Absolutely amazing. The Harry Potter Galleries has both updated and reorganized their “Movie Actors” page, making it easier to read and offering insight as to who still hasn’t been cast yet. They also added a much better picture of David Bradley who is playing Argus Filch – this picture looks VERY Filch-like.

The Italian publisher of the Harry Potter series will be releasing their translation for Goblet of Fire on this Friday, 02/16.

Today is Valentine’s Day – the perfect day to eat chocolate and ward off any Dementors lurking in your psyche.

According to the Nordic Business Report, the 4th Harry Potter book (Goblet of Fire) will be printed in Finnish today. “Some 60,000 copies of ‘Harry Potter ja liekehtiva pikari‘ have been printed, a record size edition for this type of book in Finland. Tammi, a publisher, has said that half the first edition has already …read more!

I was watching CNN Today and they were talking about some of the new toys at Toy Fair: “Here is something brand new. This is from the people at Mattel, and Harry Potter is going to be big. This is the Levitating Challenge. Look at this magic, levitating ball here and I have to have …read more!

The Family Almanac section of the Washington Post has an interesting question-and-answer about a child scared after being read the book series.

The Mirror reports that a Polish priest claims Harry Potter to be evil: “A POLISH priest has warned his congregation that Harry Potter is a heathen living in a world “ruled by supernatural powers” and said the books should not be read by children. “

We believe we’ve located a picture of the actor playing Argus Filtch – David Bradley. Bradley is famous for playing the part of Rogue Riderhood in the BBC production of “Our Mutual Friend”, the lecherous baronet Sir Pitt Crawley in a six-part BBC Mini-Series “Vanity Fair”, a 1990 role as The Fool in the National …read more!

Amazon.com is stating that Book 5 will not be published until 2002. The good news is that you can start pre-ordering. No sign of the book on Borders or Barnes and Noble yet.

The Journal reports that the Enesco Harry Potter Series I products are beginning to arrive in the UK.