Kidscreen Magazine gives us some insight to more Harry Potter products: “Standouts in the toy area include a large and highly-detailed Hogwarts Castle (Mattel); dioramas depicting scenes from the movie (Mattel); as well as an array of gross-out candies, such as ear wax- and vomit-flavored jelly beans, and chocolate frogs (both from Hasbro).” Finally official …read more!

More Toy news from the New York Daily News: “Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone” toys arrive in September, ahead of the November opening. A Hogwarts 3-D game will be out in September ($29.99), along with Professor Snape’s Potion Class ($24.99) and McGonagall’s Twilight Transformers ($24.99). Snape’s Potion Class and Twilight Transformers? Those are new …read more!

*sigh* It looks like Muggles has become slang for Marijuana….

The LA Times has an article about how new toys are leaving nothing to the imagination anymore. Included is a description of Mattel’s new Roarin’ Snorin’ Norbert: “Mattel’s Roarin’ Snorin’ Norbert ($ 40), a baby dragon from the Harry Potter books, is an undeniably cute plush toy. It awakes to a touch with lots of …read more!

Finally we have confirmation from J.K. Rowling’s publisher, Bloomsbury Press (via the Glasgow Herald) that it is highly unlikely Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will be printed in this year. The article makes light of some interesting subjects including that J.K. pushed up the timetable in order to not rush the book …read more!

The Harry Potter Galleries has scored twice today with detailed quotes and information about Book 5, which Amazon is now letting you pre-order and is not due out until 2002. What’s great about these quotes, is that Rames actually cites and links to the official articles from which they came – a researcher after my …read more!

Absolutely amazing. The Harry Potter Galleries has both updated and reorganized their “Movie Actors” page, making it easier to read and offering insight as to who still hasn’t been cast yet. They also added a much better picture of David Bradley who is playing Argus Filch – this picture looks VERY Filch-like.

The Italian publisher of the Harry Potter series will be releasing their translation for Goblet of Fire on this Friday, 02/16.

Today is Valentine’s Day – the perfect day to eat chocolate and ward off any Dementors lurking in your psyche.

According to the Nordic Business Report, the 4th Harry Potter book (Goblet of Fire) will be printed in Finnish today. “Some 60,000 copies of ‘Harry Potter ja liekehtiva pikari‘ have been printed, a record size edition for this type of book in Finland. Tammi, a publisher, has said that half the first edition has already …read more!