Sigh – you HP types have to stop having birthdays on weekends. 🙂 Happy belated birthday to Sean Biggerstaff, who turned 20 on Saturday, March 15, and whose mug we’ll be seeing for some time, we’re all sure.

Hey, just to clear something up – we were told by Scholastic some time ago that regardless of where you live, the book will be sold to you at midnight in your time zone. We haven’t repeated the question in a while, but as Scholastic is America, we’re concerned with those time zones that hit …read more!

BBC News reports on the charity auction of a signed sopy of Order of the Phoenix. The auction, which can be viewed here, currently stands at GBP 400.00 (approx. US $633.36).

French & Saunders’ official website now has images from their Harry Potter spoof from Comic Relief Night last night. The show starred Dawn French as Harry, Jennifer Saunders as Ron, Miranda Richardson as Hermione, Jeremy Irons as Snape and Nigel Planner as Dumbledore, wearing Richard Harris’ old wig. It was directed by Adrien Edmonson. You …read more!

NJ.com reports on the school fair sales of OotP and booksellers’ unsavory reactions. TLC would like to point out that these book fairs are not offering the book early, only allowing those who purchase a copy to pick one up at 8am on June 21 – eight hours after most bookstores are offering it. Scholastic …read more!

Thakns Caitlin, for the heads up – scroll to the bottom of this Yahoo article for four interview clips and four deleted scenes from the CoS DVD!

While Counting Down recently reported that HP3 is due out on June 4, 2004, that date is completely unofficial. As far as we’ve been told, November 2004 hasn’t exactly been ruled out yet – it’s more likely to release in the summer, but “summer” is the closest thing we’ll get to a release date for …read more!

Godric’s Hollow has scored some pics from what look to be two of the 19 deleted scenes on the CoS DVD: the Borgin and Burkes scene, and the scene in which Gilderoy Lockhart hands out a very autobiographical test. Go there to check them out, and thanks so much to Jaime for the heads up!

CBBC Newsround reports on legal action being taken by JK Rowling’s lawyers to block publication of 7,000 Dutch versions of Tanya Grotter and Her Magical Double Bass by Russian author Dmitry Yemetsin. The books are set to be published in April.

And that means it’s just a few hours until the parody of the HP films, Harry Potter and the Secret Chamberpots of Azerbajan, airs. And don’t forget, you can still enter to win a Ford Anglia that doesn’t actually fly, but which has a boot (trunk to most Americans) filled with a tonne of HP …read more!