From CBBC comes the news that Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is now Britain’s most borrowed book. Previously, author Catherine Cookson held the top spot for seventeen years.

The Cincinnati Enquirer has published the results of their “Write Your Own Potter Prose” contest first announced back in January. (Thanks, Jeff, for the info.)

Thanks, Godric’s Hollow, for your concern (“BBC Snubs Leaky Cauldron”) – but it seems the Daily Mirror, not the BBC, has done the snubbin’. That’s fine. You all know where you got your info, and if a tabloid doesn’t source it’s really no surprise. We’re sure it’s a miscommunication over at BBC and will look …read more!

Variety Magazine reports on the CoS launch party and quotes Robbie Coltrane as saying that his favorite part of the DVD is the Forebidden Forrest tour – three strikes, and spiders overrun the car! The article also quotes Tom Felton as saying: Somebody told me I was going to die… If I do, I hope …read more!

Catch a glimpse of “deleted” scenes from the CoS DVD: “Double Trouble” (Polyjuice), “Lucius Liquidates” (Borgin and Burkes) and “Pop Quiz” (Lockhart) at AOL KEYWORD: Inside The DVD, or at this link. (Thanks ixchelmala!)

Newsround has picked up our story about the Scholastic catalog including a summary for OoTP. You can scroll down on this page and click on the link to read the content of the summary itself – the full text of the spoiler is not posted on this page. And Newsround, being the sensible people they …read more!

Empire Online has a bit about the new casting decisions for PoA. Columbus says: I think [Dawn French is] incredibly funny and her Harry Potter spoof on Comic Relief was pretty amazing. He also doesn’t say whether Ian Brown of the Stone Roses will be in the film or not.

On April Fool’s Day, we received an email from a woman named Rosalind who claimed she had a summary of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix that had appeared in Scholastic’s catalog for Summer/Fall 2003. I refused to believe it (because of the day), but she insisted, and finally sent me a copy …read more!

Newsround has a great report up with lots of tidbits about the third, fourth and fifth movies – check it out! Dawn French is in the new film British actress Julie Christie [click for pictures] will play Three Broomsticks barmaid Madam Rosmerta. And comedienne Dawn French [click for pictures], last seen in the Comic Relief …read more!

Amazon is offering the special edition of book five for $42 – and offers a pic, which shows us how thick it will be. Thanks Jim for the heads-up!