To comment on Rames’ latest rumor, I’m guessing Margolyes will be playing Prof. Sprout, since the Herbology teacher has an prominent supporting role in Chamber of Secrets. Unless she is playing an unnamed character, the only other characters I can think of would be Mrs. Mason or Mrs. Granger.

Movie 2 Rumor: A Reuters story about Model Sophie Dahl contained the following line about an upcoming London West End play: “She will appear in a cast with Miriam Margolyes, who returns to the stage before filming ‘Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets’.” Hollywood.com writes about her: “A short, heavy-set British character actress, Margolyes …read more!

Movie Headlines has an update on Christian Bale being up for Remus Lupin: Christian says he is “very interested in working with Aronofsky”. That said, he’s hoping Darren Aronofsky’s “Batman Beyond” gets off the ground so he can put his hand up to play Batman. Earlier today, Bale’s agent got in touch with us to …read more!

Empire Online has an article about this week’s Entertainment Weekly magazine and an article in it about the movie. (Thanks to Eli)

Eli sent us this article from This Is Hertfordshire about Harry Melling, playing Dudley Dursley.

Jonathan sent us a report from the teletext service on Channel 4 stating that Hugh Grant is out of Harry Potter 2 (Sep 28, 2001). “Hugh Grant has been forced to drop out of Harry Potter 2 because of a busy schedule. He was due to have played Professor Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter The …read more!

About 300 million people emailed us about the “third trailer” being seen on TV during the season premiere of “Friends.” Hopefully one of you is smart enough to tape it and digitize it. Also, a few mentioned seeing a different commercial in front of “ER” tonight (different from the one in front of Friends) as …read more!

Lindsay has an interesting theory about the third trailer: Hey, i just wanted to know something. The third trailer was SUPPOSED to come out this month. Well, I have hunch i would like to research a bit. The last trailer came out on June 28th if im not mistaken. The new movie “Hearts in Atlantis” …read more!

Matt has sent us a note that CheapFrills.org has added a Harry Potter Crystal Ball. In it flashes Harry, Hagrid, Dumbledore and Hedwig from the movie.

Eli passed on this note about Harry Potter STILL causing problems in US schools regarding bannings.