[I love that title …!] From Asia Times Online comes this article on the possiblity of legal action being taken against the producers of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, alleging that Dobby the House-Elf is based on the likeness of Vladimir Putin, president of Russia.

Daniel Radcliffe will present the award for Best Technical Achievement at The Evening Standard British Film Awards this Sunday. (Read more here; thanks to Maria for the link.)

Coming Soon reports that Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets has overtaken Jurassic Park to become the third highest grossing international release of all time.

Thanks to those of you who have written in to tell us that MovieFone is reporting that PoA will debut on June 11, 2004. We’ve checked into it, “Summer 2004” is still the official go-ahead here. Perhaps Moviefone is guessing – maybe it’s necessary for their recordkeeping, to have some sort of date. PoA probably …read more!

The “Harry Potter” series is at the top of the American Library Association’s list of books most challenged in 2002. Edit: Heidi also wanted me to mention that Judith Krug, Director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, will be the Friday keynote speaker at Nimbus 2003!

The BAFTA nominations were announced this morning, and icLiverpool has the full list here. Chamber of Secrets pulled three nominations, including Production Design, Sound and Achievement in Special Visual Effects. Thanks to Julez for the link.

A neat little story about Belfast, which hosted the now famous author a few weeks before she was famous. Harry Potter author JK Rowling will be given a second chance to weave her magic spell on Belfast when she arrives back in town this summer. For the last time JK turned up for a book …read more!

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets has won the Broadcast Film Critics Association Critics’ Choice Award for Best Family Film (live action). John Williams also won in the Best Composer category.

The Sun (yes, we know!) has an article comprised of suggestions from Harry Potter fans as to what may happen in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Some of you have inquired as to whether the American editions of OotP will be edited in the same way as the other four books have been; we don’t precisely know, but I did get word today that both JKR’s American and British editors are working on the book. Intuition says it will be the …read more!