We mentioned this earlier in the week, but we didn’t say who it was for. Well, NBC’s “Weekend Today” show is still looking for die hard fans for their segment. They’re looking for more adult fans than young’uns. If you know ANY diehard fans who dress up on a regular basis (cosplay? just for fun) …read more!

Mr. Dale just sent us an email announcing this great honor. In the 2003 Royal Birthday Honours List, Queen Elizabeth II will honour Jim Dale with an MBE Award – Member in the Order of the British Empire. Quite fitting since he’s recently finished reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in the …read more!

Here’s a great article that looks at all the books ABOUT the Harry Potter series.

Thanks to readers who sent us this interesting bit of number analysis done by Entertainment Weekly: 192 MILLION: Estimated worldwide sales of the four previous Potter books. 8.5 MILLION: Number of first-print copies of Phoenix set to go on sale June 21. $3-5 MILLION: Amount spent by marketing Muggles on the publicity of Phoenix. 1.3 …read more!

CBBC Newsround has done a bit of a roundup of Harry Potter events all over the UK.

Columnist Jacqueline Mroz has written an article on what to read once you’re done with OotP. She even suggests some fanfic.

Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe bookstore owner Linda Spiegel refuses to sell OotP books because of how Raincoast treated her when she put Goblet of Fire out for sale two days earlier than anywhere else. Article in The Star.

A fascinating article from Jewsweek, a Webzine for American Jews, about how some are using the Harry Potter series as a teaching tool for Judaism.

According to this press release, the signature on the first and only US signed copy of Order of the Phoenix was penned in J.K. Rowling’s study Wednesday night and flown over to New York last night. It is currently being kept in a locked box at a secret location pending its pending its presentation to …read more!

The Orlando Sentinel has an article interviewing some college-age Potter fans. Nice to see people catching on that adults DO in fact enjoy the series.