Saturday Night Live made mention of the Harry Potter phenomenon tonight, commenting that Book Five’s print run of 8.5 million books would merit the sixth book the title: “Harry Potter and the End of Trees.”

HP Fanfic author Laura Klotz has recently published a book entitled Saving the World in Your Spare Time: The Pocket Guide to Effecting Positive Change.” The book is summarized thus: This book is designed to help anyone who wants to change the world around them but isn’t sure how to go about it. …Although primarily …read more!

I was recently doing some digging on the Simpsons episode we will be seeing next season and on this site I found a summary that excludes the plot line mentioned awhile ago from Newsround (Saying that the family goes to England to find a girl Grandpa Simpson had a wartime fling with). Read at your …read more!

No, not the quidditch one… HarryPotter.com recently added “The Staircase Game” to their “Fun and Games” section. And even more gaming news! Here’s a small blurb from Yahoo News about cross-promotion: This fall will be the first year that EA will ship “Potter” games without a film release to hang a marketing plan on. But …read more!

Scholastic has put out a release announcing that 10 lucky kids will also be flown to the big reading of Book 5 by JKR on June 26th. How to win? Write a 300-word essay on “If you could have one special power taught at Hogwarts, what would it be and why?”. You must be under …read more!

A story’s been making the rounds on the web today claiming that Dan Radcliffe was in a car accident on the M1 after 10 this morning. We’ve been in touch with sources in the UK who confirmed with Warner Bros that there’s no truth in the reports. There’s been no car accident and Dan’s been …read more!

Newsround has an exclusive story about JKR giving a reading for 4,000 very, very, very, very, very lucky HP fans. Schools can apply to have their pupils take part at the Bloomsbury Web site through May 16. The reading will take place on June 26 in London’s majestic Royal Albert Hall; Stephen Fry will also …read more!

Sounds a bit redundant when we’ve got the counter up there, but as Muggle Pride wrote in to tell us, we’re at the 50-day-mark. I don’t know about you guys, but I’m about to lose it. As the Chipmunks might say, “We can hardly stand the wait, please Ju-une don’t be late…”

From website Press of Atlantic City comes this article on the fake copies of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix currently circulating around the internet. (Note: Spoiler warning.)

Hi all, we’ve got some news from Nimbus: The deadline for fandom sponsorship has been extended through June 15. Ari Rapkin of Industrial Light and Magic has been announced as July 19’s featured luncheon speaker. Rapkin’s resume includes such movies as Jurassic Park III, Star Wars: Epsiode II and, of course, Harry Potter; her speech …read more!