Daniel Radcliffe was named Best Young Actor at the SyFy Genre Awards for his role as Harry Potter in the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban film. Daniel also won this award back in 2003 for his performance in Chamber of Secrets. Thanks to Page from Dan Radcliffe.co.uk

A team of librarians in Henderson, Nevada spent 100 hours reading aloud last week, as they tried to break a world record set by Australian librarians, according to USAToday. It took the group 72 hours to read five Harry Potter novels. The rest of the time was spent reading westerns, romances and mysteries.

Macleans, a Canadian magazine, had a recent feature on the soon to be released Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The article listed some of the main characters who they thought might possibly be doomed to die in this next installment of the Harry Potter books. Ranking them in order of who they are guessing …read more!

The Sunday Times has a new interview with actor Sean Biggerstaff, who played Gryffindor Quidditch Captain Oliver Wood. Sean has been cast as a lead role in a new motion picture called Cashback. The Times article notes how this new role is important for the actor to continue on in his career, but Sean has …read more!

Comic Con International will be taking place again this year in San Diego, and Warner Brothers will be promoting the upcoming Goblet of Fire film at this convention in July. There is a magazine the convention sends out, and it contains a new interview with Goblet film director Mike Newell. A young fourteen year old …read more!

The new issue of “Entertainment Weekly” magazine has a feature this week called “The 122 People and Things We Love This Summer.” Ranked at number 13 is actor Ralph Fiennes who will portray Lord Voldemort in the upcoming Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire film. Age: 42. Mustworthiness: Give him a character who’s intellectually …read more!

Quick reminder: the “Ask Jo” contest ends tonight at midnight – there are currently 112 pages of questions, and figuring a (very) low average of three questions per user…that’s at least 3-4,000 queries. Yikes. And that’s not counting 33 more pages on another thread. So, this is your last chance to add your question to …read more!

We know there’s been a tremendous amount of stories saying JKR has finally announced or said or something that there won’t be e-books of HP – thank you for the many e-mails. We haven’t posted this because there’s not much news in it, seeing as there’s never been any indication e-books were a possibility and …read more!

TLC attended yesterday’s unveiling of Scholastic’s 30-day countdown clock at its New York City store. Kids from a nearby elementary school gathered around the huge Half-Blood Prince display and answered trivia questions posted to them by Arthur Levine, the main editor of the Scholastic edition of Harry Potter, and Barbara Marcus, the executive vice president …read more!

Forbes magazine has released yet another list, this one of the most powerful celebrities. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is listed this year at number twenty two, falling from last year’s spot at number six. The top spot went to talk show host Oprah Winfrey. One of a handful of billionaires on the Celebrity 100; …read more!