PA News reports that an auction of first editions of the HP books raised £7,000 for chariyy tody. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire fetched a total of £7,340 with half the proceeds in aid of ActionAid and the BBC’s …read more!

From The Sun comes a “sneak preview [of] the giant purple Knight Bus”! (Thanks to iHP for the link.) I should probably also mention that there is a huge spoiler for a key PoA plot point in the article …

It appears that filming on the third film may have already begun, if these images from WireImage are any indication. (Thanks to Mike for the link.) In addition, Coming Soon reports on an article from the L.A. Times which states that director Alfonso Cuarón was unavailable for comment regarding his “Original Screenplay” nomination for Y …read more!

Scroll to the bottom of this FoxNews article and you’ll see that Scholastic is reporting that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will be 896 pages long. That’s 164 more than GoF (thanks Flavia for pointing out that the press release erroneously states that the hardcover GoF is 752 pages, when it is …read more!

We’ve heard from Mary GrandPre’s camp that she’s been signed to do the cover spread and the individual chapter openers for Order of the Phoenix. We at TLC are looking forward to seeing what amazing representations of Harry’s world she creates this go-round.

Thanks Gary, from The Snitch, for sending us this link to a possible pic of the Knight Bus. If this is not the Knight Bus, someone went to massively stupid lengths painting a double-decker bus that “violent purple” that’s described in the book…

Cheryl Klein, Assistant Editor of Arthur A. Levine Books (an imprint of Scholastic, Inc.), is scheduled to be the keynote speaker for the Luncheon at Nimbus – 2003 in Orlando, Florida, on Saturday, July 19, 2003. Klein has worked on the U.S. editions of the HP books and is involved in the pre-publicatoin process for …read more!

Stockhouse reports that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will have a first printing of 6. 8 million copies, an all-time United States publishing record.

The Academy Award nominations were announced this morning, and HP3 director Alfonso Cuarón was given a nod for Best Writing of an Original Screenplay for his film Y Tu Mamá También. The film is not up for Best Foreign Language Film. (I saw it this weekend and it was well-worth a writing nod, though parents …read more!

French & Saunders (the team behind AbFab and other brilliant British comedy) will be doing a parody of the HP films. It’s set to air as part of BBC1’s Comic Relief night on March 14, and will be directed by Adrian Edmondson of The Young Ones and Bottom. The send-up will be called Harry Potter …read more!