Harry’s in today’s Get Fuzzy comic. Thanks everyone who emailed!

Ace movie site Dark Horizons reports today that during CNBC News last night, “it was apparently revealed that Elizabeth Hurley has been offered a part in the fifth Harry Potter Movie ‘The Order of The Phoenix’ with the character described only as an ‘evil witch.’ That would make her Bellatrix, or a very skinny Umbridge …read more!

A short while ago we reported the UK special edition of HBP was to be released in Oct; today Amazon.co.uk is listing it as Oct 3, for £21.00. The listing on the American special edition has been slightly updated to include a slipcase (like that on OotP’s, presumably) and to say that there will also …read more!

Martyne of The Unofficial Jason Isaacs Page has posted a collection of pictures of Isaacs, who plays Lucius Malfoy in the Potter films, at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Isaacs also autographed two calendars at the time, which the site will be selling on eBay for charity in the future.

This article was translated for TLC by ‘Gryffindor Lioness’ – thank you! German Yahoo reports that amazon.de in Munich announced that Germans have already put in 50,000 preorders for the English version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; the company promises the book will be delivered by July 16 with no shipping costs to …read more!

There is an email going around from a “Voldemort” suggesting that if you follow a series of steps, you will receive HBP for free. We are unsure whether it means for free on the day of release, or is purporting to give it to you early (it says you’ll have it “first”): either way don’t …read more!

Several media outlets today, including the L.A. Times, had this story about a new television program called “Lie Detector”, which will feature a cousin of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling. Based on information confirmed to them by NBC/PAX-TV the newpapaper says, “the show will profile people seeking vindication for their various claims by telling their …read more!