Drumroll, please….: First of all – thank you, thank you to everyone who sent us designs for the site. We received well over a hundred mock-ups of our site, and it was incredibly eye-opening. We have taken so long making a decision because it was pretty near impossible to do so with the talent that …read more!

The Gulf Daily News [Bahrain] reports that “the latest Harry Potter adventure may be published in time for Christmas, best-selling British author J K Rowling hinted in an interview in The Times newspaper yesterday. ‘Probably’, replied the writer, when asked if her millions of fans could expect a Christmas present from her.” Chris Columbus has …read more!

Laura informed us that the official site now has postcards from Chamber of Secrets available for the sending.

Daniel Radcliffe has answered some of the questions posted in the Dialogue Centre of the Official HP Site. (Thanks to everyone who sent us the link.)

The team over at TheFacer seems to have seen a rough cut of CoS – and a bit of praise is coming from that direction. That does it for me today – I’m off to get ready for this evening’s Q&A session about Nimbus – 2003, next July’s International Harry Potter symposium in Orlando, Florida!

Thanks to law student Tabitha, we now have a copy of the judge’s ruling in the recent Stouffer matter. You can find the html version and the text version on our Yahoogroup. Word to the wise – the text version is quicker to download but a bit harder to read. Discussion of the ruling can …read more!

I have to praise CNN, for this fabulous headline for their JKR coverage: Potter Author Awaits Pitter Patter. If that’s not alliterative genius…

More on the upcoming release of Book 5 from website Bloomberg.co.uk: Author J.K. Rowling has finished drafting the fifth Harry Potter novel and may give it to her publishers, Bloomsbury Plc and Scholastic Corp., in three to six months, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing Rowling. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix could …read more!

Through an auction on ebay we saw an amazing image of Fawkes, which we’ve uploaded to our new Yahoogroup (you don’t have to join to see the images!) – check it out!

More articles on the events of yesterday from the Times (who also had an interview) – they have another article here and one about her pregnancy here. Anyone interested in taking a look at the history of the Stouffer case can check out the FAQ that I wrote back in 2000 for Harry Potter for …read more!