The Lexicon has received information that may reveal the identity of someone mentioned at the end of HBP via initials. (For the unspoiled, we’ll refrain from posting them.) It should be noted that this, while it comes from a reliable source, is still rumor until confirmed or denied by Jo & Co. It is, however, …read more!

Listen/Subscribe / Call in/contact / Leave voicemail The transcripts to the first PotterCast and the special Potter/MuggleCast are now up! For Show #1, click here; for our special episode with MuggleCast, click here. The PotterCast transcripts will, from now on, be done for us by the new team of PotterCast Transcription Elves: Jennifer, Jonathon, Pascal, …read more!

We’d just like to send our thoughts and prayers to our readers in Louisiana and Mississippi, as they come under Hurricane Katrina’s destructive eye. Please feel free to use the comments below to check in with each other, and please, let us know that you’re all right. If you’d like to donate to help the …read more!

Terry Gilliam is interviewed in the September 2, 2005 issue of Entertainment Weekly, and mentions projects that have passed, and those that he’s developed and worked on. Interviewer Gillian Flynn noted that JK Rowling wanted Gilliam for the Harry Potter films, and Gilliam replied: I was reading the script as I was flying to Los …read more!

Marilyn Manson took a shot at Harry Potter when he accepted a “Kerrang!” award, the Sun reports. He said: “I get blamed for being bad but this kid is practicing witchcraft from a very early age which is totally unacceptable.” Thanks MN! Note: Mature content (ads) at the link

French magazine le NouvelObs has published an article about HP fanfic that quotes from TLC editor Heidi Tandy: “Heidi Tandy explains this popularity by the ease with which people can participate: “More than an litterary ambition, Harry’s adventures drive its readers to write. They are so fascinating, that it is impossible to just read them—you …read more!

WB has just confirmed that the London premiere of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire will be Nov. 6, while the US one will be Nov. 12 in New York City.

Today’s Miami Herald notes that rhapdophobia is an unreasonable fear of magic wands. Guess that explains the Dursleys?

There’s a new, surprise edition of Leaky’s PotterCast and MuggleNet’s MuggleCast available tonight. After the latest kerfuffle (the iTunes outCast episode!), we decided to join forcesfor a special tell-all in which we reveal some big secrets: what really happened with iTunes and what we – gasp – really think of each other. We hope you …read more!

Tom Felton, who plays Draco Malfoy, took part in a carp fishing tournament this weekend (video interview here at the site of the World Junior Carp Tournamnet, pictures here), in which he said he’ll do the HP films as long as they let him: “I’ll keep doing it as long as they want me to. …read more!