I’ll be on Radio Five Live on BBC this evening (somewhere between 8 and 8:30 pm EST) to discuss the release of the book, fan expectation, fan rumors, and all other things “fan”. You can listen at that link (I hope!).

Today is the last day to register for Nimbus – 2003 (the first international Harry Potter symposium) at the initial rate of $99.75 – tomorrow, the registration fee goes up by thirty dollars. Hundreds of HP fans (including some well respected authors and scholars from around the world) have already registered – and the list …read more!

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets has won the award for Best Live Action Family Film from the Phoenix Film Critics Society. In addition, Emma Watson was honoured in the Best Performance by a Youth – Female category. (Thank you to Caroline for the link.)

A lot of you have been throwing around this “768” pages thing. That’s roughly what GoF was, though a Bloomsbury email is quoting that length for OotP, which is bizarre. The official information released is that it’s 255,000 words as opposed to 191,000 words in GoF. At 250 words per page (an average estimate), that’s …read more!

Amazon.co.uk is currently taking pre-orders for Order of the Phoenix at 50% off! Amazon.com in the US is also accepting pre-orders (although no price has been announced yet).

iharrypotter.net tipped us off to a BBC article about the LOCATION of said manuscript. What We Know The manuscript is under lock & key at an undisclosed location The only two people (besides J.K) who have read the book are editor Emma Matthewson (who edited from CoS onwward and the Comic Relief books) and Bloomsbury …read more!

Erupting indeed….this post will be where we track news coverage of the announcement. You can follow along with us real-time. Here’s the various articles being written: Washington Post E! Online News CNN Money Associated Press (via NY Daily News) Reuters (via SABC News) ITN Channel 5 News The Australian Financial Times Dow Jones News Service …read more!

Go here for this very handy article from Newsround detailing the production process for OotP which is now under way! Yay! [Yes, we will be erupting like this at random moments for some time.]

Here it is, folks: The book to be released on June 21, 2003, in U.S., Britain, Canada and Australia,, the book is 38 chapters long, and over one-third longer than Goblet of Fire – with quick math that’s close to 1,000 pages. That’s all of Lord of the Rings. Anyway, here you go: J.K. ROWLING’S …read more!

I must admit, I’m a bit disappointed that I haven’t found ANY information on Scholastics site under Corporate info or Kids area about the release date. However, it should be fun to watch Scholastic stock soar when US markets open this morning. Already Bloomsbury stock is quickly rising. We’ve placed the ticker symbols for both …read more!