A survey of 153 politicians in the House of Commons and 100 in the House of Lords found that Book Six was third on a list of books that they planned to take on holiday; Dan Brown’s mystery thriller The DaVinci Code was in first place and William Hague’s biography of William Pitt the Younger …read more!

Despite some trends elsewhere in the US that see the Harry Potter books moving off “banned books” lists at schools and libraries,

We are so proud and excited to finally bring you PotterCast, Leaky’s first official podcast! We have been fooling around with the podcast technology for so long, and wanted to bring this to you long ago but HBP got in our way! That silly book! We can’t wait to share what we’ve created with you. …read more!

You can see the International Harry Potter and the Goblet of Firetrailer on this link on Allocine.fr. The direct downloads have disappeared but we will provide a QT download shortly.

There are three not-exactly-new but definitely not-widely-released trailers from Prisoner of Azkaban at MagicBoxMusic; thanks John and Veritaserum!

The West Asheville Branch of the Asheville-Buncombe Library System in North Carolina won Scholastic’s competition for the first signed American edition of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the LibraryJournal.com reports. The book was hand-delivered by a representative of Scholastic this week and won among 9,000 entrants. Because response to the competition was so high, …read more!

Arab News reports that even though HBP does not yet have an Arab edition, it is the hottest selling English book in Saudi Arabia.

The Sunday Mail actually reports today that JKR purchased a silver model of a Dodo bird from jeweller Patrick Mavros, in a news item that we would nominate for the We Can’t Believe They Wrote That Award, if it existed.

Goblet of Fire tops Entertainment Weekly‘s list of films the staff can’t wait to see this fall. Thanks Lee!