The Pakistan Daily Times has an interesting editorial from columnist Kaleem Omar. The question is, what does Rowling plan to do with all the money? She’s already given up her small unheated flat in a midlands city and bought a huge manor house in the country, where she is living in baronial splendour, surrounded by …read more!

We received an article from This is Brighton & Hove about a boy named Elliott Stubbs playing a “continuity extra” in the upcoming Prisoner of Azkaban. We only have the text and we’ll post the URL as soon as it appears on the Web site. Here’s some snippets: Schoolboy Elliott Stubbs is acting out every …read more!

It looks like even The Sunday Times is getting into the spirit with a bit of Fan Fiction of their own. A reader sent us this snippet of a brief intermission between the last book and this one: The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close as Harry Potter sat …read more!

…the books about them are selling like pumpkin pasties. According to the Sunday Sun, books about the Department for Education and Skills’ controversial Standard Assessment Tests may actually outsell Harry Potter in the Northern UK.

Thanks to Lana: This saturday’s Nancy cartoon has a cute reference to all the goings on regarding the upcoming HP launch.

On May 22, 2002, the Discovery Fund For Eye Research begins it’s 10 day Seeing the Stars celebrity eyewear charity auction on eBay. Chris Columbus and the Producers of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets have generously donated a prop Howler from that film to auction. Find out more about the organiztion at their …read more!

The Miami Herald mentions that online Children’s Book Store Hedgehog Books is holding a contest to win a free copy of the book.

The Sydney Morning Herald has an article discussing the recently announced results of a survey asking what the UK’s 50 Best-Loved books by a female author are. The first Harry Potter book, Philosopher’s Stone, is in fact 13th on the list while 3 of Jane Austen’s place 1st, 6th and 7th. Thanks to Karen for …read more!

According to this article in the Independent, the recent court injunction issued in Britian has been the first time a “John Doe” order has ever been issued in that country. “To our knowledge this is the first time in this country in over 150 years that a defendant is presently unknown”, said Keith Schilling, Ms …read more!

Channel 4 in the UK has rated our Harry #35 on its list of Britons that Britons love to hate. Just how many Snapes are there in Britain?