ChrisRankin.com has announced that Chris Rankin, who plays the role of Percy Weasley in the Harry Potter movies, will be participating in 3 Book V launch events – one in Norwich for the midnight release and two on Saturday; one in Barking and another in Windsor.

The Scholastic Book V site is now live containing the SPOILERS that were found in the most recent Scholastic catalogue.

Well folks, I’ve been hinting liberally over the past couple weeks of a big project I’ve been working on to bring you the maximum amount of fandom participation in the upcoming launch of Order of the Phoenix – I wanted to wait until we had exactly 30 days to go and so I have – …read more!

Barnes & Noble, today, announced that most stores will be open the night of Friday, June 20th for the release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. (Editor’s Note:: Most likely those stores within malls will have to negociate the mall staying open. I’m inclined to believe that all standalone stores will be …read more!

Sandra emailed us this article from a local paper in Glencoe with some great details about the filming: Warner Brothers has been inundated with requests from kids and parents to be extras on set during the location shoot in the gloomy glen. Warner Brothers’ spokeswoman Vanessa Davies said yesterday: “We would say to children or …read more!

The BBC picked up an article from the Wall Street Journal today on some of the stats for book sales in the US. Scholastic will ship 8.5 million copies of the book to shops in time for its release. The marketing campaign will cost between $3-4m (£1.8-2.5m). The four previous Harry Potter books have sold …read more!

Well, fellow witches & wizards (and sneaky muggles) – it begins. Over the next month you’ll be seeing hundreds of articles about one of the largest launches in the history of the book – TLC even has something due out this week to celebrate this massive undertaking. Scholastic has announced a huge marketing campaign including …read more!

Thanks to David for sending us this snippet from The Week Magazine. It sounds like Arthur Weasley will have his hands full: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Denounce your neighbor: The Saudi religious police have launched a Web site where Saudis can anonymously accuse their neighbors of violating religious laws, MEMRI.org reported this week. In one post, …read more!

The BBC has an update about Azkaban filming at Glencoe over the weekend. Rain has been hampering progress over the past week. Hagrid’s hut has been built and there is a smallish castle structure too, says one local councillor.

An interesting article in the Canberra Times discusses a bookseller whose just started reading Book 1. It also contains some information about the release of Book V, on Saturday, June 21st at 9am in Australia: I’ve only just started reading the first few chapters of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and already Harry’s my …read more!