A visitor to the EA Games Holidze Showcase that took place at Le Parker Meridien Hotel in NYC yesterday wrote us in with this report on the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Video Game (pre-order here at The Cauldron Shop, and see the official trailer for the game at the official HP site …read more!

Brit tabloid The Sun reports today that it “may have solved one of the biggest Harry Potter mysteries – the title of the final novel about the boy wizard,” and that the book seven title is either Harry Potter and the Parseltongue Trophy or Harry Potter and the Great Revelation. Their supposition is based on …read more!

FictionAlley.org, the largest online archive of HP fanfiction, is holding a fundraiser to endow a scholarship fund for one of their former members, a teenaged writer who died of leukemia earlier this year. The site is selling wristbands (similar to the popular, yellow, Lance Armstrong variety) online and will have them available at at least …read more!

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Scholastic has announced a 20% discount on all pre-orders of HBP – which they are taking now for the first time. In addition, all pre-orders of HBP made through Scholastic will get a free printed copy of the Potter poster recently released by the company. To pre-order, you can go here, or visit our HBP …read more!

Presenting Leaky’s first-ever game, a current work in progress we like to call Chamber of Chat! This is also our first ever chat. When the folks at ISO Interactive came to us with this chat game, we had so much fun with it, we knew you would too, even though it’s not the type of …read more!

Dark Horizons has posted an item today that says there’s an issue of “HOLA” with an interview with Liz Hurley that strongly implies she will be playing Bellatrix Lestrange in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, due to start filming in Jan or Feb: “I want to have fun and when I learned …read more!

Les madames et monsieur, nous sommes fiers pour présenter Le Chaudron Baveur en Français! (Edit: I’ve been told the way to say that properly is: Mesdames et Messieurs, nous sommes fiers de vous présenter Le Chaudron Baveur,la version française de The Leaky Cauldron.) Now that I’ve massacred the French language, let’s do this properly: TLC’s …read more!

Raincoast Books, the Canadian publisher of HP, announced the winner of its cub reporter contest today. Eun Ji An of West Vancouver, 14, said on her winning entry form: “I read the five Harry Potter books that are out in two languages [English and Korean] and also listened to them in audio recording. I am …read more!

Just a little note to say Happy Birthday to OotP, which was “born” into the world two years ago today – where were you? What were you doing? What will you be doing on July 16? (Psst, go here for help if you don’t know.)