Winky of Potter World Online writes to tell us that a get together and read website has been organized for the December French release of Order of the Phoenix. That I can’t read French aside, the website looks to be much like what we did for the U.S. release.

William Safire, author of the NYT column “On Language,” who usually pummels Rowling’s writing, has mentioned her use of “frog-march”, with no sign of condescension (if you don’t count his insistence her books are solely for children): The author of the Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling, who used the colorful verb in one of …read more!

”Harry Potter aur paras pathar’ kahani hai ek gyarah saal ke ladke ki, jo apne uncle-aunty ke saath dukhad zindagi ji raha hai hai. Parantu tabhi use jaadu aur tantra ke school Hogwarts mein padne ke liye bulaya jata hai aur vahan jaakar veh ban jaata ek mahan jaadugar. School mein veh Quidditch khelta hai, …read more!

Emma Thompson is on The Oprah Winfrey Show today in North America – no idea yet if she’ll be talking about her role as Trelawney, as she’s officially there to plug Love Actually, the amazing movie in which she stars with Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Colin Firth and others (and which contains a mention of …read more!

CBBC reports that J.K. Rowling is now the wealthiest woman in Britain, and ranks 5th on the list overall. Also on the list is Harry Potter himself…Daniel Radcliffe. Thanks, Raquel!

BBC Norfolk has posted their transcript of the chat with Chris Rankin.

It has been elsewhere reported that the JKR’s Simpsons Epsiode will be tomorrow, on the Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horrors XIV. This is not true. The episode summary for her appearance has nothing to do with Halloween, and the summary for tomorrow’s doesn’t mention it. As we reported from a BBC report a while ago, JKR’s …read more!

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is in the running to be become known as the best book in the U.K. The poll, known as The Big Read, includes Harry, Winnie the Pooh and the current front-runner, LOTR.

Thanks to everyone who sent in this all too true comic. I hope everyone had a great Halloween, and Happy Los Dios de los Muertos!

In October, it was reported : ” JK Rowling publicly said ‘Harry sustains a minimal but lasting injury in this [the sixth] book.’ It is also reported to be roughly just under the length of GoF and will most likely be done by early January. (The first draft.). We’ve got word from an irrefutable source …read more!