According to the Sydney Talent Company, Australian actor Martin Landham has won the role of Ludo Bagman in GoF. This is, of course, still being treated as rumor by your friends here at TLC until we can further verify it. Thanks, Lucas (aka Lucius)!

For our very lucky Oakland, CA friends: A’s sponsor Potter day Scholastic Inc. and the Oakland Athletics are sponsoring a Harry Potter day at Network Associates Coliseum on Sunday (July 6th) at the 1:05 p.m. game between the A’s and the Anaheim Angels. A’s mascot Stomper will give away 200 paperback copies of “Harry Potter …read more!

Well, sure…Ron could tell you about that! Internetnews.com reported that Harry Potter was the number one search on Yahoo! for the week of June 28, 2003. On Lycos, however, he fell a distant second to the new American Do Not Call Registry. Third most popular: Do Not Call Me While I’m Trying To Read OotP …read more!

A review by Julian Sanchez of ReasonOnline takes a look at the “banality of evil” in OotP. Thanks, Anna!

Jim Caple of ESPN created a fanfic of his own that – if nothing else – serves to make us even happier that it’s JK who’s truly at bat when it comes to HP. (Editor’s Commentary: Melissa and I agree; it’s hilarous!)

According to an intrepid reader, a review of OotP appeared in the Italian newspaper “Notizie dell’alto mondo” this week and included a picture of actors Tilda Swinton, Gary Oldman and David Thewlis with the caption “Here’s Trelawney,Sirius and Lupin.” This should be treated simply as rumor although we are working to validate it. Should anyone …read more!

Thanks Valerie for alerting us that the official site for the Peter Pan the movie starring Jason Isaacs as Mr. Darling and Captain Hook is now open and has some great pics, including this one!

Our friends at TheForce.Net have created a concept-by-concept, spoiler-filled comparison of OotP and the Star Wars series. You’ll probably agree with some of it, and you might disagree with other parts, but it’s an interesting read.

Ack, meant to link to this a while ago – check out Newsround’s ‘Pure Potter’ chat, in which Lizo Mzimba chats with kids about the fifth book and a BBC correspondent sits Chris Rankin down for a talk about the OotP revelations (and whether Dan Radcliffe has the temperament to portray the 15-year-old Harry). Not …read more!

According to faithful reader G.V.Linares, the first trailer for Prisoner of Azkaban will be released with Matrix Revolutions November 5th. We’re working to verify this.