The London Telegraph has an article about Fiona Shaw’s next venture, playing Medea on stage. In the article, she discusses her involvement as Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter film: She is keener than ever on film. Having starred in a number of mediocre mainstream Hollywood movies, she’s upbeat about the chances of her next. …read more!

Empire Online gives Chris Columbus a little tongue-in-cheek flack for giving his daughter a part as an extra – one of Hermione’s friends – in the movie. Columbus also discusses the amount of influence his kids had on the film.

New Harry Potter rumors from the Atlanta International Gift and Home Furnishings Show this week – Gund has released plush toys from the first book including a Hagrid with felt keys at his side (approx. 16″), Norbert sitting on top of a broken shell, Hedwig, Mrs. Norris and Fluffy (all approx. 12″). A Harry Potter …read more!

Action Figure News has what might be one of the new action figures coming from Mattel. This looks different then the highly–detailed Maquettes from The Four Horsemen.

Harry Potter might have competition from another group of orphans.

Speaking of Jim Dale, he’s reading from all four books next Saturday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

This article from the Cleveland Plains Dealer describes much the way I came to Harry Potter – via Jim Dale’s phenomenal reading of the series,

IGN Filmforce speculates on creature effects for the Harry Potter movie.

Hey, that’s not cricket! – A key source of fan speculation is quietly and surreptitiously fixed in later editions of Goblet of Fire.

Is travel by broom not too far off? “If Ginger is indeed a kind of 60 mph wheeled witch’s broom, there would be a sort of outlandish logic to it, given the inventor’s background.”