According to The Oregonian, Multnomah County libraries have ordered over 700 copies of OotP to meet the over 1000 people on a waiting list for the book. Find out how you can help your library if you buy an extra book or two.

A reader emailed us an article from the Winnipeg Free Press who are looking for a enterprising 14-yr old to write an 800-word review of OotP. They’ll get you a free copy of the book – it will be waiting for you at the McNally Robinson Booksellers on Grant Avenue. They’ll even pay you for …read more!

Thanks to the Winky Webmistress from French Harry Potter site Potter World Online, we’ve discovered an interesting snippet about Book V on site of French publisher Gallimard. Highlight to read: The site seems to allege that J.K. Rowling may have told the publishers something: Harry may find love. Here’s a rough translation from Babelfish. Anyone …read more!

The Waco Tribune has an article about plans for the Lone Star State and Book V. Incidently, we’ve only got two listings of Book V events in Texas, aside from Hastings, Borders and Barnes & Noble which are all book chains. If you know any we’re missing, please let us know.

Alas, according to Newsround the role of Cho Chang is joining Oliver Wood as a no-show in the next movie. No love for Harry until Goblet of Fire.

We’ve just received a release that confirms the rumored date of June 4, 2004 for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban‘s release date. Now, this came through the US instead of the UK, and confirmation with WB is still pending, but this is the first official anything we’ve received on that date. So pencil …read more!

There is a rumor on the Web that Dan Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint will be making a June 21/Book V appearance – we’ve received word from a couple of places (including WB) that says this is not true. The word is that the movies are not to mix up with the books (and …read more!

The Sun seems to be back on track with legit news – in this morning’s paper they have a picture of Michael Gambon on the set of PoA – complete with a beard-brella to keep his shaggy whiskers dry. Not a good picture for seeing how he will actually look…but it’s the first picture we’ve …read more!

Borders Group Inc put out a press release today announcing their store plans for the Book V release. All Borders stores will be open past 12am with some great plans – Herbology lessons in Indiana, Diagon Alley in Missouri and the Great Hall in Massachusetts. We’ve started a list of book chains around the world …read more!

According to the National Post, Canadian mathematician Dr. Ivar Ekeland blames Harry Potter, at least in part, for the decline in children’s interest in the sciences. Ekeland “says the magic and sorcery glorified by the popular books discourage children from wanting to understand the real world through science.” The article notes that mathematician Jonathan Borwein …read more!