Highland News has a great update on the filming of Azkaban including information on Buckbeak.

Thanks to readers who sent us this interesting bit of number analysis done by Entertainment Weekly: 192 MILLION: Estimated worldwide sales of the four previous Potter books. 8.5 MILLION: Number of first-print copies of Phoenix set to go on sale June 21. $3-5 MILLION: Amount spent by marketing Muggles on the publicity of Phoenix. 1.3 …read more!

Columnist Jacqueline Mroz has written an article on what to read once you’re done with OotP. She even suggests some fanfic.

A fascinating article from Jewsweek, a Webzine for American Jews, about how some are using the Harry Potter series as a teaching tool for Judaism.

According to this press release, the signature on the first and only US signed copy of Order of the Phoenix was penned in J.K. Rowling’s study Wednesday night and flown over to New York last night. It is currently being kept in a locked box at a secret location pending its pending its presentation to …read more!

The Orlando Sentinel has an article interviewing some college-age Potter fans. Nice to see people catching on that adults DO in fact enjoy the series.

We’re here. 3 long years later and we’re finally down to the last 7 days. It’s been a fun ride though quite somber, as J.K. Rowling has told us it’s the end of an era for Harry and just the beginning of deaths. One thing that is sorely lacking from the launch of Goblet of …read more!

On Sunday, June 15th it appears CBS’ 60 Minutes will be replaying their September 12, 1999 interview with Rowling. This interview is particularly interesting because it shows some of her own drawings for the various characters in the book as well as her filing system which consists of lots and lots of boxes of notebooks. …read more!

According to the CBBC, famed teen singer Charlotte Church said she almost got the part of Hermione in the Harry Potter movies but it was decided she was too old.

Yet another Scholastic Winner profiled in their local paper. Thomas Pardee’s essay stood apart from the rest because it injected a bit of humor – which was needed to offset some of the other more serious and emotional essays.