A little laugh for you here: Melissa from Georgia sent us a pic from her college town of Athens, and what she encountered while obeying traffic rules one recent day – a traffic sign turned into a public service ad. Click here to see it. Thanks for the chuckle, Melissa!

This morning GMTV showed different GoF trailers on Sky News and the UK Show GMTV. If you manage to catch this and can digitize it, please contact us. UPDATE: That trailer, which is almost entirely new footage, is here (if it doesn’t come right up then scroll down and click the GoF image on the …read more!

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Yes, as we said, the Goblet trailer is here and downloadable in Quicktime here (WARNING: there’s a major spoiler at the very end, that some readers have been saying they wanted to be warned about – and that’s all we’re saying about that!) We’ve already got Leaky’s trademark shot by shot and more than 200 …read more!

In a follow-up to the letter in Nature Magazine last month, three scientists from Cambridge’s Department of Plant Sciences had a response published in the current issue of that magazine. They say: [i]f the wizarding allele were dominant, rather than recessive as suggested, wizarding children such as Hermione could not be born to non-wizarding parents.

We’re once again flattered by iTunes and Apple (makers of the Harry Potter iPod): this week’s set of iTunes’s “New and Notable” podcasts includes PotterCast! Thank you, Apple! And where are those subscription links again? Gee, right here! And if you have or want to use iTunes (which we recommend!), use this link. Reminder: You …read more!

Bloomsbury, who publish the HP books in the UK, credited overseas expansion and sales of the first five Harry Potter books, not the release of Book Six, for a 12.4 percent rise in first-half pretax profit. Bloomsbury has recently expanded its publishing from the UK into the United States and Germany. Reuters reports that while …read more!

size=”-1″>About/Listen Episodes Call Vote for us! It’s that time of the week again! On PotterCast #4, we bring you a preview of the three-part Matt Lewis (Neville Longbottom) interview that will start next week; Chris Rankin joins the modcast; a clip of an interview with Chris Columbus, director of the first two Harry Potter films; …read more!

HPANA has posted a description of the upcoming Goblet trailer, expected in theaters this Friday. From what we’ve heard over here, it’s accurate. SPOILER WARNING! UPDATE: Jenna at

Jo Rowling has posted an update to the eBay situation we posted about a few days ago. In short, nine of 10 of eBay’s JKR signatures, Jo Rowling estimates, are on items she has never been near, much less autographed. JKR urged eBay to adopt a better screening policy and for Potter fans not only …read more!