HarryPotter.nl, J.K. Rowlng’s Dutch publishers’ site, has listed the working title of the seventh book – not as the expected Harry Potter en de Dodelijke Heiligen, the literal translation, but Harry Potter en het Fatale Heiligdom. That means the title is something like “Deadly Shrine,” “Deadly Sanctuary,” or, as some readers have suggested, “Deadly Saints.” …read more!

On our 69th Harry Potter podcast, a special call-in edition to discuss the new Harry Potter title, our first caller is none other than Evanna Lynch, who will play Luna Lovegood in the fifth Harry Potter film. She joins us to talk about the title, what she did when she found out, what she thinks …read more!

Several readers have let us know that Amazon.UK has now set a price for Book Seven at £13.99 (or roughly 27.39 USD), and has gone from a “Notify Me” status to an actual “Pre-Order” status. Thanks to reader Roonwit, we also know the UK retailer is telling those who have pre-ordered, amazingly, that there will …read more!

We’ve had so many requests and questions about the events of recent days, that we thought we would give those who might have missed all of this in the holiday rush a chance to catch up on all the news with this recap.Important things to note are as follows: The door to the office on …read more!

It’s end-of-the-year list time, and IMDb has released its “STARmeter Top 25 for 2006.” The rankings are based on the “actual search behavior of over 42 million users of IMDb.com.” Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) is ranked at number 22 and Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) came in at Number 16, even though neither one appeared in …read more!

Everyone ready to sing? OK, then, to the tune of “Bingo:” We know a wonderful actor Whose birthday is today-oh R-A-L-P-H! R-A-L-P-H! R-A-L-P-H! His birthday is today-oh! Ralph Fiennes (Voldemort) turns 44 today. Cheers, Mr. Fiennes (and, as a special birthday favor, we will remind everyone that your name is pronounced, “Rafe Fines”)!

Our special live call-in episode of PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast, will be tonight at 7:30 pm EST. To be involved, you have to send your Skype name or the number to call to [email protected] – since we can’t just simply open up lines (without killing all our computers), it’s going to be a call-YOU …read more!

With the news of the title for the last Harry Potter book now publicly announced, there has been widespread media reaction as you can imagine. Here are just a few of the news stories of interest on the subject: Amazon.com is the focus of this story from Bloomberg news which highlights the fact that “Amazon …read more!

We have opened a chat session in the Corner Booth to talk about the new title and what it might mean. You must be registered to take part, so register here For straight discussion, click here. You must be registered to comment. Be sure to read our last post about where parts of the title …read more!

In the wake of the release of the name of the title of Book Seven today (which is also Winter Solstice btw), Scholastic, the US publishers of the series, has updated their Book Seven image with the new name on the main page of their website. Bloomsbury, the UK publishers also have updated their image …read more!