Scholastic has announced a 20% discount on all pre-orders of HBP – which they are taking now for the first time. In addition, all pre-orders of HBP made through Scholastic will get a free printed copy of the Potter poster recently released by the company. To pre-order, you can go here, or visit our HBP …read more!

Presenting Leaky’s first-ever game, a current work in progress we like to call Chamber of Chat! This is also our first ever chat. When the folks at ISO Interactive came to us with this chat game, we had so much fun with it, we knew you would too, even though it’s not the type of …read more!

Dark Horizons has posted an item today that says there’s an issue of “HOLA” with an interview with Liz Hurley that strongly implies she will be playing Bellatrix Lestrange in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, due to start filming in Jan or Feb: “I want to have fun and when I learned …read more!

Les madames et monsieur, nous sommes fiers pour présenter Le Chaudron Baveur en Français! (Edit: I’ve been told the way to say that properly is: Mesdames et Messieurs, nous sommes fiers de vous présenter Le Chaudron Baveur,la version française de The Leaky Cauldron.) Now that I’ve massacred the French language, let’s do this properly: TLC’s …read more!

Warner Bros. is promoting the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire film this week in New York at the Licensing 2005 International show. Ain’t it Cool News.com has this photo of a huge picture of Daniel Radcliffe who plays Harry Potter in the films. This is the photo that looks similar to one that …read more!

Raincoast Books, the Canadian publisher of HP, announced the winner of its cub reporter contest today. Eun Ji An of West Vancouver, 14, said on her winning entry form: “I read the five Harry Potter books that are out in two languages [English and Korean] and also listened to them in audio recording. I am …read more!

Just a little note to say Happy Birthday to OotP, which was “born” into the world two years ago today – where were you? What were you doing? What will you be doing on July 16? (Psst, go here for help if you don’t know.)

Booksellers Barnes & Noble have just announced that on the evening of July 15th, they will be simulcasting a special greeting from J.K. Rowling at 7:20pm(EST) carried live from Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. This will be broadcast in the Barnes and Noble Store in Union Square in New York City. The Union Square Store will …read more!

Jenna from DanRadcliffe.com and Page from DanRadcliffe.co.uk reported today that an article in Teen Hollywood.com regarding Dan’s parents’ purported concern regarding his safety in Prague was “totally untrue”. Here is what Dan’s representative had to say about it: This is a totally fabricated story, with not one grain of truth in it. Firstly, due to …read more!

Bloomsbury, the UK Publishers of the Harry Potter books, have added a cool new Half-Blood Prince poster for download, here(under the Downloads section). It features the cover of the Children’s version of the book, with the artwork from the back cover, as well as the the phrase “The Wizarding Hour Approaches…” Only 25 more days! …read more!