The Daily Mail on Sunday You Magazine recently celebrated 25 years in publication and featured “25 Women We Love.” Included in this list were Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, actress Emma Thompson (Professor Trelawney), and actress Julie Walters (Molly Weasley). Of JKR the magazine noted: Our admiration for J K Rowling is not just based …read more!

For some time we have been telling you about the many new Harry Potter items you can expect to see this spring and summer. Today, the first wave of new products from NECA, who hold the North American license to Harry Potter items, is now available in our Cauldron Shop, your Harry Potter shopping one …read more!

The May 8 edition of Film Music Weekly contains a new interview with Nicholas Hooper about his score he composed for the upcoming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Recorded in March and April at the famed Abbey Road Studios in London, England, the music for the fifth Harry Potter film will again …read more!

In an effort to crack down on pirated copies of major film releases, Warner Bros. has decided to halt preview screenings in Canada of a number of their summer films including Oceans Thirteen and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Reuters reports, the decision was made after WB became “frustrated with unauthorized camcording …read more!

Jim Dale, narrator of the US audio book editions of the Harry Potter novels will be hosting the midnight release party of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in New York City. Held at the Union Square Barnes and Noble store, Jim Dale will be reading excerpts from the previous six Harry Potter novels at …read more!

It would seem this fine spring day will bring some news from J.K.Rowling, as she has now updated her F.A.Q section with a bit about young Mr. Malfoy, his Patronus, confirmation about the exact date of birth for Lord Voldemort, and interestingly, we learn that Myrtle was indeed a Ravenclaw and Tonks is a proud …read more!

Earlier we reported that many of the book retailers such as Borders, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon were experiencing large and very brisk pre-sales of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Today that is quite evident as Amazon.com has announced they now have over one MILLION pre-orders already for the last Harry Potter novel. This …read more!

First, have you hear the news? We’re going on tour! And doing live shows with Harry and the Potters! Check it out! And hear more about it right now on our 88th PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast, is now online: To listen, just hit the “Play” button on the right side of the page (—>), …read more!

In an effort to meet as many of you as humanly possible during this incredible summer, we are proud to present…the PotterCast Summer of 7 TOUR! The three hosts from PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast, are going to be traveling the Pacific Southwest in half of June and through part of the midwest in July, …read more!

That’s our new Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows trivia game/countdown, available for use on your Web site/MySpace/whatever (for LJ, use the “HTML” option and pick “Embed Media”). This was supposed to be out a few days ago but we’ve all been playing with the spinning book instead of working on making this announcement. This …read more!