Amazon.com Inc.’s German unit has been ordered by a local court to stop advertising that it will sell the latest Harry Potter book at a discount because it harms competition. The ruling of the Hamburg court followed a complaint by German book publisher Carlsen Verlag Gmbh, which owns the German rights to the English-language version …read more!

The BBC News reports that Kenneth Branagh has won the London Film Critics’ Circle best British supporting actor award for his role in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. (Read more at the link).

Comic Relief Day is just around the corner and in conjunction with the launch, and the report (see below) about the French & Saunders parody of the Harry Potter films, JKR appeared at the launch with a red streak in her hair and a bright red nose. Gabrielle let us know that a bit of …read more!

Rex Features has posted additional pictures of Daniel Radcliffe on the PoA set. (Thank you to Jennifer for the link.)

WireImage has more pictures of Dan on the set of PoA, presumably just after he’s fled Privet Drive. Thanks to Mike of www.ultimatekc.com for the links!

PA News reports that an auction of first editions of the HP books raised £7,000 for chariyy tody. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire fetched a total of £7,340 with half the proceeds in aid of ActionAid and the BBC’s …read more!

From The Sun comes a “sneak preview [of] the giant purple Knight Bus”! (Thanks to iHP for the link.) I should probably also mention that there is a huge spoiler for a key PoA plot point in the article …

It appears that filming on the third film may have already begun, if these images from WireImage are any indication. (Thanks to Mike for the link.) In addition, Coming Soon reports on an article from the L.A. Times which states that director Alfonso Cuarón was unavailable for comment regarding his “Original Screenplay” nomination for Y …read more!

Scroll to the bottom of this FoxNews article and you’ll see that Scholastic is reporting that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will be 896 pages long. That’s 164 more than GoF (thanks Flavia for pointing out that the press release erroneously states that the hardcover GoF is 752 pages, when it is …read more!

We’ve heard from Mary GrandPre’s camp that she’s been signed to do the cover spread and the individual chapter openers for Order of the Phoenix. We at TLC are looking forward to seeing what amazing representations of Harry’s world she creates this go-round.