color=”blue”>J K Rowling has given birth to a boy. The baby – named David Gordon Rowling Murray – was born at the new Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh. Rowling’s publicist Nicky Stonehill said: “Both mother and baby are doing well.” Ms Stonehill would not give any further details, but confirmed Rowling and the baby – her …read more!

Warner Home Video announced the launch of “Unlock the Chamber of Secrets,” an online sweepstakes and movie scene trading card competition available to fans in the United States and other select countries beginning March 28. Fans can log on at http://www.harrypotter.com/secrets to enter the sweepstakes and have a chance to win one of many prizes, …read more!

The following report comes from Jennifer S., who caught some filming at King’s Cross this weekend: I heard a rumour about filming at King’s Cross train station in London awhile back. It was supposedly taking place on Sunday March 23, 2003 at 7am. On Sat, March 22, I happened to be going to London and …read more!

The New York Times has a brief Q&A with PoA director Alfonso Cuarón. The HP-focused quotes include: AC: I was unfamiliar with the Harry Potter universe, but I read the books, and I saw the potential. Thematically, it’s actually very close to ”Y Tu Mamá También.” Harry Potter is about finding your own identity, and …read more!

Happy birthday to David Thewlis, who turned 40 yesterday, and Gary Oldman, who turns 45 today.

Bloomsbury has created eCards so you can share the UK/International covers of OoTP with friends and family. Thanks, Alan, for letting us know!

In the next hour, I will be connecting up with Melissa to begin a whirlwind tour around London. We have plans to visit Book Aid, Sotheby’s, the Christopher Little Agency, and the CBBC Newsround set. I’ll be taking loads of pictures and should be returning to the states tomorrow barring any travel issues. More to …read more!

EW has a brief article about the kids’ and adults’ covers that will be on the front of many of the non-US releases, and notes that: Scholastic could wrap the tome in discarded newsprint and it would still sell out its hardcover print run of 8.5 million copies.

This afternoon, TLC spoke with a representative for Mary GrandPre (who is currently on the west coast of the US on a book tour for work in Plum) about Mary’s work on OoTP. Mary has already finished all her art for Book 5, including the front cover, which was made public today, the back cover, …read more!

Thank you to our friends at BBC, who sent us this large image of the The American Cover, which is also in their coverage of the covers. It’s very…different. Harry’s grown quite a bit over the summer, hasn’t he! It’s also spooky and gives us very little to wonder about plot-wise compared to the other …read more!