Scholastic.com’s ‘Shrieking Shack’, a feedback section, has returned to the site, this time asking readers who they think the half-blood prince is. Follow the link to submit your opinion.

Update 1/13: The Sun calls us a “genuine fans” Web site in dealing with the scam. Update 1/11: Today Monsters and Critics talked to editor Heidi about the scam as well: The Cauldron received over two-dozen emails from fans who had stumbled on the, what is sometimes called, phishing site. Phishing is when Web sites …read more!

Jamie Waylett (aka Crabbe) has updated his blog with more of his funniest emails, which were such a big hit last time: 11/ Are you and Josh brothers?…p.s. he is the one who plays Goyle. 12/ It says on you site that you were born on the 21st of July, 1989, so how old are …read more!

Update, 1/10: The site is closed. We’ve had a number of reports in the past day or so about a website that is allegedly selling electronic book versions of the five released Harry Potter books, as well as an electronic book of Book Six, which we all know hasn’t been released yet. We’re not linking …read more!

JKRowling.com tells us that Jan. 9 is Prof. Severus Snape’s birthday!

Alan Rickman, who plays Severus Snape in the HP films, has signed on to play the voice of Marvin in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, written by Douglas Adams, directed by Garth Jennings, and due out this year. Marvin will be played by HP actor Warwick Davis (Professor Flitwick). Thanks Julie and all who …read more!

Some sadly eerie news via the Swedish Rowling Fan Club site – The swedish paper Aftonbladet writes today that they have found pages from the Swedish version of OotP (Harry Potter och Fenixorden) in the ruins after the tsunami struck a hotel in Khao Lak in Thailand. As the article says, “En bit från en …read more!

PoA was selected the most popular movie of the year by Yahoo! Movies, beating out such film sas Shrek 2, The Incredibles and Spider-Man 2. Not bad!

Thanks to Jennna at DanRadcliffe.com, who sent these pics along (which we were able to edit/post at a time she could not), we present to you some shots of the filming of one of the Trio’s scenes and of the second task in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, sent in by a reader …read more!

Thanks to all who emailed! (We were partying for New Year’s and not at our computers.) The new wizard of the month at JKRowling.com is: Derwent Shimpling (1912 – present) Ate an entire Venemous Tentacula for a bet and survived, though is still purple. Thanks for the many emails letting us know the News and …read more!