There are some new of photos of the trio of actors Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson that have now surfaced online. HPANA posted these additional photos of the trio that were taken for the recent issue of Entertainment Weekly. Also, reader Di sent in some scans of the new January edition of a …read more!

Scotland’s Daily Record reports that J.K. Rowling responded to 12-year-old Breeze Gardner’s request by donating an autographed copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to a charity auction. ” . . . [T]he book is expected to fetch more than £ 6000 when it is auctioned off next month. Breeze had explained to JK …read more!

Filming for December Boys has begun in South Australia, and the Sydney Morning Herald has a short piece on Daniel Radcliffe’s “life as a full-time muggle” actor. The story also features a great new photo of Dan on the set of the film. On the National Nine News website, Dan talks about working in Australia …read more!

With the December 1 premiere of GoFgrowing ever-closer, there’s plenty of news from Australia today! The Sydney Morning Herald has a story about the darker tone of children’s and family films in general, and the HP films in particular. “In many ways, the blackening tone of the Potter movies is simply a reflection of the …read more!

Actor Stanislav Ianevski (Viktor Krum) attended the premiere of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in Bulgaria recently, and you can see photos from the event at Potter-mania.com. Novinite reports that Goblet film director Mike Newell, and actor Tolga Safer also attended the event. Thanks Andrey!

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is one of the New York Times’ “100 Notable Books of the Year.” HBP is in company with books by Dave Eggers, E. L. Doctorow, Gabriel Garcí Má, Joyce Carol Oates, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Cormac McCarthy (great name). Congratulations, Jo! Thanks to Mrs. McClaggan and ndc1980.

Daniel Radcliffe is the first actor to be confirmed as a guest star for the second season of “Extras”. The date that the episode will air has not been announced, but we’ll keep you posted! Read more here. Thanks to everyone who sent this in!

Our latest joint podcast with MuggleCast, The Leaky Mug #5, is now available for download. It’s our little wrapup of the live NYC podcast from last week, giving some info about what went on behind the scenes that weekend…with some celebrity surprises. Also, we announce our next LIVE podcast, to hit Vegas in 2006! If …read more!

Thanks to our fantabulous Transcription Elves (Alex, Doris, Tim, Pascal, Kyle, Dawn, Gina, Mark, Jules and Joel) as well as MuggleNet’s lovely Jess and Micah, the transcript of the live NYC PotterCast is online right here! Also, the transcript to PotterCast 12 is right here and #11, right here! Thank you, Elves! PotterCast #14 is …read more!

The Snitchseeker.com has some new scans from a day- by-day calendar that show some scenes from Goblet of Fire that were not included in the final theatrical version of the new Potter film. One of these scenes includes Snape and Karkaroff outside in the snow at the Yule Ball, in what looks like an intense …read more!