Last night, I was lucky enough to see Jim Dale read from the Harry Potter books at Storyopolis on Venura Boulevard. He read a bit from Book Six, then the scene from Prisoner of Azkaban where they won the Quidditch Cup. He noted that the crowd was comprised mostly of adults – of the 100 …read more!

J.K. Rowling’s oldest child, Jessica, turns 12 today! Happy birthday!

Yesterday, ComingSoon posted the transcript of the chat that TLC, MuggleNet and several other journalists had with Robert Pattinson (Cedric Diggory), Stan Ianevski (Viktor Krum) and Clemence Poesy (Fleur Delacour) at Leavesden Studios in November. We haven’t yet heard why it was posted, since as far as TLC or MN knew there was no go-ahead,but …read more!

There is an article running today in many newspapers about the delay in various translations of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. According to this piece, the translators had to wait until the book was first released before they could begin their work. While millions have already finished the sixth book in J.K. Rowling’s fantasy …read more!

The Guardian has a look at the strong appeal of the Potter books for readers of all ages, as well as at others series often classified as ‘children’s books’: Although we can measure the size of the phenomenon by crunching numbers, that doesn’t help us to understand why Harry Potter stands quite so large in …read more!

The Web site for Arthur A. Levine Books, the imprint of Scholastic books that publishes the American editions of Harry Potter, has updated its FAQ to answer some questions they’ve been receiving from many readers regarding potential errors in the books. It also clears up some misconceptions. For instance: “The site, therefore, of Fudge stepping …read more!

The transcripts of all the recent JKR interviews are now up in full on our Floo Partner, the QQQ: Click here for transcripts, and here for summaries. The hardworking team over there has used the summary page to break down every last piece of info given by JKR in the six interviews she gave leading …read more!

TLC is very proud to be a finalist in the Movies.com Web site awards. Two of the sites are HP – us and the mighty MuggleNet – so either one is a win for HP fans. If you want to vote for us, please do. You can do so right here. Last year we were …read more!

PollingPoint has a survey for anyone who’s finished Book Six; you can fill it out here. The survey itself has some spoilers for the book.

Need a quick summary of one of the books, or want to bring a friend who has yet to read the series up to date? Atlanta, Georgia radio station Q100 has, in the style of R&B singer R. Kelly, set the first four books to music, with book five on the way later this week. …read more!