For larger images of the covers than Bloomsbury has on their site, as well as details about the artists and more news later on today – when Scholastic releases the American cover – check out the ever-reliable CBBC’s site. Worthy of note about the covers: This is the first time Harry does not appear on …read more!

Bloomsbury seems to have posted the cover for the kids’ and adults’ versions of OoTP. Check them out!

Phew! Our donor lists are complete. If there’s a mistake, please contact us and we will fix it. ALSO – Book Aid International has published a special report on where all £14,202.93 of Leaky’s readers’ contributions went, so be sure to head over there and check it out! Thank you all, again, because I haven’t …read more!

Thanks Caitlin, for pointing us to this press release confirming that Listening Library will record book five for release in Canada and America on June 21, along with the books. LL did the recordings for the other four books, and we are waiting on confirmation that Jim Dale will once again provide the voice. We’ll …read more!

Emma Watson won the AOL Moviegoer Award for Best Supporting Actress.

The word Muggle has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. The listing (according to TLC reader George, who sent us the link) reads as follows: In the fiction of J. K. Rowling: a person who possesses no magical powers. Hence in allusive and extended uses: a person who lacks a particular skill or skills, …read more!

A press release posted on Business Wire provides details on 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.”

Sigh – you HP types have to stop having birthdays on weekends. 🙂 Happy belated birthday to Sean Biggerstaff, who turned 20 on Saturday, March 15, and whose mug we’ll be seeing for some time, we’re all sure.

Hey, just to clear something up – we were told by Scholastic some time ago that regardless of where you live, the book will be sold to you at midnight in your time zone. We haven’t repeated the question in a while, but as Scholastic is America, we’re concerned with those time zones that hit …read more!

BBC News reports on the charity auction of a signed sopy of Order of the Phoenix. The auction, which can be viewed here, currently stands at GBP 400.00 (approx. US $633.36).