Tickets to CoS are available for showings starting November 15 in the US via Fandango and MovieFone. Huzzah! If you live in LA, there will be a premiere at Mann’s in Westwood on the 14th, reader Eudaemonia has confirmed.

Two from Yahoo news: Harry Potter’s wand box, the blueprints for a “Star Wars” spaceship and Tom Hanks’ helmet from “Saving Private Ryan” all go under the hammer this week. Auctioneer Cooper Owen’s “At the Movies” sale takes place on Thursday. British and Irish churches are being urged to acknowledge the escapades of Harry Potter …read more!

From Yahoo news: Harry Potter may carry a wand, ride a broomstick and count a werewolf among his friends but a new book claims the boy wizard’s adventures are really full of Christian imagery and morals. “I could run a weekly bible study using Harry Potter as a starting point. It is a gold mine …read more!

It seems like this changes from week to week, but website The Star is now reporting that Bloomsbury’s chief executive Nigel Newton has confirmed that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will not appear before the end of the year. “Joanne is happily writing away, but the new Harry Potter will not form …read more!

Jessica in Australia tells us of an interviewlet in TV Week with one of the computer games designers, and reports that at Floriade there will be a Harry Potter Scarecrow made by some primary school kids in the scarecrow display area. It’s complete with Gryffindor tie, scar, glasses, robe, broomstick and latern!

Thanks to Anna for pointing out that the New York premiere has been tagged by AOL-TW as November 10. W00.

The Facer.net, of Alan Rickman rumor fame, has posted a load of COS storyboard pics.

Thanks to Tara for these pics from a Japanese magazine: Sword-wielding Daniel Daniel looking mightily surprised about something Tom Felton making a face Draco would hex him for Felton in character And thanks CKSLON, for this lunchbox pic!

It occurs to me that I’ve never heard people wonder about Moaning Myrtle’s house. Well, in the picture we’ve posted below, it sure looks like she’s wearing a green tie, doesn’t it?

Teenage wizard Harry Potter’s latest disappearing trick is to vanish from travellers’ luggage – it was revealed today that the JK Rowling novels are the most likely books to be left on trains. (From the Yorkshire Post.) The “Word Wizards” of Knightstown High School [Indiana] cast quite a spell on the crowd at Bundy Auditorium …read more!