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!

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!