Lightmaker, the company behind JK Rowling’s nifty new website has announced that the site was named “Favorite Websites Award” Site Of The Day (SOTD) for 8th June 2004. FWA said the site was ‘a very innovative, exciting and atmospheric website for JK Rowling, one that her personality shines through. Right from the opening signature sequence …read more!

Moderately Confused has a small mention of PoA ticket sales in today’s comic.

Listening Library received 3 “Audie Awards” for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling read by Jim Dale. The awards were for Package Design, Children’s Title for Ages 8+ and, most importantly, it won Audiobook of the Year. Random House tells us that the Audiobook of the Year Award (the first …read more!

Thanks to Darlene for creating a transcript from Alfonso Cuaron’s appearance on Linda Vester’s programme on FOX News today, where he took some questions from the audience. You can read the whole thing below. Linda Vester: If you haven’t seen the newest HP movie – GO SEE IT! The special effects in this one are …read more!

PoA director Alfonso Cuaron will be a guest on The Charlie Rose Show tonight at 11:00 pm(EDT) on PBS. Thanks Will! Update: It’s possible that Alfonso Cuaron’s interview could be pre-empted due to coverage of President Reagan. Thanks Trisha!

Hey guys – we hope you got your entry to the sweepstakes in before now, because the contest is over. Over the next few weeks we’ll be sorting through the thousands upon thousands of entiries, and will notify you personally if you’ve won. Once we’ve formatted the entries to send to JKR, we’ll update you …read more!

Are the Harry Potter books used in American elementary, middle and high school curriculums? Not according to Hartford Courant: Harry Potter has made it in the movies and onto every kind of product imaginable — lunch boxes to boxer shorts — but has he flown his Firebolt into muggle classrooms? Not exactly, according to teachers …read more!

World Wide Words, a column that looks at ‘international English from a British viewpoint’, answers this question: Some of us in the US who have been exposed to the Harry Potter phenomenon wonder why a playing field is called a pitch in England, as in Quidditch pitch? Was it once made of pitch, or is …read more!

Business Week has an article about new technology being used to make real life Potter related items. Invisibility cloaks, Marauder- type maps, even flying cars may not be too far off in the future. “…company set up specifically to develop something called the M400 Skycar. It can travel on local roads at 35 miles per …read more!

A four member panel of the Classification Review Board has concluded that Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban should be rated PG, rather than the M15+ originally signed. Thanks to the many TLC readers who sent in this link!