Today’s USA Today article has a number of wonderful insights from our favorite bunch, even more than were posted yesterday. The article starts: HERTFORDSHIRE, England — Hermione gets to wear jeans and — ugh — hold hands with Ron. Harry is one angry 13-year-old wizard. And his supernatural foes are even more ominous this time. …read more!

Today’s USA today article also contains some new pics in the print edition, which reader Amy was nice enough to scan for us – enjoy! ‘Harry as a teenager’ Monster Book of Monsters Harry on the Knight Bus On the Hogwarts Express Anchoring Aunt Marge Harry with the map

USAToday has up an article on Prisoner of Azkaban, which discusses how the characters – and the young actors and actresses – have changed since Chamber of Secrets: He’s still a wizard, of course. He still attends Hogwarts, and Ron and Hermione remain his best pals. He continues to wear those dorky glasses. But the …read more!

A pair of J.K. Rowling’s shoes are part of an exhibit to showcase the number of women who die in the UK every year as a result of domestic violence. J.K. Rowling’s black satin Jimmy Choo shoes that she wore to the Edinburgh premiere of the first Harry Potter film will later be up for …read more!

In an interview in The Age, director Mike Newell talks about the upcoming GOF film, saying he “won’t be churning out a bland studio product.” He says: “You find a way to make this stuff your own and you find, wonderfully enough, that that’s exactly what the studio want. The studio doesn’t want a homogenised …read more!

DigiCasey has images from the new trailer, including Hermione punching Draco, Harry and Hermione examining her Time-Turner, Professor Trelawney goggling something and Dementors flying. We guess that the last image is of Harry trying to generate a Patronus and conjuring the WB logo instead. Thanks to G.V. for the tip! Update: The pictures are no …read more!

We’ve just received a description of what may be part of a new POA commercial. A Leaky reader took part in a test market panel and sent us these details of new scenes. They include ones of Harry flying on Buckbeak,the Patronus lessons,and notably Hermione punching Malfoy then saying “that felt good”. Read more of …read more!

XBoxGen.net has some great caps from the Prisoner of Azkaban video game. Thanks Winky!

In an interview on About.com, Shirley Henderson talks a bit more about her role as Moaning Myrtle in the upcoming Goblet of Fire movie. She says: “Myrtle’s not in the third, but she pops up in Harry’s bath in the fourth one.”

IGN Filmforce is reporting, and we can independently and officially confirm, that Radio City Music Hall in midtown Manhattan will be the venue for the May 23 world premiere of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.