Gentle Giant has released a brand new limited edition Merperson mini bust, that also comes with a special Grindylow statue as well. You can see this new statue here via Action-Figure Xpress.com.

Love is all you need….for a bit of early Valentine’s Day fun taking place today in our forum, the Leaky Lounge. Starting right now, you can fill the air with some fantastic filky music, doodle to your heart’s content in our avatar and signature thread, and for those who need some advice in matters of …read more!

Well the writer from the Herald might disapprove, but the Harry Potter books are indeed quite popular in her country, as The Scotsman reports that “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was the most borrowed book in Scotland last year, according to the Public Lending Right office, which tracks loan data.” Others on the list …read more!

MSNBC has a new interview with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix set designer Stuart Craig, along with some new images from the upcoming film. (Update: You can now see the images in hi-res; click here for the fountain, this link for the corridor, and click here for Harry in Snape’s classroom.) Included …read more!

Dissendium.com has unearthed rare video of a speech author J.K. Rowling gave several years ago, where she briefly discusses Harry turning 17 and doing magic outside of Hogwarts, and what that may mean for Dudley in Book Seven. You can see this video here. (note poor audio quality) If you are having trouble watching the …read more!

Many readers let us know that Harry Potter was the subject of this Get Fuzzy cartoon today. Thanks guys!

Toy Fair is taking place this week here in New York, and NECA is set to unveil 12 new Harry Potter figures this weekend in addition to the ones we first told you about last month. Thanks to a TLC reader, we now have a first look at three of these new figures of Harry …read more!

A new photo has surfaced online of actor Matt Lewis as Neville Longbottom from the upcoming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix film. This shows Neville along with what seems to be the elusive Stinksap- emitting Mimbulus Mimbletonia plant, which you can see here courtesy of via HarryLatino.com. Thanks Pablo!

There will be a new series of stamps released in France next month promoting the upcoming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie. Along with a series of stamps featuring Harry (Dan Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint), and Hermione (Emma Watson), new images also show Evanna Lynch as Luna, Bonnie Wright as Ginny Weasley …read more!

Melanie Reid at The Herald has written one of those familiar, extreme-minority opinion pieces calling Harry Potter trash and reveling in its eventual end. Of course, we’d like to respond to the traditional mistruths in these kinds of articles, which this one has in spades. For one, she cites Harold Bloom, the literary critic, and …read more!