More from the KMart Contact about the stills gallery: The Gallery had beautiful head shots of the major characters in costume- Harry, Ron Hermione, McGonnagal, Dumbledore, Snape, Hagrid, Draco, and Argus Filch. Sorry, no pictures of Quirrell, Madame Pomfrey or any of the ghosts or “Special Effects” Characters. Filch, eh. Excellent! I hope we’ll see …read more!

The Bristol Evening Post has a fascinating article on J.K. Rowling’s roots in the area including her fascination with witches and wizards as a child and the inspiration for Harry, her childhood friend Ian Potter

Our KMart Insider sent us an email with a few more details about the Rubies Costumes in relation to a previous post we did: The costume sets look pretty nice- tho the wands and broomsticks look way too chunky and cartoonish for my tastes. The real props for the movie look very “real”, but the …read more!

Today we’ll have several special posts coming from an “insider” at KMart International Headquarters where most of the Harry Potter licensees displayed wares ideally to buyers who would purchase them for sale in KMart Stores. There’s some great stuff that confirms a lot of what we have been reporting over the past few months.

Speaking of Harry Potter Galleries, Rames has just posted 12 watches from Fossil that will be available soon as well as a Spanish-language Harry Potter movie poster.

Rames at Harry Potter Galleries posted a rumor about a “Harold Potter” being part of a Monty Python sketch. That rumor is correct but Harry Potter is quite the common name in England.

Our contact at Wizards of the Coast finally emailed us a graphic from their upcoming Harry Potter Trading Card Game. Hopefully we’ll have more soon.

John Welter from the Durham Herald Sun pokes fun at Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, Nancy Stouffer, Christians and the Wiccan religion in his most recent column about Stouffer’s claims.

An eagle-eye spotted this bit of information about the origin of Mrs. Norris in the Boston Globe: Society members also delight in citing popular culture references to their heroine. One pointed out a nod to [Jane] Austen in the best selling Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling. The series describes a mean old cat …read more!

Daily Variety is reporting that Fandom will be shutting down it’s Web site and online operations to concentrate on its magazine and fan conventions, including it’s Harry Potter fan site which was bought from 13 year old Kate Cheney in July 2000. Sci-fi, fantasy and horror entertainment venture Fandom said Monday that it will shut …read more!