(SPOILER ALERT) An article in this morning’s LA Times (Free registration required) looks at all the miscommunication surrounding yesterday’s release of an audio clip for Order of the Phoenix. Fans first stumbled across the audio excerpt Wednesday through America Online and the Leaky Cauldron site, then began posting comments on the clip, Anelli said. The …read more!

The St. Petersburg Times profiled Scholastic Contest Winner David Dawson, who wrote a heartwarming – and wrenching – essay about wishing he had the power to cure a broken heart after the death of his mother.

The Chicago Tribune has a very interesting article about what other authors and writers think of the Harry Potter books from Mary Higgins Clark to David McCullough to Julia Alvarez to Louis Sachar. Fascinating.

Constant Vigilance. I dislike posting these links because I disagree with what they represent. But the reason I post WorldNetDaily’s rabble-rousing that Harry Potter is a method of recruiting for the occult. J.K. Rowling has said time and time again that her story has nothing to do with neo-Pagan theology. It is fiction and is …read more!

Scholastic Winner Louisa George was also briefly profiled by her local TV station, KIDK.

We have taken down the entire post that deals with the sneak peek as to erase the comments, which also infringed on JKR’s property. If you read the snippet, DO NOT post bits of it in our comments section – not only will it be deleted, your IP will be banned without warning. We apologize …read more!

Thanks to reader Caitlin for sending us this: 9:00 PM Friday, 20 Dateline NBC 60 min. “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling is interviewed by Katie Couric. (VCR Plus+ 98846)

Just a PSA thanks to a reader and confirmation from the store’s manager – The Waterstone’s bookshop in Camden High Street, London NW1 has decided not to open at midnight on 20/21 June after all. The staff felt that it would not be safe for children to be there then with so many bars and …read more!

8 yr old Scholastic Contest Winner Daniel Boyce was profiled for his winning essay in this Ventura County Star article.

The San Diego Union-Tribune also has an article about the tight security on the Book V release.