Amazon.co.uk is currently taking pre-orders for Order of the Phoenix at 50% off! Amazon.com in the US is also accepting pre-orders (although no price has been announced yet).

iharrypotter.net tipped us off to a BBC article about the LOCATION of said manuscript. What We Know The manuscript is under lock & key at an undisclosed location The only two people (besides J.K) who have read the book are editor Emma Matthewson (who edited from CoS onwward and the Comic Relief books) and Bloomsbury …read more!

Erupting indeed….this post will be where we track news coverage of the announcement. You can follow along with us real-time. Here’s the various articles being written: Washington Post E! Online News CNN Money Associated Press (via NY Daily News) Reuters (via SABC News) ITN Channel 5 News The Australian Financial Times Dow Jones News Service …read more!

Go here for this very handy article from Newsround detailing the production process for OotP which is now under way! Yay! [Yes, we will be erupting like this at random moments for some time.]

Here it is, folks: The book to be released on June 21, 2003, in U.S., Britain, Canada and Australia,, the book is 38 chapters long, and over one-third longer than Goblet of Fire – with quick math that’s close to 1,000 pages. That’s all of Lord of the Rings. Anyway, here you go: J.K. ROWLING’S …read more!

I must admit, I’m a bit disappointed that I haven’t found ANY information on Scholastics site under Corporate info or Kids area about the release date. However, it should be fun to watch Scholastic stock soar when US markets open this morning. Already Bloomsbury stock is quickly rising. We’ve placed the ticker symbols for both …read more!

A HA, it’s my time for REVENGE! HAH! Go here to wish her the best – and to thank her for having her birthday, hence getting us a book release date…yay!

Click here for the announcement by Bloomsbury of the June 21, 2003 release date. Yes, it’s Bloomsbury’s site, so it *is* official. Sections from the book on the Bloomsbury site include: “The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of …read more!

The previously mentioned article from AICN has changed a wee bit. Quotage: Timothy Spall has been cast as Peter Pettigrew for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I made the mistake earlier of saying it was Professor Lupin he was playing … Although it’s still a rumour at this point, it makes more sense, …read more!

To add to the ever-growning rumor list of PoA casting, Moriarty from AICN announces that a “very reliable source” has told him the part of Prof. Remus “Moony” Lupin has been cast as Timothy Spall from movies such as Vanilla Sky and the now-playing Nicholas Nickelby. Frankly with about 5-6 actors rumored to be up …read more!