The Prisoner of Azkaban soundtrack has nabbed the 2004 Soundtrack of the Year Award from StreamingSoundtracks.com. The award was nominated by SST and voted on by the station’s users. Thanks Nico!

Zach of the Harry Potter Fan Zone let us know about work at the University of Pennsylvania on an actual invisibility shield called a “plasmonic cover”. The Scotsman writes: According to Dr Andrea Alu and Dr Nader Engheta, the engineers behind the project, the key is to reduce light scattering. Objects are visible because light …read more!

There are rumors going around that according to an Italian magazine OotP director David Yates is considering casting an American actress as Lily Potter in OotP. This is false. This rumor came up last week and a WB rep instantly shot it down to TLC. Casting is not yet underway on OotP, and Geraldine Somerville …read more!

Happy Birthday to everyone’s favorite redheaded Keeper, Ron Weasley! There’s a birthday wish on JKRowling.com. Also… a birdie tells us it’s time to look on Bloomsbury.com as well! And of course, it being the first of a new month, there is a new Wizard of the Month on JKRowling.com: Mungo Bonham: (1560 – 1659) Famous …read more!

The HBP snippet that’s been circulating has been confirmed to TLC by the publishers of the catalog in which it appeared as completely unofficial and culled from fan sites. In an email, Publishers Quality Library Service said: “Scholastic has provided us with no facts about the contents to the new book.” The email went on …read more!

Sci-Fi Wire published an interview with producer David Heyman detailing some things about GoF: -The Winky and Dobby subplot has been cut -The Great Hall was stripped and completely redressed in floor-to-ceiling silver for the Yule Ball filming -“One piece of information … we’ve put into another character, which feels perfectly organic [and] works.” -The …read more!

Here yeh go, from Matt, one of our forum admins, of HP on the Oscar screen: Original Score Nomination Screen Visual Effects Nomination Screen

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban did not win the Best Original Score Academy Award for which it was nominated, its second and final nomination of the night. Finding Neverland won instead. PoA’s score was written by John Williams, who has been nominated for an Oscar 43 times – besides PoA, most recently for …read more!

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban did not win the Best Visual Effects Oscar for which it was nominated. Spider-Man 2 took the award. There’s still the Oscar for Best Original Score to go, so stay tuned. Either way we’ll have screengrabs from tonight’s event later on this evening.

Tonight, tonight won’t be just any night…it’s Oscar night! Just a quick reminder that as we told you previously Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban has been nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for awards in two categories: “Best Visual Effects” for the team of Roger Guyett, Tim Burke, John …read more!