Just a reminder that per a JKR chat back in 2001 and the timeline on the Chamber of Secrets DVD, today is Ron Weasley’s birthday! We at TLC are pleased to wish him a very happy 24th!

Check out the cover of Forbes magazine, featuring everyone’s favorite cover billionaire, J.K. Rowling (who, it must be said, brings much better hair to the billionaire club than her fellow, Donald Trump). Thanks very much to Sirius Kase for sending this in!

Yesterday, I was lucky enough to be shown a sneak preview of the redesign of HarryPotter.com that’s debuting in about a month – it’s darker and cooler and dispenses with most of the notion that these are kids’ movies deserving a kids’ site. Here’s what you can expect: The Marauder’s Map, which on the site …read more!

Since its debut about three months ago, Azkaban.com has received over 300,000 sightings of Sirius Black, WB tells us. Maybe they’ll find him soon…

Just in case you weren’t positive, we’ve had confirmation from official channels that the pic of Wormtail is indeed from the movie. 🙂 In related news, reader Rob tells us that today Timothy Spall’s birthday – so have a Happy 47th, Wormtail!

A reader sent us a first look at Wormtail! While this hasn’t been confirmed through the studio it looks spot-on with the tone and style we’ve seen. Ew, wow, and thanks!

Empire Online reports that the UK Film Council has honored filmmakers between the ages of 7 and 18 for their digital short films. The panel of judges included two faces familiar to Harry Potter fans – Kenneth Branagh and Emma Watson.

Figures.com has added an article to its site to accompany the photos from the New York Toy Fair that they posted last week. In addition to the figures we’ve seen so far, they’re releasing a set of four owls on perches, “fashion” Harry and Hermione, a set of Trio figures, a Zonko’s Joke Wand and …read more!

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