Some more newsbits on the Harry Potter 2 + 3 movies today: The Harry Potter shoot would encompass 12 (twelve) stages, that include sound stages as well as the gigantic 007 stage at Pinewood Studios in Britain! That seems to confirm our speculation that both movies will be done back to back, possibly even at …read more!

The Sacramento Bee has published a must-read article on the Harry Potter discussion within the Christian community. Here are some excerpts, author of the article is Jennifer Garza Nearly all her life, Connie Neal has tried to follow a righteous path. So why are so many saying she has taken a wrong turn? Neal, 43, …read more!

Amanda passed on this article from the National Post that says the Harry Potter movie is ALREADY getting Oscar buzz: Other movies that are generating Oscar buzz at this early stage include that little-movie-that-could Memento, the fanciful big-screen arrival of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and that Rat Packy update Ocean’s Eleven.

A HUGE update from Premiere Magazine (along with Woman’s Day magazine), (although in all honesty it was scheduled for weeks ago), including some interesting rumors, pictures from their previous paper edition, and a contest with prizes supplied by none other then Deb Martino from the Sylvan Lane Shoppe. I already found the hidden broom – …read more!

Kevin Carlyon, the “High Priest of British White Witches” said JK Rowling, her publisher and the film’s maker deserve to be cursed for not researching witches properly. He claims that Harry is flying his broomstick the wrong way round. The Daily Record reports: “The broomstick is not only for flying. It’s also an important fertility …read more!

John Williams told the Boston Globe, he is hard at work on the score for ”Harry Potter” and plans to complete it at Tanglewood this summer. ”I’m really cooking on it now. I’ve finished about an hour of the score, which means there is a lot left to go. The director Chris Columbus has done …read more!

The Unofficial Harry Potter Fan Club has published a rumor on a possible date for the release of Book 5: Wendy writes to tell us: “I have a definite release date for Harry Potter 5. It will be released February 2002 for sure. My general manger found out at a recent district manager meeting.”

Quidditch strategies in the Wimbledon semifinals Daily Telegraph writer Sue Mott describes how Venus Williams used her “Harry Potter powers” in her semi-final win against fellow American Lindsay Davenport: Williams won 6-2, 6-7, 6-1 because Davenport is twice the tennis player and half the athlete of her opponent. She knew where to put the ball …read more!

The BBC tells us details about an upcoming Harry Potter art auction at Sotheby’s: Two original illustrations for the first Harry Potter book [British edition] are to go on sale at Sotheby’s auction house in London on 10 July. The watercolour of Potter himself is expected to fetch between £20,000 and £25,000. The images, by …read more!

Reuters writer Andrej Shuksin, wrote a very interesting article about the big problems Russia has with its Harry Potter translations. Here are some excerpts: Harry Potter, trainee wizard, or Hamlet, Prince of Denmark? That was the dilemma facing Maria Litvinova, Russia’s top translator and world-renowned expert on Shakespeare, when she agreed to set aside her …read more!