $ 7. 5 million to eCompanies, which was purchased in 1997 for US $ 149, 000.

Bevan retired from the line-up in 1999 and sold his share of the ELO name to Jeff Lynne in 2000.

Commissioner. com was sold to SportsLine late in 1999 for $ 31 million in cash and stock in a watershed moment for the fantasy industry.

RotoNews. com was sold to Broadband Sports in 1999 and later survived as RotoWire. com.

Helicopter AS-365 N2 Dauphin crashed off the coast of the main island in July 1994, a smaller helicopter AS-355F-2 continued in service until mid-1997 and in 1999 was sold to France.

In December 1999, AM General sold the brand name to General Motors, but continued to manufacture the vehicles.

In 1999, the Wi-Fi Alliance was formed as a trade association to hold the Wi-Fi trademark under which most products are sold.

In 1999 the painting, The Wild Ones, had sold at Sotheby's in London for over £ 1. 2m, the highest price yet paid for a Yeats painting.

In 1999 it was sold on to the newly formed Lightworks Inc., then owned by Fairlight Japan, and then purchased by Gee Broadcast in May 2004.

NTA changed its name to Republic Pictures ( which was previously the name of a minor film studio, whose backlog had been sold to NTA ) in 1986, sold to Spelling Entertainment, Inc. in 1994, and was sold to Viacom in 1999, hence all the material sold to U. M .& M.

The last home game which was blacked out on television in the Philadelphia market as a result of not being sold out was against the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday, September 12, 1999, which was Andy Reid's first home game as new head coach of the Eagles.

In 1999, Seagull Software acquired the ObjectShare Java development lab ( including the original Smalltalk / V and Visual Smalltalk development team ), and still owns VisualSmalltalk, although worldwide distribution rights for the Smalltalk product remained with ObjectShare who then sold them to Cincom.

In 1999, a further 16 % of Telstra shares were sold to the public, leaving the Australian government with 51 % ownership.

In 1999, Volvo sold its car division Volvo Cars to Ford Motor Company for $ 6. 45 billion.

On 28 January 1999, Volvo Group sold its business area Volvo Car Corporation to the Ford Motor Company for US $ 6. 45 billion, with the resulting group largely set on commercial vehicles.

In 1999, Tim O ' Reilly, founder of the eponymous computer book publishing company, stated that his company sold more copies of its vi book than its emacs book.

Vickers remained independent until 1999 when the then Vickers plc was acquired by Rolls-Royce plc who sold the defence arm to Alvis plc, which became Alvis Vickers.

One of his first acts as team owner occurred on November 21, 1999, when he sold the naming-rights to Jack Kent Cooke Stadium to the highest bidder, Federal Express, who renamed the stadium FedExField.

Psion had sold its sole manufacturing plant in 1999 and started to withdraw from its PDA markets in late 2001, shedding 250 of 1, 200 staff and writing-off £ 40 million.

The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999.

* Homer Hickam, Jr .' s book Rocket Boys was adapted into the 1999 film October Sky.

Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

Finding that Baldrick has forgotten to write dates on the machine's dials, the rest of the film follows their attempts to find their way back to 1999, often creating huge historical anomalies in the process which must be corrected before the end.

* Adwa ( film ) ( 1999 ).

Entry-level IT workers and white-collar American workers alike have given Mike Judge's 1999 comedy film Office Space a cult following because of its heroic portrayal of ordinary office employees who become fed up with their jobs.

Love and Erlandson continued to pursue with the band, and released the single " Be A Man "— an outtake from the Celebrity Skin sessions — for the soundtrack of the Oliver Stone film Any Given Sunday ( 1999 ).

* Cleopatra ( 1999 film ), an American film produced by Hallmark Entertainment

Caitlin Clarke ( May 3, 1952 – September 9, 2004 ) was an American theater and film actress best known for her role as Valerian in the 1981 fantasy film Dragonslayer and for her role as Charlotte Cardoza in the 1998 – 1999 Broadway musical Titanic.

Flockhart played the role of Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream, a 1999 film version of Shakespeare's play.

In 1997 she and business partner Nancy Juvonen formed the production company Flower Films, with its first production the 1999 Barrymore film Never Been Kissed.

In 1999, Barrymore was honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its Former Child Star " Lifetime Achievement " Award commemorating her outstanding achievements within the film industry as a child actress.

Next, Lynch created his own television series with Mark Frost, the highly popular murder mystery Twin Peaks ( 1990 – 1991 ); he also created a cinematic prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ( 1992 ), a road movie, Wild at Heart ( 1990 ), and a family film, The Straight Story ( 1999 ) in the same period.

Déjà vu provides a plot point in The Matrix, a 1999 science fiction-action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski.

When the distribution company Elite Entertainment released the film on DVD in 1999, they retained the NC-17 version.

Goya in Bordeaux ( 1999 ) Spanish historical drama film written and directed by Carlos Saura about the life of Francisco de Goya.

* 1924 – František Vláčil, Czech film director, painter, and graphic artist ( d. 1999 )

* 1909 – Riccardo Freda, Italian film director ( d. 1999 )

When the 1999 film The Blair Witch Project was released, the extensive marketing campaign claimed it to be a real documentary, compiled from footage discovered abandoned in a forest.

The film received an overwhelmingly positive reception and won four Guldbagge Awards ( Sweden's official film awards ) at the 1999 ceremony.

* Verzaubert International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Germany: Best film nomination ( 1999 )