Reader Katie let us know that the Chapters.ca website has posted the following: “We can hardly wait – the fifth of Harry’s high-flying adventures will appear in the fall of 2002! Sign up here to receive e-mail notices as we find out more about this exciting event!” More at the link.

Daniel Radcliffe will appear Wednesday, 10 April, on David di Donatello, an Italian movie award show. According to this article (written in Italian): “[among the show’s highlights,] the exclusive appearance of the Harry Potter of the silver screen, young actor Daniel Radcliffe, who will be speaking from the set at Oxford where he is shooting …read more!

From the editorial pages of the Boston Globe: “In his dreams, President Bush is Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter’s caring headmaster who left no wizard behind. Unlike Dumbledore, Bush wants us to believe in a wand with no zap, a Gringotts with no cash, and a train platform called Nine and Three Quarters, not for sorcery …read more!

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Just a reminder to vote in the Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Awards! “Harry Potter” is nominated in three categories; favourite book, favourite video game, and favourite movie. Graves-Hume (Illinois) Public Library was recently the site of profound magic. A group of 20 children, each one a member of a generation more likely to be described as …read more!

Harry Potter O Filme (a Brazilian Harry Potter site) has scanned in pictures from a Warner Bros magazine, showing information about the Harry Potter DVD, its marketing plan in Brazil, and more. (Thanks to MuggleNet for the link.) Roy Keane has come in joint fourth on the list of rich young sports stars in Britain, …read more!

Three hours before the first-night curtain went up, Chris Rankin was seen by hundreds of thousands of youngsters on the national Newsround programme. Two hours later he was on the BBC regional Look East news magazine. And 10 hours after the curtain came down, the teenager had to be on the set for the latest …read more!

Confessions of a new Harry Potter fan. Kathryn Ross of the Daily Reporter writes: “Okay, I read “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”, and yes I’m a more than 50-year-old college graduate with a degree in literature. That’s out of the way. I enjoyed the book. I decided I wanted to read Harry Potter, because …read more!

Today’s leading-edge visual effects might not all blow your mind with spectacular explosions, lasers, spaceships and fantastic visions. But they will show you something you haven’t seen before – and make you believe it’s real. Matthew JC. Powell reports. Twins juggle friends, school, sports and insulin shots: The twins are eighth-graders at Swartz Creek Middle …read more!

News from HPGalleries JK Rowling’s former science teacher, who apparently was used as a model for the character of Severus Snape, wrote an article for HPGalleries, “On Being Snape-ish.” We get dozens of email questions every day, please find our answers to the meaningful, best, oddest or most interesting questions in our weekly eMailBag As …read more!