One is a millionaire author who has become Britain’s wealthiest self-made woman, the other works as an office clerk. Yet the bond between the Harry Potter author, JK Rowling and her close friend Fiona Wilson, forged when they were both single mothers living in Edinburgh, is clearly a very strong one. The Scots-based writer has …read more!

It appears as though author Nora Roberts is the hottest seller right behind JKR in the US. Scotland has more millionaires than ever, with the 100 wealthiest sharing a record combined wealth of almost £10bn, according to a new survey of the country’s richest people. The top 100 richest people in Scotland, who had a …read more!

Thanks to reader Sandy: Today my family attended a special concert for children in by the Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra which included the national premiere of John Williams’ Symphonic Suite from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Here is a link from the local paper ). It was really an enjoyable event with a magical master …read more!

Reader Katie let us know that the Chapters.ca website has posted the following: “We can hardly wait – the fifth of Harry’s high-flying adventures will appear in the fall of 2002! Sign up here to receive e-mail notices as we find out more about this exciting event!” More at the link.

Daniel Radcliffe will appear Wednesday, 10 April, on David di Donatello, an Italian movie award show. According to this article (written in Italian): “[among the show’s highlights,] the exclusive appearance of the Harry Potter of the silver screen, young actor Daniel Radcliffe, who will be speaking from the set at Oxford where he is shooting …read more!

From the editorial pages of the Boston Globe: “In his dreams, President Bush is Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter’s caring headmaster who left no wizard behind. Unlike Dumbledore, Bush wants us to believe in a wand with no zap, a Gringotts with no cash, and a train platform called Nine and Three Quarters, not for sorcery …read more!

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Just a reminder to vote in the Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Awards! “Harry Potter” is nominated in three categories; favourite book, favourite video game, and favourite movie. Graves-Hume (Illinois) Public Library was recently the site of profound magic. A group of 20 children, each one a member of a generation more likely to be described as …read more!

Harry Potter O Filme (a Brazilian Harry Potter site) has scanned in pictures from a Warner Bros magazine, showing information about the Harry Potter DVD, its marketing plan in Brazil, and more. (Thanks to MuggleNet for the link.) Roy Keane has come in joint fourth on the list of rich young sports stars in Britain, …read more!

Three hours before the first-night curtain went up, Chris Rankin was seen by hundreds of thousands of youngsters on the national Newsround programme. Two hours later he was on the BBC regional Look East news magazine. And 10 hours after the curtain came down, the teenager had to be on the set for the latest …read more!