Yesterday’s Hartford Courant article about fanfic and Nimbus – 2003 showed up today in papers in Toronto, Ontario and Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Thanks Britta, for sending us this link to Yahoo!’s story about religious opposition to HP muted as hype for the book increases.

Check out WNBC’s load of Potter-related stories and activities: Harry Potter Interactive A Wizardly ‘Harry Potter’ Quiz WNBC’s coverage of the New York embargo / Daily News saga

No, not TODAY – but TODAY IN NEW YORK. That’s the show (still NBC) that I’ll be on tomorrow morning if things stay on track – check out that link for a tease of the story. Looks like it’ll be at 6:15am, and you can only catch it in New York City, but we’ll post …read more!

Special shout-out to the writer of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel’s piece on HP5, for these paragraphs: Translation: Nerds, nerds everywhere. Take a drive past any of Fort Wayne’s major bookstores around midnight Friday and you’ll be able to see scores of J.K. Rowling fans proudly waving wands, fluttering capes and fastening their glasses together with …read more!

Ananova reports on HP5’s selling status in e-commerce.

The Sacramento Bee has an article today about the run-up to midnight on Friday. The article is incredibly comprehensive, discussing the books themselves, the fandom, Nimbus – 2003, discussion groups like Harry Potter for Grownups, and of course, The Leaky Cauldron. Quoted in the article is Madeline “Flourish” Klink (who sent the url to us), …read more!

IGN has the second part of their Jim Dale interview up, in which he speaks of his brief stint in the military, and his big break. Check it out.

According to Reuters, Warner Bros. will release Goblet of Fire in November 2005 and Order of the Phoenix 18 months later.

According to The Gazette, a Wal-Mart in Montreal accidently put out copies of Book V a little too early and several people managed to get copies.