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Just a reminder to vote in the Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Awards! “Harry Potter” is nominated in three categories; favourite book, favourite video game, and favourite movie. Graves-Hume (Illinois) Public Library was recently the site of profound magic. A group of 20 children, each one a member of a generation more likely to be described as …read more!

Harry Potter O Filme (a Brazilian Harry Potter site) has scanned in pictures from a Warner Bros magazine, showing information about the Harry Potter DVD, its marketing plan in Brazil, and more. (Thanks to MuggleNet for the link.) Roy Keane has come in joint fourth on the list of rich young sports stars in Britain, …read more!

Three hours before the first-night curtain went up, Chris Rankin was seen by hundreds of thousands of youngsters on the national Newsround programme. Two hours later he was on the BBC regional Look East news magazine. And 10 hours after the curtain came down, the teenager had to be on the set for the latest …read more!

Confessions of a new Harry Potter fan. Kathryn Ross of the Daily Reporter writes: “Okay, I read “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”, and yes I’m a more than 50-year-old college graduate with a degree in literature. That’s out of the way. I enjoyed the book. I decided I wanted to read Harry Potter, because …read more!

Today’s leading-edge visual effects might not all blow your mind with spectacular explosions, lasers, spaceships and fantastic visions. But they will show you something you haven’t seen before – and make you believe it’s real. Matthew JC. Powell reports. Twins juggle friends, school, sports and insulin shots: The twins are eighth-graders at Swartz Creek Middle …read more!

News from HPGalleries JK Rowling’s former science teacher, who apparently was used as a model for the character of Severus Snape, wrote an article for HPGalleries, “On Being Snape-ish.” We get dozens of email questions every day, please find our answers to the meaningful, best, oddest or most interesting questions in our weekly eMailBag As …read more!

The second Harry Potter film, The Chamber of Secrets, is going to be “really, really, really good” according to Chris Rankin – the actor who plays Percy Weasley. The Oxford University Press will bring out Urdu translations of The Elementary Learner’s Dictionary, The Concise Oxford Dictionary, and of great English classics such as Portrait of …read more!

From the Times (UK): The phone rings. It is Denis MacShane, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister and not, as I had hoped, Mike McShane, the Canadian comedian. It is a good story nonetheless. On Armistice Day last year MacShane was chosen to accompany Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. “I remember she talked a lot …read more!

Even more new DVD features: * New scenes created especially for the DVD. * An interactive ”virtual tour” that lets users navigate through Hogwarts’ Great Hall, Gryffindor Common Room and other locations. * Interviews with producer David Heyman and director Chris Columbus. * A game that lets viewers learn Quidditch and catch a ”Snitch” with …read more!