Perhaps I wasn’t so far off when I joked about a cancellation of the Quidditch Match in my hometown of Wilbraham, MA during a large snow storm. One of my brothers emailed me this story about the East Meadow School a few towns over where they do play a modified version of the game. It …read more!

Gene Shalit had only good things to say about the Harry Potter trailer on the Today Show this week: Sixty-two years ago, back in 1939, the whole country, and especially America’s book readers, were in a frenzy of expectation. They were waiting for the movie version of “Gone With the Wind.” Now here we go …read more!

A reader forwarded us this cute review of the Comic Relief books by a 9-year old. It appeared in the Canberra Times: I AM NEARLY 10 years old, and have known and loved Harry Potter for half my life. I expect to love him for all the rest of it too. Like everyone else, I …read more!

In today’s news, there’s always reports of child stars who’s lives fall apart. According to this article in the National Post Online, Daniel Radcliffe will do just fine.

This morning’s Daily Telegraph had an interesting item under City Diary: RAILTRACK has disappointed a bunch of journalists from Taiwan television. They had asked if they could come over and film Platform 9 3/4 at King’s Cross, where Harry Potter catches the Hogwarts Express to school. “We told them it didn’t exist,” says a Railtrack …read more!

The Register and ZDNet both report on the resolution of Claire Field’s case against Warner Bros.

According to Harry Potter Galleries, “Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe was on British TV today and presented a cheque for 421,669 Galleons, 3 Sickles and 13 Knuts! That’s the money the two charity books raised so far for Comic Relief! (for Muggles: more than 2 million british pounds)”

Read Nancy Stouffer’s complaint for yourself. UNBELIEVABLE some of the claims she makes. A more intelligent, thorough rant from me to come. UPDATE: It looks like HogwartsWire was taken offline by Tripod. Therefore we’re posting our own copy of the Nancy Stouffer vs. J.K. Rowling et al.

The Harry Potter Galleries is on a roll for the weekend – they’ve released two spectacular new features. The first is a contest to make your own cover for “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.” The second is a list of different statistics from all four books and different versions. I especially like …read more!

Harry Potter Galleries reports that Silicon.com has an article about the overwhelming popularity of the Official Harry Potter Web site. Call it “sour grapes” but most of the fan sites out there produce WAY more news then the “once every two weeks” movie teaser or picture from Warner Bros. I’m guessing 99.9% of the traffic …read more!