Meetup.com along with The Leaky Cauldron on behalf of MUARI sent out a joint press release today announcing the Harry Potter MeetUp And Read-In. Please take a moment and send this release to your local newspapers. The more people who hear about MUARI, the better chance we have of capturing all the events going on …read more!

Thanks to a reader for informing us that Singapore’s Popular Bookstore will have the same contest several other countries are participating in that will send 3 kids to Royal Albert Hall in London. The same reader has said that Popular locations will be open at 7am on Saturday, June 21st to sell the book. We’re …read more!

Checking Meetup.com this morning, I’ve noticed we have over 620 people signed up for the June 20th Meetup around the world. This may sound like a lot, but only 35 of the 225 locations have 5 or more people signed up for them. Each Meetup location needs to have at least 5 people signed up …read more!

According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, local Badger Paper Mills has made 3 million pounds of what’s known as post-consumer paper for 935,000 copies of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” being published in Canada by Raincoast Books. And if Canadian readers don’t appreciate the recycled pages they’re turning – all 768 of …read more!

Tuscaloosa News has an article about local kids gearing up for book five, profiling some of the release events.

No, it’s not some representative of the church trying to ban Potter books. According to snippets from The Express sent to us by a reader, Bloomsbury rival Faber & Faber plan on releasing their own book on June 19th. It’s called Shadowmancer, written by vicar Graham Taylor, of Cloughton. The book, allegedly rejected by Bloomsbury, …read more!

Canwest News Service’s John Robson wrote a rebuttal dealing with Canadian mathematician Dr. Ivar Ekeland’s statements that Harry Potter is bad for science. (Editor’s Note: Although it’s nice to see someone rebute Ekeland, in my opinion Robson does it in a very negative way and I also disagree with many of his statements. He comes …read more!

This is London reports that JKR and JRR Tolkien are to take the top spots in the UK national survey of the top 100 books of all time when the list is whittled down to 20 books in the fall.

The Snitch has this picture of Dan, Rupert and Emma on the PoA set.

Thanks to MuggleNet for pointing us to the DarkHorizons report today stating that actor Peter Best has gotten the “small” role of Walden MacNair, the executioner of Buckbeak. However very little is known about the actor and we’re currently seeking information on him including a picture.