Hollydaze tells us that the movie says James Potter was the Gryffindor Seeker – we know from many JKR chats that he was a Chaser. Hm.

In addition to HPGalleries’ extensive review page, a good review place to keep bookmarked is Rotten Tomatoes’ Harry Potter page for a running log of the stampeding hordes of opinions coming in and my favorite feature, a tomatometer to weigh the good and bad.

A transcript of the interview with Daniel Radcliffe which aired on the Australian version of 60 Minutes is available from their website.

FictionAlley Park has a report from the New York premiere. Two Park regulars managed to get tickets to the showing at the Ziegfeld and met Dan Radcliffe just before the show started. Pics and scans of the ticket will be available on FictionAlley later tonight/tomorrow.

Movie-launch parties and events are going on all over the world. For info about the Salem event, scroll down. To see what’s going on in NYC, visit Ali Wildgoose’s Diagon Alley site. And if you’ll be in Orlando, see what other HP fans plan to do at Disney World’s Downtown Disney on the 16th and …read more!

On tv in the U.S. this week: Monday: Daniel Radcliffe will be on The Today Show on NBC. Tuesday, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint will feature on Today and Daniel Radcliffe will be on MTV’s Total Request Live. If you’re not in the US< you might be able to catch him in their Green Room …read more!

An article in the Contra Costa times quotes a representative of online ticketsellers Fandango as saying “The demand that you’re seeing for ‘Harry Potter’ is certainly, in an online ticketing capacity, something we’ve never seen before.” A similar-themed article from the Associated Press has a spokeswoman for Movietickets.com quoted as saying that the Potter sales …read more!

Nielsen’s online ratings company, which monitors hits to websites, says that the Official Site has shown a market increase in hits over the past six weeks, as around 573,000 unique visitors hit the Web site during the week ended November 4th — a 239 percent increase from the 169,000 visitors during the same period of …read more!

Did you miss the Salem Witches at the Quidditch World Cup? Well, get tickets to the Salem Magickal Arts Center’s Night in Celebration of Harry Potter, beginning at 8pm, Friday, November 16th at 102 Washington St., 2nd Floor, Salem MA. Enjoy Strange Brews and Good eats, bid in a Silent Auction of Magickal Tools donated …read more!

Wow – in what seemed like a run-of-the-mill HP preview, Entertainment Weekly ran this in their character sketch on Dumbledore: Owes his life to Hagrid…though that has yet to be explained. Have they gotten their hands on some of that to-literally-die-for info that Robbie Coltrane was hinting at? If so, big kudos to EW.