The Bath Chronicle has more details about Guy Mason in the Harry Potter movie: Guy will be seen by many more people when the film version of the first Harry Potter novel hits the screens later this year. Guy was one of many from the area to get a small starring role in the blockbuster …read more!

Today’s Scotsman has a transcript of the BBC Newsround with J.K. Rowling and 10 yr old Victor Greenstreet.

In their yearly report, Churchill China has announced they’ve received a license to produce Harry Potter mugs and other giftware: I am pleased to announce that Churchill have secured the Harry Potter licence for both classical (books) and the movie, covering mugs and certain items of giftware. This licence is for the UK and Eire, …read more!

Today’s Daily Telegraph reports that Claire Field has won her legal row with Warner Bros. over the domain name harrypotterguide.co.uk. Harry Potter fan’s victory A 15-YEAR-OLD Harry Potter fan from York has won a legal battle with Warner Bros, which had ordered her to hand over the domain name to her tribute website. Warner, which …read more!

A reader emailed us this interesting snippet from Page 11 of the Birmingham Evening Mail: Children are clamouring to get glasses so they can look like their fictional hero Harry Potter, according to opticians.

According to the LA Times, Harry Potter publisher Scholastic “beat the street” in their third quarter financial results mostly due to the boy wizard.

Warner Bros. has put the World version of the Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone trailer on their Web site. According to Harry Potter Galleries, only the title and release date has been changed.

The New York Post has an article about the “Muggles” lawsuit. In it we learn how Rowling invented the term Muggle: “It is a twist on the English word mug, which means easily fooled,” she says. “I made it into ‘Muggles’ because it sounds gentler.”

According to the Official Harry Potter Web site, the trailer for the Harry Potter movie will be screened in 219 theaters across the UK on Sunday, March 18th from 12pm – 1pm GMT (and from 11am – 12pm GMT at all UCI cinemas). The best part? It’s free – and they’re giving out mini-posters as …read more!

The San Francisco-Bay Area legal publication The Recorder took note that even judges like Harry Potter: It was a throwaway reference, one easily passed over. Yet it stuck out like a sore thumb. In a convoluted case about the way the Internal Revenue Service taxes employers for their employees’ tips, Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of …read more!