I know many friends of mine will join me today in wishing actor Jason Isaacs, who plays luscious Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films, a very, very happy 44th birthday! Many cheers Jason! Happy Birthday!

If you use Facebook, the popular social networking site, we have something for you: Super!Alex Robbin, one of our senior staff programmers, had a few extra minutes (we are out of supleratives for the kid, seriously) and so created a Facebook application for the Leaky countdowns and PotterCast. You can add it to your profile …read more!

Even more scans from the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix sticker/poster book we’ve been showing you are now online, courtesy of Portkey.it. This new batch features, among others, our first look at Percy Weasley in this slightly spoiler-rific scan from the film. We also see: A new scan of Harry and Ron, …read more!

Electronic Arts, the makers of the Harry Potter video games, officially announced a new contest for fans to win a free copy of the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Nintendo Wii video game. Beginning today, when you sign up for the OotP video game newsletter, you are automatically entered into a drawing …read more!

It’s the last pre-recorded edition of PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast, before we hit the road for summer tour and read book seven in July! To listen, just hit the “Play” button on the right side of the page (—>), or use iTunes, or direct download. -We discuss the upcoming new theme park “Wizarding World …read more!

The Detroit Free Press has a new interview this morning with artist Mary GrandPre about the work she does illustrating the US editions of the Harry Potter novels. Stating again she can not speak about her thoughts having been one of the very few to have already read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as …read more!

The calendar on JKRowling.com has been updated for June 5th to wish Hogwarts student, and apparent budding Death Eater, Draco Malfoy a Happy Birthday. Cheers Draco!

Thousands of EBGames and GameStop stores around the country will be hosting special Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix video game preview events, in the lead up to the game’s release on June 25. Taking place on June 16th, “Aficionados will have the opportunity to play the latest Harry Potter video game for …read more!

Thanks to our friends at HarryPotterFanZone, we now know that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be published in Greece on November 3, 2007. Thanks Matt!

As we reported previously, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was nominated for the ‘Best Summer Movie You Haven’t Seen Yet’ in the 2007 MTV Movie Awards along with fellow summer releases such as Rush Hour 3, Hairspray, The Fantastic Four, Transformers and Evan Almighty. During the awards ceremony that aired live tonight, …read more!