The first Barnes & Noble HBP discussion group, scheduled to begin chatting on Tuesday led by our own Sue Upton, is full. Because of the tremendous response, a second one is now open for enrolllment; this one will be hosted by John Granger, author of Looking for God in Harry Potter, and our own Doris …read more!

SPOILER WARNING: Scholastic sent us the back cover of the book in beautiful green high quality glory: Here you go! Comments are off; post here in the Leaky Lounge! UPDATE: Scholastic has released some info about this art. Click the link below to read. “The back cover depicts Ron and Hermione as well as two …read more!

In conjunction with their 10th Anniversary, online retailer Amazon.com has announced their top selling authors. J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series was named as the number one best-selling author. She was followed by “author was followed by Spencer Johnson of “Who Moved My Cheese?” fame, romance novelist Nora Roberts and “The Da Vinci …read more!

Seven days to go, and today’s Leaky Lounge poll, asking who your favorite villain is (Snape’s winning as of this posting) is right here; yesterday’s, “Will Harry use an Unforgivable,” is now closed. More than 34% of you said he will never use one; 21% thought he would use more than one, and 18% thought …read more!

Hey all; we’ve taken the pics of the back of the book down for the moment but will return with something better soon.

We’ll be posting news as regular today, so as to not let hard-hearted people disrupt the lives they seek to disrupt. Our 8-days-to-go poll is up at the Lounge, and asks whether Harry would use an Unforgivable, and which one. Yesterday’s poll, concerning what object Arthur Weasley might enchant that might later come in useful, …read more!

We at TLC wish these types of posts didn’t come so often, but today we offer our sympathy and wishes for safety to our readers from London, who were hit with what Prime Minister Tony Blair said were most likely terrorist attacks this morning. We sincerely hope you all remain safe, and send our deepest …read more!

The USA Today has posted an article on our favourite author, J.K. Rowling. It is mostly an overview of her life, re-telling the story of the struggling author, and her subsequent successes with the Harry Potter books. Barry Cunningham, her first editor at Bloomsbury Publishing in London, remembers giving her “terrible advice” when they met …read more!

The Harry Potter Fan Zone has posted an extended promotional cutout of the HBP artwork (this was done in 2003, too, in the form of large cardboard phoenixes). You can see more detail about the fire coming out of Dumbledore’s wand. Thanks HPFZ!

Extra, extra: The aforementioned Harry Potter-themed crossword puzzle will appear in the New York Times‘ book review on Sunday, July 10 (subscribers should receive it Saturday). It was created by the New York Times marketing department in cooperation with Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic. And I hear it’s cool (though, can it stump Leaky readers? We’ll …read more!