Movie-launch parties and events are going on all over the world. For info about the Salem event, scroll down. To see what’s going on in NYC, visit Ali Wildgoose’s Diagon Alley site. And if you’ll be in Orlando, see what other HP fans plan to do at Disney World’s Downtown Disney on the 16th and …read more!

On tv in the U.S. this week: Monday: Daniel Radcliffe will be on The Today Show on NBC. Tuesday, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint will feature on Today and Daniel Radcliffe will be on MTV’s Total Request Live. If you’re not in the US< you might be able to catch him in their Green Room …read more!

An article in the Contra Costa times quotes a representative of online ticketsellers Fandango as saying “The demand that you’re seeing for ‘Harry Potter’ is certainly, in an online ticketing capacity, something we’ve never seen before.” A similar-themed article from the Associated Press has a spokeswoman for Movietickets.com quoted as saying that the Potter sales …read more!

Nielsen’s online ratings company, which monitors hits to websites, says that the Official Site has shown a market increase in hits over the past six weeks, as around 573,000 unique visitors hit the Web site during the week ended November 4th — a 239 percent increase from the 169,000 visitors during the same period of …read more!

Did you miss the Salem Witches at the Quidditch World Cup? Well, get tickets to the Salem Magickal Arts Center’s Night in Celebration of Harry Potter, beginning at 8pm, Friday, November 16th at 102 Washington St., 2nd Floor, Salem MA. Enjoy Strange Brews and Good eats, bid in a Silent Auction of Magickal Tools donated …read more!

Wow – in what seemed like a run-of-the-mill HP preview, Entertainment Weekly ran this in their character sketch on Dumbledore: Owes his life to Hagrid…though that has yet to be explained. Have they gotten their hands on some of that to-literally-die-for info that Robbie Coltrane was hinting at? If so, big kudos to EW.

The Scholastic Store is planning a whole week of activities: Monday, November 12th through Friday, November 16th from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Harry Potter Movie Countdown Celebration: Stop by The Scholastic Store- the ultimate Harry Potter destination in NYC – for a spectacular build-up to the movie opening on the 16th! Meet other Harry …read more!

Sci-Fi Wire (via Harry Potter Connection) has an article about Emma Watson and how she’s eager to be turned into a cat in Chamber of Secrets.

We’ve heard that Musicnotes.com, an online sheet music store, has a license from Warner Bros. Publications to publish the music to the movie. Musicnotes technology allows users to instantly see, hear and print legally copyrighted digital sheet music on any home, office or school computer. By downloading the free Musicnotes Player, the user can interact …read more!

Parselforce sent us a great review from the London screening of the movie, last night – click here to read it. Again, Rupert Grint is praised as the doing an excellent job: Most of the acting was great – Ron IS the film, he’s brilliant – bloody brilliant – Hermione was pretty good too. Snape …read more!