The Chicago Sun-Times reports that a well-known scam artist has picked Harry Potter as his latest selling device. Past victim? Beanie Babies…

I only discovered this tonight, but someone made a Live Journal RSS Feed of TLC. (And apparently we have had it since May!) Thank you, whoever did it, I find it very useful! If you have an LJ, you just friend the TLC LJ, and every time we update it will post a link to …read more!

A lot of you have asked on comments and email why we haven’t yet reviewed OotP, so I thought I’d address it. The simple answer: Time. Our lives have not calmed down as much as we expected them to after OotP came out. A callous truth is that we can take advantage of this being …read more!

A while back, we posted a story about Harry Potter in Braille, and you all wondered how to donate to the National Braille Press.A wonderful lady named Cheryl saw your queries and contacted the NBP, calling HP fans a “great and generous group” and inquiring after donations. If you’d like to donate to this wonderful …read more!

Vietnam released Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on Monday, making the country the first in the world to put out an authorized translation. In an interesting twist, it will be released as a 15-part series. The much-anticipated book is being released as a 15-part series, for about 30 cents an installment, so …read more!

Michael Handelzalts questions the reading habits of Harry Potter and crew in this article from Haaretz.com.

Heidi’s been nice enough to keep us posted on what’s going on at Nimbus. First off, Nimbus was featured on CNN News this morning! Also, banners made by Gena Priest went for over $1100 and a bidding war ensued over the padfoot banners – in the end one went for $420 and the artist agreed …read more!

Early word is that the PoA “footage” shown at Comic Con wasn’t actual footage at all: It featured Dan Radcliffe and Alfonso Cuaron talking briefly about PoA. This from Meg: All they really talked about was the cast and the new things appearing such as “quidditch in the rain and hippogriffs”. As happy as I …read more!

I’m updating straight from Nimbus 2003, where the fans are a plenty, the robes are flowing and the Potter is in full swing. I’ve attended three panels so far this morning, and they’ve all been fascinating. The first was “Canon, Interpretation and the Alternate Universe: Navigating the Fandom Safely,” with panelists Debra Duncan (literary essayist), …read more!

Thanks to all of you who answered our call for a transcript of the J.K. Rowling Dateline Interview. We recieved about 20 different copies and have edited them all down to what we think is the correct one. It appears in this reworked version we have several new bits of canon missed in the first …read more!