HP movie actress Fiona Shaw (Petunia Dursley) did not win the Tony Award this evening; she was nominated for playing the title role in Medea, but Vanessa Redgrave was awarded for her turn in Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Having seen both performances, I think it’s worthwhile to note that both were Tony-worthy; …read more!

You’ll notice that with the creation of our new Floo Network comes a new set of domains. First, the Harry Potter Lexicon has acquired a new domain name – http://www.hp-lexicon.org. You can now find Quick Quotes at http://www.quick-quote-quill.org and the Hogwarts Galleries at http://www.hogwarts-gallery.org. Be sure to change your links and bookmarks!

As many may remember, when Jim Dale read Goblet of Fire, he had claimed to have done 125 different voices. Well, in the recent Wall Street Journal article he says he’s done 134. In fact, his Web site has recently been updated to mention the same as well. So what? Well if you think about …read more!

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal contained an article on the audio book version of OotP. You must subscribe to the WSJ to view the article there, but here are some of the relevant quotes. The recorded book lasts 26 hours and 30 minutes — the sports equivalent of attending more than nine Major League Baseball games. …read more!

Ananova reports that tomorrow night’s television program “The Importance of Being Morrissey” will feature an interview given by JK Rowling about her favorite singer. The show will air on Channel 4 in the UK, at 11:15pm.

Sotheby’s has announced intentions to auction more first-edition Potters. The details as they provide them are: 455 Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Bloomsbury, 1997 8vo, FIRST EDITION, original pictorial boards, erased ownership marks on front paste-down, head and foot of spine bumped, corners slightly chipped, publisher’s binding faults There are two raised …read more!

“Billboards. Baseball parks. A countdown in Times Square. Scholastic, Inc., the U.S. publisher of J.K. Rowling’s mega-selling children’s series, has planned a $3 million-$4 million marketing campaign, more than doubling its budget for the release of the last Potter book, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” in 2000,” reports CNN.com. One might ask why …read more!

Hey all – as you might have noticed, we’ve undergone a bit of a redesign. You’ll see above that we are now part of The Floo Network, the most exciting thing to ever happen to this site. The Floo Network is composed of four sites: The Harry Potter Lexicon, run by the incomparable Steve van …read more!

The Canadian run of HP5 is complete.

Thanks Christopher, for pointing us to this USA Today article, which discusses the Potter audience as it ages, and expectations for Phoenix among that population. Quotage: Erin Meyers, 18, of Tyler, Texas, is excited, but she won’t be wielding a wand on June 21. Having begun the series at 15, the incoming Emory University freshman …read more!