A few people have emailed us to let us know that Waterstones has announced the hours for all their locations in Ireland, Northern Ireland, the UK, Scotland and Europe. We’re holding off listing these in MUARI individually until we have information about specific events. So feel free to let us know if you contact your …read more!

The Brazilian website Harry Potter O Filme has posted a high quality scan of the trio’s grown up pose in Vanity Fair.

HP movie actress Fiona Shaw (Petunia Dursley) did not win the Tony Award this evening; she was nominated for playing the title role in Medea, but Vanessa Redgrave was awarded for her turn in Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Having seen both performances, I think it’s worthwhile to note that both were Tony-worthy; …read more!

With book five approaching, The Guardian has published an article marveling at the neverending marketing potential of Harry Potter. Said Diane Nelson, senior vice president of marketing at Warner Bros, “The success is unprecedented. Harry Potter is a bigger property than anything else we at Warner Bros have seen. The interest is equal in Britain, …read more!

You’ll notice that with the creation of our new Floo Network comes a new set of domains. First, the Harry Potter Lexicon has acquired a new domain name – http://www.hp-lexicon.org. You can now find Quick Quotes at http://www.quick-quote-quill.org and the Hogwarts Galleries at http://www.hogwarts-gallery.org. Be sure to change your links and bookmarks!

As many may remember, when Jim Dale read Goblet of Fire, he had claimed to have done 125 different voices. Well, in the recent Wall Street Journal article he says he’s done 134. In fact, his Web site has recently been updated to mention the same as well. So what? Well if you think about …read more!

I received an email this morning from a producer of a National Weekend Morning News show who is looking for some people to be in a segment to air the morning of Saturday, June 21st across the US. He is looking for two things: I wonder if you know of any Harry Potter events planned …read more!

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal contained an article on the audio book version of OotP. You must subscribe to the WSJ to view the article there, but here are some of the relevant quotes. The recorded book lasts 26 hours and 30 minutes — the sports equivalent of attending more than nine Major League Baseball games. …read more!

Ananova reports that tomorrow night’s television program “The Importance of Being Morrissey” will feature an interview given by JK Rowling about her favorite singer. The show will air on Channel 4 in the UK, at 11:15pm.

There are a few HP school sweaters for sale on eBay. Also, TM Athletics will apparently custom make Hogwarts House sweaters (email [email protected], attention Jim Hopkins, for more details). Thanks to Lady Midori for the information.