The Chronicle of Higher Education has an interesting article touching upon the Stoicism of the boy wizard.

CountingDown.com has *13* new clips from the movie online. Basically what we’re seeing on all the TV shows – and full clips too. Not trailer snippets. Quite nice and very impressive. Definite SPOILERS here.

TheOneRing.Net has posted an article from the UK’s Daily Mail about the roots of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings.

It seems Madam Hooch is having issues with the mear Knuts she’s being paid.

Seems Harry Potter was a Bradford City Football player in another life.

An “interesting” rumor from Marc at MuggleNet: Some of you may know her as “the witch who forgot to take off her Halloween mask”, while others recognize her shrill voice saying, “You are the Weakest Link, goodbye!”. But whether we’ve seen the show or not, you all recognize that malicious, mean, horrible (I still love …read more!

New Zealand is going crazy over Harry according to this Herald article sent to us by Caroline. She has these comments: Although 10,000 tickets might not seem like a lot, I should remind you that NZ has a total population of just under 3.5 million, and Harry Potter doesn’t come out here for 3 weeks!

Reader Branden emailed us this screen capture of Lily being Avada Kedavra’d by Lord Voldemort. I of course won’t post this so to spoil the scene. You have to click on this link. You can see Voldemort’s arm to the left and his boney-white hand and wand pointing at Lily who appears to be arched …read more!

Entertainment Rewired has quite the heartfelt review from Ryan Buell – a must read for die-hard fans.

Harry Knowles of Aint It Cool News has posted his review, with a fascinating impression of the last 10 minutes or so, which even book-obsessives shouldn’t read until they’ve seen the film.