Gloucester Cathedral has been vandalized… Vandals have caused considerable damage to a cathedral which featured in the Harry Potter Films. The culprits smashed 26 Victorian stained glass windows in a cathedral used as a setting for Hogwarts School. Three youths were seen running away from the 900-year-old Gloucester cathedral at about the time the damage …read more!

Hey guys, just a quick update on the whole Sothebys, Book-5-card thing. We’re talking to lawyers, but it looks like it could happen. Soon. TLC would incoporate as a non-profit charity corporation, and that can be done in a day (Monday, one hopes). If that happens, the rest is cake, and we could be looking …read more!

We just got this in – apparently, there’s going to be a “Free Dobby” rally on Fountain Square in Downtown Cincinnati on November 26 (Tuesday) – our reports say it will take place behind the glass wall of the WKRC-TV morning news show, and ralliers are planning on coming out with signs insisting on the …read more!

Reader Tia sent us this link to a CBBC Newsround article where Rupert Grint discusses the detention he received after the Chamber of Secrets premiere.

An article from Christianity Today reports that religious press critics widely disagreed about the film. Some are of the opinion that the “moral center of [the] series is dead-on.” while others believe that it “glorifies the occult in a glamorous way.” (Thanks to The Wizard World for the link.)

First of all – THANK YOU all for the gazillion emails of support you’ve sent saying you’d donate to the collect-for-Book-Aid-and-get-that-Book-5-info-published fund (that’s a working title). If those who emailed represent more out there who’ll donate – we’re in very good shape. Second, we are still working some things out. We need some info – …read more!

RonSoup at The Burrow has posted sections of the December MAD Magazine, which parodies CoS. Warning – if you click on the thumbnails on that page, the images are all pretty large. Funny too, but large.

From website Canada.com comes this article on Kenneth Branagh, where he discusses, among other things, JK Rowling’s response to his portrayal of Gilderoy Lockhart: “She said, ‘You were absolutely wonderful; you were absolutely loathsome.’”

We all want to know what’s on that blasted card that Sotheby’s is auctioning off, right? Sadly, none of us are rich – but we are enthusiastic, and we are large in number. And that gives us a tremendous advantage. Editors B.K. DeLong, Heidi Tandy and myself have been in a mass transit of emails …read more!

The Deseret News reports that more people saw the “Harry Potter” sequel at the Megaplex 17 in Jordan Commons than at any other theater in the country. (Thank you to Izzers for the link.)