According to Deb from Sylvan Lane Shoppe, Wizards of the Coast will also be putting out collectible cards of movie characters: The WB release of the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone movie is a major event in the lives of Harry Potter fans worldwide. But the screen magic doesn’t end there. Harry Potter and …read more!

Reader Lynsey Marshall from Victoria, Australia sent us this bit of news: Sweet Success ! On the 13th of August (2 days ago) a Ballarat Mars Lolly Company (in the state of Victoria, Australia) announced it had signed a deal with Warnerbros. to produce the full range of Harry Potter Sweets. There will be 14 …read more!

Some of the previous Letters to the Editor in Florida Today about Harry Potter (Thanks to Tagesprophet Nachtausgabe) .

Our reader Laura, sent us this picture and article from this month’s Premiere Magazine: If the words Hogwarts, Quidditch, and Gryffindor mean nothing to you, you probably haven’t been within a brooms’ throw of a bookstore for the past three years. Based on the first of author JK Rowling’s mega-bestselling Harry Potter novels, this film …read more!

Some interesting Letters to the Editor in Florida Today about a recent editorial covering the view that Harry Potter is anti-Christian.

Here’s the article that set off the rumor that J.K. Rowling has Writer’s Block. (Thanks to Countingdown.com)

Reuters reports on the latest with Book 5 stating that there is no confirmed release date. The most current speculation is that the book will be published in July 2002. In a statement Rowling says she is happily writing away but wants to make sure “that Book Five was not dashed off to meet a …read more!

Countingdown.com has posted an article from the Daily Mail that looks at the controversy of Warner Bros. allowing huge toy rivals Hasbro and Mattel create their own trading card games. Hasbro, of course, owns Wizards of the Coast while Mattel has started distributing Casting Stones for their card game with their action figures. From a …read more!

This is London has a great article about the recent launch of the Harry Potter Trading Card Game.

Pojo.com has posted a Harry Potter CCG patch for the virtual Card Game program Apprentice. They’ve also set up a league for playing games and have setup a channel on IRC. So download and install the programs, and when you’re ready to play some games, come to irc.mediadriven.com and join #PoJoHP.