Ack, meant to link to this a while ago – check out Newsround’s ‘Pure Potter’ chat, in which Lizo Mzimba chats with kids about the fifth book and a BBC correspondent sits Chris Rankin down for a talk about the OotP revelations (and whether Dan Radcliffe has the temperament to portray the 15-year-old Harry). Not …read more!

According to faithful reader G.V.Linares, the first trailer for Prisoner of Azkaban will be released with Matrix Revolutions November 5th. We’re working to verify this.

Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix is the first book in English to become #1 on France’s best-seller list! (Editor’s note: My grasp of the French language is limited to what’s contained in the title of this post. I apologize to anyone who got excited at the prospect that I might be able …read more!

The Boston Globe magazine has highlighted TLC editor Heidi Tandy for her fanfic work: “With Harry Potter, people are always trying to figure out what’s going to happen next. Fanfic just puts that speculation into narrative form,” says Heidi Tandy, a Miami intellectual-property lawyer who has no problem using her real name online and in …read more!

More proof Harry Potter is out of this world: NASA has given JK top O.W.L marks for her accurate astronomy in OotP. (Editor’s commentary: I feel smarter just reading something by NASA. Thanks, Dan for the tip)

Thanks to John for pointing out this winning caption in a contest held by the Sev Wide Web. Scroll down for more entries. Warning: Some may include spoilers for LotR.

The Onion has a short list of tongue-in-cheek reasons why people are investing their hard earned knuts on OotP. (Editor’s Note: The last item on the list isn’t a spoiler per se, but if you haven’t read the book yet it might be construed as one. Just wanted to give a little warning) Thanks to …read more!

There’s been an update to the Lexicon – check out the Ministry of Magic section and an update to the Thestrals entry. Also, work has begun on updating the spell encyclopedia.

To end my first day on a light note, here is (in my humble opinion) a hilarous bit about our favorite wizard by Rupert Goodwins at zdnet. I give you, Harry Potter and The Order of The Fees !

According to an article at theage.com.uk a school in Melbourne has banned Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix from library shelves. Thanks go out to Vanessa in Sydney for the tip! 🙂