Richard Griffiths (Uncle Vernon) was named “Best Actor” at The Evening Standard Theatre Awards for his role in the play The History Boys. Congratulations Richard. Thanks Liz!

Two separate spokespeople for Jo Rowling told TLC today that all these bookstore “memos” going around telling people to expect an announcement on the release date of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in early- to mid-January are completely uninformed. “If there was an announcement about to be made early next year no one would …read more!

Newsweek Magazine in the US has named PoA one of its top ten films of the year, along with films like Sideways and The Aviator – they say “third time’s the charm”!

This week’s Entertainment Weekly shows that the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban DVD gained first and sixth place earnings (for the widescreen and fullscreen editions, respectively) in DVD sales in its first week out of the box. Thank you Elizabeth for the info!

JKRowling.com says today (December 12 already in England) is Charlie Weasley’s birthday!

Our favorite author has updated her site, explaining why “No News is Good News“: I have nothing noteworthy to report, because I have been spending nearly all my time sitting in front of my computer writing, re-writing and taking the occasional break to bang my head off the desk in frustration or else rub my …read more!

A few weeks ago, we told you about actor Daniel Radcliffe’s (Harry Potter) Christmas card that he was sending out this year. It featured a photo taken from the filming of the second task of the upcoming Goblet of Fire movie. The USA Today has more on this card, and what went into setting the …read more!

Today actor Kenneth Branagh (Gilderoy Lockhart) turns 44! Happy Birthday Kenneth!

We’re halfway into our GIVE A GALLEON drive and more than half our inventory is gone, so get moving – give a Galleon, get a sticker and support literacy all at once. A few of your friends from England wanted to tell you the same. They really wanted to say, nice and simply, to Give …read more!

J.K.Rowling has won a legal battle in a typosquatting claim, and will have the domains “kjkrowling.com” and “www-jkrowling.com,” currently registered to an individual in Uruguay, transferred to her. A typosquatter purposefully incorporates mispellings and common typos into domain names, to harvest hits from typists with slippery fingers. A while back a particularly seedy site boasted …read more!