Hey guys, we’re back. Sorry for the downtime, and thanks to those who e-mailed about it. Apparently, our server goes kaplooie when the people in the U.S. wake up and beat the server into submission. 🙂 But the people who host our site are fantastic, wonderful, and are keeping an eye on the problem. So, …read more!

Hoover’s Online brings us a list of toys nominated for the “People’s Choice Toy of the Year” (which includes the Harry Potter Slime Chamber), and instructions on how to cast a vote.

Two columnists from the Toronto Sun air their opinions on the “Harry Potter is occult” debate. (Note: adult themes) Quotage from Michael Coren: “Love figures large in these books and movies, as does loyalty, morality and the fact that the attractive and prosperous often have much to learn from the plain and poor …” And …read more!

Die Another Day beat HP at the box office this wekeend, according to BoxOfficeMojo, pulling in $47 million to Harry’s $42. But Harry’s total is now up to $148.5 million – huge for a sequel.

The Asahi Shimbun reports that more than 1 million people flocked to see Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which opened Saturday in Japan.

Thanks Eleanor, for this link to WireImage showing us pics of Daniel Radcliffe in a play – and a dress. (Hey, at least he’s taking risks.) The play is directed by Kenneth Branagh; find more info here. (Thanks Leda, too!)

Scotland on Sunday reports that around 400 cast and crew are expected to arrive in the Fort William area in the new year to begin filming Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Gloucester Cathedral has been vandalized… Vandals have caused considerable damage to a cathedral which featured in the Harry Potter Films. The culprits smashed 26 Victorian stained glass windows in a cathedral used as a setting for Hogwarts School. Three youths were seen running away from the 900-year-old Gloucester cathedral at about the time the damage …read more!

Hey guys, just a quick update on the whole Sothebys, Book-5-card thing. We’re talking to lawyers, but it looks like it could happen. Soon. TLC would incoporate as a non-profit charity corporation, and that can be done in a day (Monday, one hopes). If that happens, the rest is cake, and we could be looking …read more!

We just got this in – apparently, there’s going to be a “Free Dobby” rally on Fountain Square in Downtown Cincinnati on November 26 (Tuesday) – our reports say it will take place behind the glass wall of the WKRC-TV morning news show, and ralliers are planning on coming out with signs insisting on the …read more!