Our favorite author’s only son turns four today! Please join us in wishing a happy birthday to David Rowling-Murray! We hope you get lots of cake, eat too much ice cream, and have enough fun to make Dudley green. And David, all we ask in return is that you toddle up to your mother, put …read more!

Now that the title and release date for the last Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has been announced, much speculation has begun on what could happen next for the beloved series that many do not want to see come to an end. For example, one comic book site has a new …read more!

The Lancaster newspaper reports that young vandals caused more than £50,000 worth of damage to the Hogwarts Express train carriages in the railway depot where they are stored. The police in the town of Carnforth say that the vandals, thought to be as young as ten, smashed the train’s windows with its own emergency hammers. …read more!

Severus Snape. The mention of his very name immediately gets attention and never fails to conjure up a strong reaction among Harry Potter fans, especially given the events in Half-Blood Prince. The Baltimore Sun has a new article online featuring the nefarious Potionsmaster and how this character has become such a popular and widely discussed …read more!

Scores of readers let us know actor Dan Radcliffe is to appear on the Friday Night with Jonathan Ross show which airs March 23 starting at 10:40 pm, and is broadcast in the UK on BBC One. The information on the program says that: “The new season kicks off with Daniel Radcliffe making a return …read more!

It’s a Marauders birthday party of sorts here in the Cauldron, for today actor Gary Oldman (Sirius Black) is celebrating his 49th birthday! Cheers to you Gary! Also in the midst of yesterday’s news we missed that actor David Thewlis (Remus Lupin) celebrated his 44th birthday. Happy belated birthday David!

In a major announcement today about their intent to print Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book on recycled paper, Scholastic, the US publishers of the Harry Potter novels said that the last Harry Potter book will have “784” pages. This will make the book the second longest of the series, behind Harry Potter and …read more!

Starting on August 1, several of the new 2008 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie calendars will be available for purchase. You can now see the covers to four of these calendars here in our galleries. These feature images of Dan Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley), and Emma Watson (Hermione …read more!

Please note that this is still very much a rumor, and even IF true, may change if there are further revisions, but as reader and friend Tom pointed out to Leaky, bookseller Waterstones has listed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at 608 pages. Going by former comparisons, this would put an American version at …read more!

A new segment, Horcruxes, and rock’n’roll stories are in this week’s PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast, which is now available. To listen, just hit the “Play” button on the right side of the page (—>), or use iTunes, or direct download. In the show this week: -A whole new segment: Scribby 5! -The mailbag and …read more!