A neat sum-up of Potter as we approach June 21, from US News & Word Report: Book 5 alive! Harry Potter Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix drops at 12:01 a.m. on June 21. Are you ready? A brief guide: PLACE TO BE: Author J. K. Rowling will read to a crowd of …read more!

The Sunday Mail has an article about the excerpt (SPOILER ALERT). (That quote of mine is used again, but they took out the “oh my god,” for which I want to offer them a very public Thank You. Phew.)

So reads an article New Zealand’s STUFF. Ahradsen’s Paper Plus store owner John Ahradsen said the local ASB Bank had offered to take the books and it seemed the safest place for them. At least two book stores plan to lock copies of the books in an Anglia car, as used to transport Harry Potter …read more!

Courier-Mail’s Rodney Chester looks at an extract for Book IV and brings in some of the discussion on Harry Potter For GrownUps.

Dr. Karen Brooks takes a look at hormones entering the picture and recommends Rowling do her best to keep them out of the series.

Thanks to readers who sent us this update to the Winnipeg Free Presses’ call for a reviewer to pen an overview of Book V for the Sunday Morning Edition. WE asked for the World’s Fastest Potter Review, and we got the world’s fastest response. It was amazing. E-mail entries began pouring in early Sunday morning, …read more!

An update from the Globe and Mail on the translation of Philosopher’s Stone into Latin which is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com.

Here’s what some Washington State kids say will be the final paragraph in Book V.

But not that Harry Potter The Queen’s Birthday Honours List, which was announced today, includes two names familiar to fans of JK Rowling’s series: Jim Dale, who does the hundreds of voices in the U.S. audio version, was awarded an M.B.E., and a Department for International Development natural resources and rural livelihoods advisor in Malawi …read more!

Ah, CBBC to the rescue. Daniel’s quitting rumors are rubbish.