JKRowling.com says today (December 12 already in England) is Charlie Weasley’s birthday!

Our favorite author has updated her site, explaining why “No News is Good News“: I have nothing noteworthy to report, because I have been spending nearly all my time sitting in front of my computer writing, re-writing and taking the occasional break to bang my head off the desk in frustration or else rub my …read more!

We’re halfway into our GIVE A GALLEON drive and more than half our inventory is gone, so get moving – give a Galleon, get a sticker and support literacy all at once. A few of your friends from England wanted to tell you the same. They really wanted to say, nice and simply, to Give …read more!

J.K.Rowling has won a legal battle in a typosquatting claim, and will have the domains “kjkrowling.com” and “www-jkrowling.com,” currently registered to an individual in Uruguay, transferred to her. A typosquatter purposefully incorporates mispellings and common typos into domain names, to harvest hits from typists with slippery fingers. A while back a particularly seedy site boasted …read more!

Emma-Watson.net has some cool new clips from behind the scenes of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Today’s Mercury News in San Jose has a set of articles about fans and fandom, and includes a discussion of the Harry Potter fandom and fansites. The main article quotes MIT’s Dr Henry Jenkins, a longtime expert on fan behaviour: “Fandom is a community that supports grass-roots expression… [It] encourages people to grow as readers, …read more!

Harry Potter was mentioned in the comic Get Fuzzy today. Thanks to all the readers who emailed!

Representatives from J.K. Rowling’s literary agency, Christopher Little, have just informed us that there is no truth in the recent report that J.K. Rowling is a possible attendee at a Spain peace conference.

Jamie Waylett (a.k.a Vincent Crabbe) has updated his blog today with a tidbit of info on the upcoming filming of the Yule Ball, which will start soon: The set for the ball is fantastic, probably the best set in all the four films, even if I was allowed to tell you what it looked like, …read more!

(Click each pic for larger version) Every once in a while an interview comes along where little to no real interviewing happens. Sometimes the interview subjects launch into such natural, relaxed conversation that the best thing any reporter can do is sit back, press “record” and have fun. At the Prisoner of Azkaban DVD launch, …read more!