As we all get closer to the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, many media articles are taking a closer look at the Harry Potter series. The USA Today has an interesting piece about fans traveling to Edinburgh, Scotland before the release, and possible locales in the city and beyond that may have …read more!

The official UK Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix website has been updated with the good news that the premiere of the film in London on July 3 will be streamed live on the web, starting at 1700 BST. You can find out what time that is where you live, via this link. …read more!

To celebrate ten years since the first publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the Globe and Mail newspaper in Canada is due to carry a full-page advertisement this weekend commemorating the occasion. Anyone with scans please send them in! On a related note, there is an interesting article from a reporter with the …read more!

Our video galleries angels have been hard at work, and thanks to Chris and the Crew we have a batch of new videos for you to enjoy. WB sent us those 11 preview clips from the new Harry Potter movie that we told you about the other day, and we now have them in our …read more!

ODEON theaters in the UK have launched a new contest, UK residents who book tickets online to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will automatically be entered into a drawing to win a special visit to the Harry Potter set. One winner and a guest will travel to Leavesden Studios, where the Harry …read more!

In addition to the ‘Harry Potter Book Club” discussion panel that took place during the Phoenix Rising conference last May in New Orleans, Borders has now released video of the much talked about “Great Snape Debate” panel that also took place during the conference. The panel of Snape supporters and dissenters, that includes our own …read more!

UK Harry Potter publishers Bloomsbury have issued a press release about the audio book for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. As we told you previously, in the UK, the audio book was to be released for the first time in as the books for “Deathly Hallows,” and the publishers have listed some additional information …read more!

Hey Frisco – just kidding! We know not to call you that. We’ll just call you San Fran instead. Just kidding again. Anyway, the PotterCast Tour hits San Francisco (“the city,” eh? City of snakes? No? OK) later today – 5 p.m. Pacific time – at the Borders in Stonestown – 233 Winston Drive, San …read more!

The Australian is reporting, a very serious computer worm (a self-replicating computer program) is being spread to computers via what people think is a word document file containing the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book stored on a flash drive, or similar medium. The W32/Hairy-A worm is spread to Windows users primarily through USB …read more!

As we reported last week, the Australian publishers of the Harry Potter series Allen and Unwin, had opened their ‘J. K. Rowling and the Midnight Signing’ contest for Australian and New Zealand fans to enter. The competition has now closed and the winners have been announced. The four winners, three from Austrialia and one from …read more!