Emma Thompson is on The Oprah Winfrey Show today in North America – no idea yet if she’ll be talking about her role as Trelawney, as she’s officially there to plug Love Actually, the amazing movie in which she stars with Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Colin Firth and others (and which contains a mention of …read more!

CBBC reports that J.K. Rowling is now the wealthiest woman in Britain, and ranks 5th on the list overall. Also on the list is Harry Potter himself…Daniel Radcliffe. Thanks, Raquel!

BBC Norfolk has posted their transcript of the chat with Chris Rankin.

It has been elsewhere reported that the JKR’s Simpsons Epsiode will be tomorrow, on the Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horrors XIV. This is not true. The episode summary for her appearance has nothing to do with Halloween, and the summary for tomorrow’s doesn’t mention it. As we reported from a BBC report a while ago, JKR’s …read more!

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is in the running to be become known as the best book in the U.K. The poll, known as The Big Read, includes Harry, Winnie the Pooh and the current front-runner, LOTR.

Thanks to everyone who sent in this all too true comic. I hope everyone had a great Halloween, and Happy Los Dios de los Muertos!

In October, it was reported : ” JK Rowling publicly said ‘Harry sustains a minimal but lasting injury in this [the sixth] book.’ It is also reported to be roughly just under the length of GoF and will most likely be done by early January. (The first draft.). We’ve got word from an irrefutable source …read more!

ExpresoHogwarts.com alerted us to the fact that an English textbook from Spain features J.K. Rowling and Harry in an exercise. It lists Rowling with literary greats such as Shakespeare, Shelley and Stevenson!

Countingdown.net has a in-depth description of the PoA trailer which will be shown with the Looney Tunes movie due out November 14th. Thanks, Jackie!

The BBC Norfolk Kids has posted a transcript from Thursday night’s web chat with Chris Rankin. Editor’s Commentary: Thank you, Martin! And Martin asked us to thank everyone who took part last night. At one point they had more than 500 people in the room!