Is this Snuffles?The National Post says this Black Lab, who has been in Dog Park and Dog Show, may be tapped to play Padfoot in PoA and on.

Rex Features has some nice pics up (different from the others) of Emma Watson at the Scooby Doo premiere. One is with Tom Felton. Thanks very much to Rachel for sending these in!

Voldemort lovers (and we know you’re out there – I even know where a few of you are), we have a goody for you. Reader Thomas has sent us a picture of Christian Coulson, a.k.a Tom Riddle, in costume in Solanges’ The Maids – in which he played a maid – from his time at …read more!

Two pics have come our way in the past few days (click on ’em for larger photos): The first, from CKSLON, is a nice pic from the upcoming video game of Dumbledore. The other is from a reader whose name I lost! I apologize. But it’s the front of the HP 2002-2003 calendar, and it’s …read more!

An administrator on the discussion thread at Tom Felton’s official site confirms that Tom will appear in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Woo hoo hoo indeed! Thanks muchly to Francis for the link!

Thanks to Lisa, who sent this in from TVGuide.com: THE WAIT CONTINUES…: J.K. Rowling’s fifth Harry Potter book, The Order of the Phoenix, won’t arrive in bookstores until June 2003, USA Today reports. Rowling apparently is still writing the novel. Hurry up, already! And yet another Potter-inspired craze comes to us from USAToday.com: Adult authors …read more!

The Cuaron info below is indeed official. TLC received word from sources all over the place (all at one time…hailstorm of owls…), including an official press release from the press release wires. The text Heather sent us, we’ve just found out, is from ComingSoon – though ComingSoon’s text is the press release in near full, …read more!

Heather sends us this: Alfonso Cuaron has been signed to direct Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third movie in the Harry Potter series for Warner Bros. Pictures, it was announced today by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Motion Pictures, Warner Bros. Cuaron is best known for directing the critically acclaimed …read more!

News on the hunt for extra scenes on the DVD:: Minibreakthrough. They don’t exist. Any scene on the DVD would have to be certified by the BBFC, the British equivalent of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The BBFC’s Web site is here. The only scenes certified are those we all know about – …read more!

Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Alfonso Cuaron is indeed the new Harry Potter director. Quotage: Branagh tells Entertainment Weekly he is now out of the running. ”There was a little talk about it, but now it’s definitely not going to happen,” he said on Friday. ”I don’t know what I can say, but I think …read more!