Whilst searching through Amazon.com for any “Harry Potter” news, I found a page where one can sign up to be notified when the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone DVD becomes available. More interesting, however, is the list of extra features: Two disc set Never-before-seen footage Self-guided tour of Hogwarts Mix potions, perform transfigurations, explore …read more!

On July 31, Scholastic will release the paperback edition of the fastest selling book in history, “Harry Potter and The Goblet Of Fire”. As reported on ComingSoon.com, Cindy Pearlman of the Chicago Sun-Times got talking to The Count of Monte Cristo star Richard Harris, who is filming Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in …read more!

Empire Online reports that Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has won the Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Technical Achievement. The magic touch of Harry Potter helped boost the shares in Hornby, the maker of classic train and racing car sets, after it said it expected profits to significantly exceed market expectations after …read more!

From Gil Smart, assistant news editor of Lancaster Online: “They’re laughing at us, you know. It’s in Sports Illustrated this week, right there in the column ‘This Week’s Sign of the Apocalypse’: ‘The Lancaster (Pa.) YMCA is scrambling for security help for its Sept. 7 triathlon after a nearby fire police department decided to boycott …read more!

And thanks also to Donna for the head’s-up regarding this interview with J.K. Rowling which is airing tonight (3 February) on the CBS news program Sixty Minutes.

Thanks to reader Linda for letting us know that Counting Down had posted a link to four new pictures from the set of Chamber of Secrets. Police fear the popularity of owls has soared in Bolton following the success of the Harry Potter hit movie. Police wildlife officers in Bolton have seen a rise in …read more!

It was no magic when Melissa Leech made milk disappear from a rolled-up newspaper Wednesday afternoon, but it certainly appeared that way to her class of little witches and wizards. Allard Elementary School learning support teacher Leech, in the guise of Professor McGongall, deputy headmistress of Hogwarts School, showed her second-grade pupils that science can …read more!

Rames has informed us that Hogwarts Online will be down for the weekend, as they move servers. Don’t worry too much when you click on the link and can’t get to the site – it’ll be back soon!

The city was buzzing with star-studded excitement as filming got under way for the Harry Potter sequel at Gloucester Cathedral. Stars braved the rain as they moved about the ultra-secretive Warner Bros set, and some even stopped to pose for the cameras. (Thanks to The Wizard World for the link.) Reader Roger also points us …read more!

While the popularity of Harry Potter sweeps the country, J.K. Rawlings’ [sic] books dominate the best-seller lists, and the movie adaptation of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone earns upward of $300 million, poor Harry faces foes in this country more formidable than his nemesis, Draco Malfoy and villainous Lord Voldemort (thanks to Donna for …read more!