Jenna from DanRadcliffe.com and Page from DanRadcliffe.co.uk reported today that an article in Teen Hollywood.com regarding Dan’s parents’ purported concern regarding his safety in Prague was “totally untrue”. Here is what Dan’s representative had to say about it: This is a totally fabricated story, with not one grain of truth in it. Firstly, due to …read more!

A team of librarians in Henderson, Nevada spent 100 hours reading aloud last week, as they tried to break a world record set by Australian librarians, according to USAToday. It took the group 72 hours to read five Harry Potter novels. The rest of the time was spent reading westerns, romances and mysteries.

Quick reminder: the “Ask Jo” contest ends tonight at midnight – there are currently 112 pages of questions, and figuring a (very) low average of three questions per user…that’s at least 3-4,000 queries. Yikes. And that’s not counting 33 more pages on another thread. So, this is your last chance to add your question to …read more!

We know there’s been a tremendous amount of stories saying JKR has finally announced or said or something that there won’t be e-books of HP – thank you for the many e-mails. We haven’t posted this because there’s not much news in it, seeing as there’s never been any indication e-books were a possibility and …read more!

TLC attended yesterday’s unveiling of Scholastic’s 30-day countdown clock at its New York City store. Kids from a nearby elementary school gathered around the huge Half-Blood Prince display and answered trivia questions posted to them by Arthur Levine, the main editor of the Scholastic edition of Harry Potter, and Barbara Marcus, the executive vice president …read more!

HP Editor Arthur Levine and Barbara Marcus, executive vice president of Scholastic, unveiled an official 30-day countdown clock today at the Scholastic store in NYC, and TLC was there. Stay tuned, because we’re working on our interview footage and pictures to bring you in a special report tonight. In the meantime check out a picture …read more!

We’ve just received an update from NBC letting us know that Katie Couric’s interview with Jo Rowling will air on July 17 on Dateline and July 18 on Today. More details about Today’s HBP week as we go.

Amazon has announced that its preorders of HBP have soared past the half-million mark, all the way to 560,000. That’s more than one book for each minute in a year. (Find all versions from five different countries here at the Cauldron Shop). Source: BusinessWire.

We’ve received word from an NBC rep who assured us that the Rowling-Couric interview is tentatively scheduled Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday the week of July 11, though that may easily change. The interview is taking place today in Scotland and seems to be planned to air to go with a whole Harry Potter themed week …read more!

TLC was able to obtain a copy of the injunction granted to J.K. Rowling regarding disclosure of the contents of book six (read the intial story here); you can read the PDF here (but make sure you have Adobe Reader so you can open the document). The order is broader than the original newspaper articles …read more!