An interview with Julie Waters (Mrs. Weasley) from The Guardian. Editor’s Warning: This article includes some questionable language. May not be suitable for all readers. Thanks, Elaureth!

HPANA reports that the film version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets won Best Foreign Film at China’s 9th annual Huabiao Film Awards.

BBC’s Andrew Walker takes a look at fan fiction of all kinds – including both Harry Potter and Fiction Alley.

The Sunday Post News has an article about Seabottom, who have filed applications to register various Harry Potter and the… marks with the European Community Trademark Office. They report that they have learned that Seabottom …has the same London address as Warner’s European trademark lawyers, Field Fisher Waterhouse. TLC reader Susan discovered this early in …read more!

Shami Chakrabarti, director of the human rights pressure group Liberty, is interviewed by The Independent’s Ben Russell. She equates the current 1984-like actions of the UK government not to the Orwellian book but to the recent portrayal of the Ministry of Magic in Book 5.

Sorry for the lack of news this weekend but all of us at TLC managed to schedule ourselves to all be busy at the same time. But we’re trickling back along with some of the news. Thanks to all of you who thought the site dissapeared behind the veil & decided to check.