We’ve been watching the mounting devastation Hurricane Katrina wreaked on the Gulf Coast here for a few weeks now, and we don’t feel as if that’s enough. We want to help, and feel as though our readers do, too. We’re happy to announce that we’ve joined up with MuggleNet for the “Potter Fans for Katrina …read more!

Listen/Subscribe / Call in/contact / Leave voicemail Thanks to our fantastic Transcription Elves, the transcript of PotterCast #2 is now up! The third edition of PotterCast, our Potter podcast, will be posted in time for your back-to-work commute on Tuesday. Stay tuned for new fan points of view, an indepth chat with a movie reporter …read more!

Entertainment Weekly lists the midnight release of Goblet of Fire in 2000 one of the entertainment’s top moments in the past 25 years. “A publishing phenomenon: Excited fans of every age line up…for a book!” HP shares the space with “Who Shot J.R.?” and the debut of Nintendo. Good stuff. The list will be used …read more!

In the Associated Press’s fall movie preview, GoF director Mike Newell talks about the anarchy of Hogwarts: “Aside from everything else, these are school stories,” Newell said. “In a middle-of-the-road English education, the teachers are embattled, the school is a very kind of anarchic place and a very funny place, as well. Where two sets …read more!

The Sunday Times of South Africa reported in August that the release of HBP shattered all previous records there, selling 40,000 copies in its first day. As of August 21 it had sold 65,000 copies, knocking Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code from its position as number one best seller.

Variety reports that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth film, will have a budget of more than $150 million. It also notes that this has little to do with salary: “‘Potter,’ [doesn’t] have a star with anything close to a $20 million payday.”

Artbox Entertainment, makers of the Harry Potter movie trading cards, recently let various retailers know that the new Goblet of Fire movie trading cards will be released on October 24th. We now have a photo of the collectible tin for the cards, as well as a photo of the individual card packs and display box. …read more!

These two photos were sent to us by Claire of RupertOnline.net. Thanks Claire! Cho Chang (huge) Cho Chang (medium) Cho Chang (small) McGonagall (huge) McGonagall (medium) McGonagall (small)

The stunning Dutch cover art of HBP has been released; click here to see it. Thank you Zweinstein Online and De Lekke Ketel!

Gamespot.com reviews the new GoF video game, saying “the artists are striving to make the characters look as close to their real-life counterparts as possible. The artists have also worked with the film’s production design to create a Hogwarts and a Tri-Wizard Tournament that are both highly evocative of the forthcoming movie.” Click here for …read more!