Jason Issacs plays a card shark in his new film Passionada, a role that’s “180 degrees” from Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter series.

Thanks everyone for emailing us this pic of Alan Rickman as Snape, but it’s not a new PoA filming pic, it’s actually a very old CoS filming pic.

Property prices in Perthshire have seen a dramatic increase since J.K. Rowling purchased her six bedroom 19th century home there: A three-bedroom farmhouse next to Rowling’s Strathtay property sold last week for well over £300,000. That’s around £200,000 more than it would have fetched a couple of years ago.

Darby Conley must be a Harry Potter fan…he’s once again featured our favorite wizard-in-training in his Get Fuzzy comic.

The UK’s Independent profiles Harry Potter actress Fiona Shaw: …despite all the media attention being given to the actress’s next venture, her Edinburgh Festival Chekhov debut in The Seagull under the direction of Peter Stein, most of the population, if asked to name one of her roles, would only be able to point at the …read more!

The Kansas City Star offers up this article on scholarly analysis of the books, while noting that many Potter professors are from – Kansas.

Enjoy finding movie bloopers? This article mentions Harry Potter: The first two Harry Potter films each had 107 bloopers, including a visible cast on the broken wrist of Emma Watson, who plays Hermione, and the wires controlling an owl and a giant spider in the sequel. Editor’s Note: MovieBloopers.com has reader submitted bloopers (some of …read more!

The latest article on the subject of Internet book piracy. Even if something’s sent out in old-school paper style, today’s scanners can quickly convert a whole book to a format that’s easily e-mailed or uploaded. That’s apparently how Harry Potter pirates got The Order of the Phoenix online, scanning every one of its 870 pages …read more!

The official German Harry Potter site is currently offering a chance for visitors to choose which Book V cover they like best. Editor’s Note: The site is, obviously, in German. To reach the book covers, click on “Zum Wahllokal” on the main page and you’ll link right to them. If you’re interested in translation, Heidi …read more!

Police in Chile have charged two men in connection with selling illegal translations of Order of the Phoenix: “Not only is it illegal, not only is it a pirate copy, it’s a really bad translation,” said Eduardo Castillo, president of the Chilian Book Chamber business group.