Six days to go! Today’s LeakyLounge poll is up, and it asks you who owns, or owned (SPOILER ALERT) the ring (a picture of which Bloomsbury released awhile ago and you can see in the first post of the thread). Yesterday’s poll, “What is the underlying theme of the HP series?” is closed and it …read more!

Please excuse the somewhat personal nature of the following post, but this morning I was reading all the adds in the Sunday paper and came across one advertising the Half-Blood Prince book at the lowest price this editor has seen listed here in the US. Meijer stores are selling the book for a low $14.87, …read more!

Everyone at TLC sends our congratulations to David Thewlis and his partner Anna Friel, who welcomed their new baby girl, Gracie, into the world this weekend. Mother and Baby are reportedly doing well, and are very happy.

Earlier this week, we reported on some of the details of the special midnight party in Edinburgh, Scotland for Half-Blood Prince release, and now The Times has some additional information about this magical event. After arriving in 12 carriages “drawn by black horses adorned with black ostrich plumes and driven by coachmen dressed in capes,” …read more!

The Scotsman is reporting about some new research that was conducted in the UK about the influence of the Harry Potter books on children’s literacy. A result of this research by The Federation of Children’s Book Groups shows that reading the Potter books have proven very beneficial to children’s reading abilities. “Almost six out of …read more!

We’re happy to announce that the PotterParties.com Web site now has information about over 2000 release parties for next weekend. The site will stop accepting party submissions at 12:00am ET, Tuesday, July 12th. Be sure to make sure the event you are attending is entered and spread the word to the hundreds of Harry Potter …read more!

Everyone have their pencils sharpened? brushed up on your Potter knowledge? If so, here is a look at the New York Times Harry Potter Crossword Puzzle, which will be published in papers tomorrow. Enjoy! size=”-1″>Note: Our comments are temporarily disabled to save the server from im- or exploding. Please visit the Daily Prophet Offices section …read more!

As we told you previously, NBC’s The Today Show will be featuring our favorite wizard all next week. Jim Dale, the narrator of the US Harry Potter audio books, will be performing a reading on Tuesday, July 12th. Also the contest for the Total Trivia Tournament Champion will air on July 14th. There are lots …read more!

Our Floo team has come up with something amazing again; the crew at the Harry Potter Lexicon has unveiled a major update, including full working archives of the door openings on JKR.com – this means if you’ve been out of town and missed it, or just want to do it again, you can got to …read more!

Today’s poll, “What is the underlying theme of the HP series?” is up. This is part of our forum’s Poll-a-Day-till-HBP; you can see the other polls here. Severus Snape won yesterday’s “Favorite Villian” post by a landslide 37% of the vote. In second was Professor Dolores Umbridge (13%) and in third Lucius Malfoy (11%). Also, …read more!