From the official Harry Potter newsletter: “Harry Potter DVD news! Get ready to bring home the magic! The Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone DVD and videocassette are on their way, and you are invited to an exclusive preview! Keep checking back for your sneak peek at a truly amazing interactive Harry Potter experience… only …read more!

For many people, eating chocolate is like a religious experience. Now a Guiseley church is bringing our worship of the sweet stuff into new Sunday services. And it is also linking Harry Potter and even The Simpsons to themes in the Bible to get people into pews. It’s Oscar nomination time in Hollywood. On Tuesday, …read more!

A correction on the link to the little Access Hollywood movie: it was posted by iharrypotter.net and fansdeharrypotter.com. MuggleNet was where I discovered the link, but they didn’t post it – just wanted to make that clear.

Hollywood union publicists have nominated Universal’s “American Pie 2,” Warner’s “Harry Potter”, MGM’s “Legally Blonde,” Fox’s “Moulin Rouge” and DreamWorks’ “Shrek” for its Maxwell Weinberg Award for top feature publicity campaign. (Thanks to the HP Intayside site for the link.)

Thanks again MuggleNet for this link, where you can see a small video capture of the Access Hollywood clip of the unseen footage – meaning Neville jumping next to the Gryffindor table with his legs locked together.

Barnes & Noble.com announced today record one-day pre-order sales of the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone DVD and VHS. CBBC Newsround has more information on the upcoming DVD. Britain’s head prefect. Tony Blair’s Harry Potterish rhetoric may send the wrong sort of message to Europe.

The Amazon.com pre-order page for the DVD has a bunch of interesting facts about the movie on it (thanks MuggleNet for the heads up). Including: Among the portraits on the shifting staircase, you can clearly see a painting of Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII’s second wife and the mother of Queen Elizabeth I. Anne Boleyn …read more!

Reader Milja sent us this better quality pic of Harry with the diary in CoS. It’s from the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. Thanks Milja!

I just read the article Rhiannon linked to below about Wicca and Harry Potter and I have to say – it isn’t often that someone sums up the heart of the Paganism/Harry Potter debate in a few words, but it happens in this article, so I want to reprint it here. “It’s not a cult …read more!

The HP Intayside site points us to this article entitled “A witch’s perspective on spirtuality and Harry Potter.” Having finally been handed a movie that can fly in the same stratosphere as the top-selling videos of all time, Warner Bros. is conjuring all its magic marketing spells — and digging deep into its pocketbook. Harry …read more!