Reader Spydey has sent us a link where you can listen to parts of Stephen Fry’s audio OOTP. You can order the version at the BBC Shop.

The Washington Post Express reports that Frostburg State University is now offering an honors course based on the book The Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works by Roger Highfield. The course will investigate the ways in which technology can approximate magic, and will culminate in a written and oral scientific presentation with a …read more!

Thanks Cinderz, for sending this 427K vid of Daniel Radcliffe accepting his Relly Award. For those who can’t download, he says: “Thank you for this fantastic award. This is absolutely amazing, and thank you to everybody who voted for me. I’m currently on the set of Prisoner of Azkaban, filming. It’s going to be an …read more!

Thanks to all those who sent e-mails alerting us that Dan Radcliffe won the first annual “Relly Award” for Junior Achiever this morning, on Live With Regis and Kelly.

It may not sound like it has much to do with Harry Potter, but… John Ritter, Gryffindor, (shown there at the premiere of Chamber of Secrets) died of a heart ailment overnight. A sad farewell to a fellow fan, from Team TLC.

A commentary by Daniel Drezner discusses a new Potter/religion argument currently being waged by an Islamic fundamentalist group…that Harry is part of a missionary plot to spread Christianity. Thanks, Roni!

HPANA has posted information, courtesy of www.TotallyHarryPotter.org, dispelling rumors that the Prisoner of Azkaban film would premiere in Mexican theaters on June 6, 2004.

USA Today reports: “The latest list that (Harry) is topping is 2002’s Most Challenged Books, issued by the American Library Association for Banned Books Week, Sept. 20-27.”

Snitchseeker.com is hosting The Potter Project, a chain-fanfiction event in which any Potter fan can participate. The project employs FanLib, a patent pending technology that allows participants to submit scenes and vote on which ones should be added to the fanfic script as it continues. The project will run through October 31, 2003, and along …read more!

The Croydon Guardian has posted an interesting article about a church youth worker who will be using Harry Potter to illustrate Christianity.