One Year Ago Today...

A little "Where Are We Now" for you: It was a year ago today that long-baited Harry Potter fans breathed a massive sigh of relief. After two-and-a-half long years of waiting for it, the release date for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was revealed at last, quoting these immortal words:

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JK Rowling's "First" Adult Prize

Many of you have written in to tell us and we thank you for reminding us - the WHSmith award, should JKR win it, will not be her first adult award. She won the Hugo Award in 2001 for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The Hugo Awards are not for only-adult books. However, the WH Smith award is specifically forContinued...

J.K. Rowling up for book award

J.K. Rowling and her novel "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" is up for an award from bookseller WH Smith. A spokesperson for the awards said the themes of isolation and death as Harry matures made this book a contender. Also on the short list:

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FAQ Update

I've updated the FAQ to answer an oft-asked question.

Mad-Eye Moody Cast?

Movie news site Dark Horizons is reporting that Ray Winstone has been cast as Mad-Eye Moody for Goblet of Fire. It's about GoF casting time, so this wouldn't be out of place, but still consider this a very much a rumor for now. See pictures of him here. Thanks very much to Beckie for the tipoff!

John Hurt to play Alan Clark

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!

A Squid another source for Invisibility cloaks?

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!

Record year for UK film industry

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

HP Cast to Make American Tour

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.Continued...

A lady and her diamonds

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 threeContinued...

Indonesian OOTP release

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

Two New Editors!

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 an absolute sweetheart andContinued...

Rickman Hits the Sights in Baltimore

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. ThanksContinued...

PoA Set report from SET Magazine

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 walkingContinued...

A New Look for the Floo Network!

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 - itContinued...