Rita Skeeter’s Scoop got some great pictures of the interior of the CoS DVD and a screenshot from a game. Click here to see disc one, or disc two.

Thanks Jody, for sending in this scan of Scholastic’s ad for Book 5. It’s hard to tell, but the pages might have been extended by width to fit the book. We’ll try and find out.

Our reader Laurie tells us that thus far Borders Books had 203,579 reserve requests for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. We don’t know if that’s official – mark this as rumor please – but wow anyway.

Thanks to Cindy for scanning this Entertainment Weekly picture of the CoS DVD ad for us.

IGN.com has published a review of the CoS DVD. Said the reviewer: “Easily the biggest complaint about the Sorcerer’s Stone DVD is that you had to play stupid games just to access the deleted scenes on the DVD. Thankfully, Warner has listened to the complaints and all of the special features are easily accessed in …read more!

Check out Road Runner for news of a Harry Potter fan who paid $8,000 for (but apparently will not receive until publication) an author-signed copy of the unreleased fifth book. (Scroll down to “‘Harry Potter’ Fan Buys Unreleased Book” for story.)

Yes, BK and I are alive and safe, and back in the States. 🙂 Thanks to everyone who noted their concern. We picked a bad time to travel, admittedly, but we could not have had better hosts than our UK friends. We had a wonderful, wonderful time. Soon, we will have pics of our trips …read more!

iHarryPotter.net linked to an article in The Scotsman about the non-NHS midwife that JKR used for David’s delivery last week. Midwife Debs Purdue didn’t say much about the birth itself, to protect JKR’s privacy, but she did say that the labour was short. As this editor is about to take her second trip through the …read more!

This is Hertfordshire reports that the construction strike, which was due to take place tomorrow, has been called off as an agreement has been reached. PoA filming will continue as usual. Thanks to Scott for the link.

Coming Soon has a brief article on how the the powers behind the Harry Potter films have supposedly been concerned about their young stars growing out of their roles before they get all the movies made (as reported by columnists Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith). Says Emma Watson, “I’ve grown loads, and so has …read more!