An interesting article from the Luddite Reader about “The Harry Potter Divide” in reading. It’s almost a year old, but it still applies and we haven’t posted it before.

Flight Zone has 4 Harry Potter kites on display – a 3-foot giant hex kite, a 52″ wingspan Poly Delta with spinner, a 30″ wingspan applique nylon diamond and a 3-D Pop-Kite. (Thanks to the Sylvan Lane Shoppe for the lead)

PopcornUK has an interview with Julie Walters, playing Mrs. Weasley, where she confirms her role for the next few films.

Tiger Electronics has put up more details about the games they’re showing at Toy Fair: Harry Potter Quidditch Game: The game is sculpted like a Nimbus Two Thousand Quidditch broom, that extends to 48 inches in length so that kids can actually “fly” around the field with Harry Potter! Motion sensors inside the game allow …read more!

Mattel has announced a few of the items they will have on display at their showroom during Toy Fair. How’s this for an interesting and somewhat silly toy: Mattel is bringing Harry Potter’s magical world to life with a new friend for kids, Roarin’ Snorin’ Norbert, from the creator of Furby. Norbert, a newly hatched …read more!

The new Xpres Corp. Catalog lists really nifty sculpted Hogwarts House mugs and bowls.

Their site is so good, I had to give them a separate link. If you haven’t checked out the Harry Potter Galleries, hop over there now. They have almost every picture dealing with book covers and movie actors – they tipped me off to where I could find pictures of Will Theakston as well.

Will Theakston (also credited as William Theakston), playing Marcus Flint and Captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team, starred as Roddy Oliver in the BBC television production of “Ghost Hunter.” Check out a whole gallery of pictures of Theakston at “Young Actors of the World”.

It seems a German paper was also hoodwinked into thinking these pictures of Harry Potter were in fact the real McCoys when they happen to be their stand-ins. (Thanks to The Harry Potter Galleries for the link.)

The Disney/Pixar movie Monsters, Inc. moves up their release date in order to remain competitive with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Sounds like they have a fear that if they come out after Harry Potter’s release that they will be sorely overlooked. That’s good news.