Thanks Laura, for sending us this snippet from this week’s new Entertainment Weekly about Book 5, or the lack thereof: WAIT PROBLEM: For Potter fans, it’s a torture worthy of the dungeons of Azkaban. Two full years have passed since the release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and now there are rumblings …read more!

Thanks Michael, for this rundown of the pics in the 2003 HP Calendar (which he won, and which is not yet available in stores!): Cover- Doby Telling Harry to not go back to Hogwarts. Inside Front Cover- A picture of Hogwarts. January-Gilderoy Lochart and Harry getting their picture taken at Flourish and Blott’s. February- Ron …read more!

Congratulations to Fiction Alley, TLC editor Heidi Tandy’s uber-fanfic site, on celebrating its year anniversary today. I finally (after much bashing on the head by Heidi 🙂 signed up over there and whoo…I’ve never seen such a voluminous collection and expansive community. But the cutest thing about it has to be the email I received …read more!

Happy Birthday, Harry Potter and JK Rowling! (since it’s already July 31 in the UK.)

To clarify on the post below: R/H and H/G mean Ron/Hermione and Harry/Ginny – in other words, if you care about who Ron and Harry and Hermione and Ginny end up dating during and after Hogwarts, those are the “ships” the SQ supports. It’s not exclusive to those and not all (not nearly all, actually) …read more!

News from the fanfiction world: An HP FF site that actively works for children’s literacy, The Sugar Quill, just made themselves over, so it’s a good time to go check them out. We don’t usually talk about fanfiction here, and do plugs even less, but I think SQ is an important site in the fandom, …read more!

Why thank you Lydia, for this fantastic page that contains Christian Coulson pics from his stint as Arturo Ui. Christian, sorry to drag out the yearbook…but that’s what you get when you become an evil overlord…

To be take in conjunction with large quantities of salt, at least until we get further notice. A fan on Countingdown.com posted that he heard a radio show announce that the fifth book will officially be out in June 2003. I have severe, severe doubts that this is official…but hey, what do I know about …read more!

More art, this time from the wall calendar! Thanks so much, Kyle!

And another 2003 calendar pic! Thanks to reader Travis for sending it! Click to make it bigger.