Thanks much to TLC reader Cassandra M, we now have video here in our galleries of one of the new commercials airing on NBC for the upcoming Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park attraction at Universal Orlando due to open next Spring. On a related note, we’ve gotten a tip that the Wizarding World …read more!

The students at Oxford University, Magdalen College have given one of their common rooms a bit of the Harry Potter magic, for the Telegraph reports a motion has passed renaming the Magdalen College Junior Common Room ‘Gryffindor’ after the Hogwarts House. Zoe Tyndall, a student who voted in favor of the first name change on …read more!

Actors Tom Felton (Draco) and Bonnie Wright (Ginny) were among those interviewed for Belgium magazine Het Nieuwsblad (scan here) where they spoke about filming of the epilogue for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In a translation below, Tom said it would probably be the last scene they filmed and Bonnie spoke again about making …read more!

The Orlando Sentinel has a very brief report online noting that the first commercial spots for the upcoming Wizarding World of Harry Potter Theme Park have begun airing “on a limited basis,” according to Universal spokesman Tom Schroder. Readers who are able to capture video of these commercials, please do send them in to [email protected]. …read more!

Australian morning television show Sunrise Seven has a short video online from a recent Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows set visit, during which actors Dan Radcliffe (Harry), Bonnie Wright (Ginny), Rupert Grint (Ron), and Tom Felton (Draco) spoke briefly about their experience making the film. While discussing the end of the Deathly Hallows production, …read more!

There is word today of some additional gorgeous landscape from the UK that will feature in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. While many beautiful locations have been filmed, notably the beaches of Wales and the highlands of Scotland, today there is news that the Yorkshire Dales will be seen in the final …read more!

The new edition of the newsletter from WarnerBlu contains a bonus for subscribers: This new clip (or here in our galleries) from the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Ultimate Edition DVD featuring Rupert Grint then and now on the chess scene at the end of the movie. You can also see caps of this …read more!

As readers will recall, Harry Potter actor Dan Radcliffe will be profiled in a book by photographer Tim Hailand, One Day In the Life of Daniel Radcliffe. Today, our Order Partner DanRadcliffe.com reports that a new photo from the photographic book of actor has appeared online showing the Mr. Radcliffe fresh from the shower at …read more!

Next month, there will be a very large auction for a number of rare and valuable collection of children’s literature including several Harry Potter novels by author J.K. Rowling. With the auction to take place on December 16th, items of note will include a rare uncorrected proof of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, …read more!

UK newspaper The Telegraph has compiled a series of lists of things that defined this decade. One such list involves the top 100 books, with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling taking the number one spot. Quotage: “If you don’t know what a Muggle is by now, you’re either Rip van Winkle …read more!