Later today, The Leaky Cauldron will have the honor of being among the only five Harry Potter Web sites to post, in conjunction with Warner Brothers and Wizards of the Coast, the webcast for the new Harry Potter Trading Card Game. It will highlight the Quidditch Cup expansion set as well as other details about …read more!

Claims that sales of classical music CDs have at last begun to rise are premature: what is selling are chillout compilations and soundtracks. Harry Potter can stay in Catholic classrooms, Saskatoon board rules. The Catholic school board has decided to allow Harry Potter books to be used in the classroom despite claims from some that …read more!

Dark Mark has posted an article from Variety on the challenge of educating the young actors on the Harry Potter set.

Budding young authors across Northern Ireland have been urged to create their own magical world as part of a new children’s competition launched today. The winner of the Coca-Cola story writing initiative will be offered the unique opportunity to visit the set of the next Harry Potter movie. They and their family will take part …read more!

A young composer with high-tech savvy, [Jeremy] Soule’s career is soaring in the video-game business, which is becoming a trendy industry for recording artists and musicians. Soule (rhymes with “goal”) created the score for this year’s hit “Harry Potter” games from Electronic Arts in Redwood City. … On Thursday, the Academy of Interactive Arts and …read more!

In an article from last November called “Harry Potter Owl Scenes Alarm Animal Advocates,” National Geographic also has a gallery of pictures of the different owls in the Harry Potter books, including some speculation on Pigwidgeon: “The species name of Harry’s friend Ron’s new (as of the end of the third book) owl, Pigwidgeon, is …read more!

Despite being a British Awards ceremony nominated by British Academy members, there were a number of disappointments in the evening for a couple of local films – two of the biggest British box office successes of the year, Harry Potter and Bridget Jones’s Diary, went home empty-handed. A recent BCC News poll asks readers if …read more!

Congratulations to BK deLong and my fellow editors at The Leaky Cauldron for winning “Best News Site” and to Rames and the team at HP Galleries for winning “Best Movie Site” at the Dark Mark‘s fandom website awards. And congrats to all the other winners too! (as this editor scurries back to the FictionAlley celebration).

Harry Potter fans got their last chance to glimpse a scene from the second film on Sunday. The last scenes at King’s Cross station were being shot, and platform four was once again turned into platform nine and three quarters. Every kid — and most adults — who’ve read a Harry Potter book have surely …read more!

Backed by $320 million in box office sales and a legion of worldwide fans, just putting Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone into mass release this spring on DVD and VHS would be enough to create a major retail event. A major target of the retail effort will be in the supermarket channel, which has …read more!