Schools all over the world are feeling the pressures of the economy according to the Plymouth Evening Herald. Last week, a total of 700 books were removed from the shelves of Thornbury Primary in Estover, Plymouth in the UK because budget pressures meant it could no longer afford to remain a member of the city …read more!

BBC’s Newsround is having a contest to win not only a copy of the Chamber of Secrets DVD but also “Potter toys, Potter sweets and even Potter clothing”. All you have to do is enter this drawing by June 2.

Apparently “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” is not playing so well in Indian theatres…. and it’s not the only sequel having trouble there: Historically, Indian audiences have not taken kindly to sequels, even the most high-profile Hollywood ones. Currently, the second of the Harry Potter movies, The Chamber Of Secrets, is playing in …read more!

A Sunday Mail article discusses a proposed owl-training school for 50 of the nocturnal birds in Cambeltown, Argyll, Scotland. The location, to be built by Rod & Nicky Angus, has been influenced by the bird appearances in the Harry Potter series.

The Pakistan Daily Times has an interesting editorial from columnist Kaleem Omar. The question is, what does Rowling plan to do with all the money? She’s already given up her small unheated flat in a midlands city and bought a huge manor house in the country, where she is living in baronial splendour, surrounded by …read more!

We received an article from This is Brighton & Hove about a boy named Elliott Stubbs playing a “continuity extra” in the upcoming Prisoner of Azkaban. We only have the text and we’ll post the URL as soon as it appears on the Web site. Here’s some snippets: Schoolboy Elliott Stubbs is acting out every …read more!

It looks like even The Sunday Times is getting into the spirit with a bit of Fan Fiction of their own. A reader sent us this snippet of a brief intermission between the last book and this one: The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close as Harry Potter sat …read more!

…the books about them are selling like pumpkin pasties. According to the Sunday Sun, books about the Department for Education and Skills’ controversial Standard Assessment Tests may actually outsell Harry Potter in the Northern UK.

Thanks to Lana: This saturday’s Nancy cartoon has a cute reference to all the goings on regarding the upcoming HP launch.

On May 22, 2002, the Discovery Fund For Eye Research begins it’s 10 day Seeing the Stars celebrity eyewear charity auction on eBay. Chris Columbus and the Producers of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets have generously donated a prop Howler from that film to auction. Find out more about the organiztion at their …read more!