Monarch Hotel pastry chef Dan Michel created a huge, 3 feet tall, 5 feet wide model of Hogwarts for the holidays using marzipan, gingerbread and 15 pounds of chocolate. The scene includes Harry Potter flying his Nimbus 2000.

Scholastic discusses the killing they are making by selling the Harry Potter books.

I was amazed to see that the Warner Brothers Online Store has closed for the holiday season because they cannot promise any more deliveries by X-Mas. What a mistake! I don’t know about anyone else, but before I go to a brick-and-mortar store, I like to browse their Web site to see what type of …read more!

Pottermania comes to Vietnam.

Coal Tyee Elementary School is doing a “Harry Potter Novel Exchange” where students will coorespond via email with students from other elementary schools pretending they are a particular character from the Harry Potter series. Replying students will do the same. I wish we did stuff like this in elementary school.

Let the real hype begin. Garth of Dark Horizons has captured the Harry Potter teaser poster.

Harry Potter book author J.K. Rowling adds a cancer charity to her list of good causes. She is also heavily involved with the National Council of One Parent Families and multiple sclerosis efforts. (Rowling’s mother Anne died from MS in 1990 at age 45.)

As the Holiday merchandizing buildup begins, Borders Books & Music are offering gift cards for use both online and at stores with the picture from the cover of “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” on the front while Barnes & Nobel is discounting all of their Harry Potter books to 40%.

Harry Potter vs. the Environment ?? An interesting story from the Environmental News Network about what it took to bring all the copies of “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” that people ordered from Amazon.

From TheForce.Net:Soundtrackmag.com reports that John Williams is still working on the music for Harry Potter. In fact, he’s doing something very special for the trailer: SOUNDTRACKMAG.COM has now confirmed that Mr. Williams is not only still on the project, but has recently scored and recorded a new trailer for the film that will contain his …read more!