Ananova reports on how JK Rowling and Warner Brothers are appealing against a court ruling on unlicensed Harry Potter books. Harry Potter and James Bond look set to spearhead a cinema renaissance and push audience numbers to their highest level for three decades, newspapers have said. (From Yahoo News UK.)

An article from the Deseret News reports on how a Harry Potter-themed camp is helping children make the transition from elementary school to junior high. (Thanks to Rowen for the link.) Bart from website de Lekke Ketel lets us know that the soundtrack to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets will be released on …read more!

Click here for a scan of the short Entertainment Weekly article on HP from the magazine’s fall 2002 preview (a piece I recommend to any film buffs), sent to us by Banning (thanks!). The text is below, and was sent to us by , the text of which is below (sent to us by Leila): …read more!

Reader Adam sends us this link to an article from the Florida Sun-Sentinel entitled “Harry Potter and the Curse of Silence”: Where have you gone, Harry Potter? The nation turns its lonely eyes to you. Make that the world. J.K. Rowling’s series of fantasy novels about a kiddie wizard fighting evil at a boarding school …read more!

From the Times Online comes this story of a couple’s hope to establish a real Hogwarts: There is no express from Platform 9¾, no owls and no Nimbus 2000, but in many other respects a tiny cottage in a forest clearing in Ireland is the real-life version of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and …read more!

Seems the general press is just picking up that the often-compared-to-HP Lemony Snicket series, A Series of Unfortunate Events, is being made into a movie – we reported it a month and a half ago. 🙂

Thanks Nick, for this amusing error from the summary of PoA on the back of the paperback CoS: I just wanted to report a book error that I spotted while reading the Chamber of Secrets these past few days. I do not own the third or fourth Harry Potter novels in paperback, but I do …read more!

From Dark Horizons: Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets: Seems that Warners is starting to test commercials for “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.” Here’s Chris with a point-by-point description of what he saw: “Just today my friend and I were a part of a test market for the “Harry Potter and the …read more!

From the Globe and Mail comes this story of how the “Harry Potter” books are helping a family cope with the loss of a loved one: Depression and death are central themes in Rowling’s Harry Potter books. Harry survives the murderous attack on his family, but bears his signature jagged scar on his forehead from …read more!

From the Lancaster (Pennsylvania) New Era: Competitors in the Lancaster YMCA triathlon might notice a few things at next month’s race: — Some new guys directing traffic on the bike course. — A bigger crowd of racers. — And, oh yeah, maybe a guy in a wizard’s hat crossing the finish line. All are the …read more!