John Hurt, a.k.a. Mr. Ollivander, plays Tory minister Alan Clark in a six-part drama on BBC Four once a week from Jan. 15 through Feb. 19. Much thanks to the reader who sent this in!

In this article from CNN, scientists have compared a camouflage device of the Hawaiian Bobtail Squid to that of Harry Potters Invisibility Cloak….Editors Note..No word on whether or not this squid is related to the Giant Squid..:-) Thanks Amy!

Production of films such as the upcoming Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, have helped the British Film Industry record a banner year with a staggering $1.17 billion pounds(2.16 billion USD) Read more in this story from Reuters

Matthew Lewis, Devon Murray, James & Oliver Phelps will be coming to America for some time this spring, making public appearances for two weekends, official sources have said. There will be a lot more information forthcoming, but there is one confirmed location so far: Main Place Mall, in Santa Ana, California. Events are to be …read more!

Dawn French, “the fat lady” in the upcoming POA movie has joined in the campaign against osteoporosis. Joining other celebrities such as Sir Elton John and Sean Bean(LOTR), she has designed jewellery to raise funds for the NOS Dazzler Campaign. It is estimated that this disease of the bones will affect 1 in three women …read more!

The Indonesian translation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix-or Harry Potter dan Orde Phoenix-was released at midnight Sunday. You can read about the launch which included a convoy of 15 vans from the Jakarta Post

We’ve got two additions to the Leaky/Floo family to announce today. The first is Milly, known to Leaky readers as ixchelmala, who has been sending us tips and images for a long time and is known also to go on spy missions at 1am to get photos of advertisements from her local movie theaters. She’s …read more!

According to the Baltimore Sun, Alan Rickman has been in-town filming an upcoming HBO special and seen dining in local Greek restaurant Kali’s Court Mezze. Rickman is in a break between filming the third Potter movie, PoA and the upcoming Goblet of Fire, due to begin production in late April 2004. Thanks to the MD …read more!

Roberto Sadovski of SET Magazine reports from London with a PoA set report, translated by G.V.Linares of “Harry Potter O Filme“. No, I never got a letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And I don’t come from a wizard family either. Tricks? Not even with cards. Yet, I spent a day walking the …read more!

Our partner in Potter and proprietor of the HP Lexicon, Steve Vander Ark has given The Floo Network (TFN) Web site a bit of a facelift, for those of you unfamiliar with TFN it’s the collection of sites including The Harry Potter Lexicon, Quick Quote Quills, a collection of J.K. Rowling interviews, and TLC – …read more!