The Guardian has a few paragraphs on those who translate Harry Potter: A Catalan translator said that she had lost the assignment after rejecting what she considered to be an inadequate royalty deal, but most delegates were getting more money from HP than they had ever earned before. While Warner Bros put pressure on them …read more!

Bowling Green State University’s magazine features Dr. Margaret Booth in its fall issue, an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at BGSU who has written a paper (along with her 12 year old daughter Grace) called “Learning from the Cultural Context and Practices of a Somewhat British Institution: Or What Americans Can Learn from Hogwarts School …read more!

In SciFi.com: Production of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire will begin in late April or early May, with Daniel Radcliffe (Harry), Rupert Grint (Ron) and Emma Watson (Hermione) reprising their roles. “They’re all actually the age they are in the story,” Newell said in an interview. “What Alfonso has done very remarkably is …read more!

Melissa and I spent the weekend snowed in and up to our elbows in PayPal spreadsheets, mailing labels, personal checks and wonderful letters from you. We did not even half finish the process of sending out your T-shirts (it proved to be a much bigger job than we’d anticipated), but we will finish this coming …read more!

TLC reader Bevin pointed out this article featured at MuggleNet: It took a dyslexic fan of JK Rowling’s hit series to realise that parts of the latest book, Order of the Phoenix, have been changed or left out of the BBC’s “complete and unabridged” tapes. Mrs Nickerson enjoyed reading the first four Harry Potter books …read more!

Many TLC readers have written to let us know that Stephen King’s Dark Tower V: The Wolves of the Calla mentions a grenade-like weapon that has the following information engraved on its casing: ‘SNEETCH’ HARRY POTTER MODEL Serial # 465-11-AA HPJKR CAUTION EXPLOSIVE Thanks to everyone for the information, and to Mr. King – LOL!

PotterVillage.com let us know that they have the Access Hollywood video clip in Real Media format, courtesy of Finchy and DanRadcliffe.com. Thanks to all involved for making this clip available!

Finchy was nice enough to put up some screencaps of the Access Hollywood clip. Thanks, Finchy!

The French site PotterWorldOnline has a scan of a magazine cover featuring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint. Obviously a shot from the Vanity Fair photo shoot, it adds fuel to the debate of the century – which young man is the tallest? 😉 Thanks to Winky for the link!

The Scotsman has an article on investing in rare editions of children’s books that mentions the upcoming Sotheby’s auction of Harry Potter first editions. Thanks to Sue for the link.