Electronic Arts, the makers of the Harry Potter video games, sent us a great new clip featuring a virtual tour of sorts of Hogwarts Castles. This video, which you can see here in our galleries, takes you through the various levels of the magical castle, and highlights some of the fun things you might encounter …read more!

MTV has a new interview with Kenneth Branagh who discusses his roles as Gilderoy Lockhart in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.” The acclaimed actor says he was never approached about returning to “Order of the Phoenix” to film the part of Lockhart at St. Mungo’s. “It would have been nice to have been …read more!

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Jo introduced us to the idea of a Horcrux back in her second Harry Potter book: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. In CoS, we see Tom Marvolo Riddle bit it in the final scene when Harry destroys the Diary that caused all the turmoil throughout Harry’s second year at Hogwarts. Little did we …read more!

Lord Voldemort aka Tom Marvolo Riddle… half-blood wizard out for revenge upon the muggle world? His true origins are unknown to all but a select few and we saw how Bella reacted when she heard Harry tell her that her Dark Lord was not a pure-blood wizard as she came to think but a half-blood, …read more!

Severus Snape, Potions Master, disliked most intently by Harry Potter and most student at Hogwarts as well as most readers. At the end of Half-Blood Prince we watch as Snape seems to ruthlessly kill Albus Dumbledore, his teacher but the question remains: Why is he the way he is? Is Snape really evil? and Did …read more!

For everything Ron Weasley! How do you feel about this third of our beloved trio? Do you think he’s lazy, or just used to living in the shadow of first his brothers and now the most famous wizard in modern history? (Don’t tell You Know Who I said that!) What are yout theories about Ron? …read more!

Ediciones Salamandra, the Spanish language publishers the Harry Potter novels, have today announced the release date for their translations of seventh book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” These editions are set to hit store shelves at 18:30 (6:30 pm) in Spain, the United States, and throughout Latin America on February 21, 2008. In addition …read more!

As announced earlier this year, there is to be a new Harry Potter attraction as part of the Universal Orlando theme park in Florida. While this park is not set to open until late 2009 or early 2010, there have been many rumors regarding this park for sometime, with another new rumor surfacing today at …read more!

As part of the release of the Dutch translation of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” author J.K. Rowling has given a new interview to the Dutch newspaper “The Volkskrant.” While this interview is in Dutch (link to an elaborate animated page showcasing this interview in the style of a Daily Prophet paper, here), TLC …read more!