Variety Magazine reports on the CoS launch party and quotes Robbie Coltrane as saying that his favorite part of the DVD is the Forebidden Forrest tour – three strikes, and spiders overrun the car! The article also quotes Tom Felton as saying: Somebody told me I was going to die… If I do, I hope …read more!

Catch a glimpse of “deleted” scenes from the CoS DVD: “Double Trouble” (Polyjuice), “Lucius Liquidates” (Borgin and Burkes) and “Pop Quiz” (Lockhart) at AOL KEYWORD: Inside The DVD, or at this link. (Thanks ixchelmala!)

Newsround has picked up our story about the Scholastic catalog including a summary for OoTP. You can scroll down on this page and click on the link to read the content of the summary itself – the full text of the spoiler is not posted on this page. And Newsround, being the sensible people they …read more!

Empire Online has a bit about the new casting decisions for PoA. Columbus says: I think [Dawn French is] incredibly funny and her Harry Potter spoof on Comic Relief was pretty amazing. He also doesn’t say whether Ian Brown of the Stone Roses will be in the film or not.

On April Fool’s Day, we received an email from a woman named Rosalind who claimed she had a summary of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix that had appeared in Scholastic’s catalog for Summer/Fall 2003. I refused to believe it (because of the day), but she insisted, and finally sent me a copy …read more!

Newsround has a great report up with lots of tidbits about the third, fourth and fifth movies – check it out! Dawn French is in the new film British actress Julie Christie [click for pictures] will play Three Broomsticks barmaid Madam Rosmerta. And comedienne Dawn French [click for pictures], last seen in the Comic Relief …read more!

Amazon is offering the special edition of book five for $42 – and offers a pic, which shows us how thick it will be. Thanks Jim for the heads-up!

The Sun reports on the launch – errors include “Hermoine Granger” and calling the Anglia a “Hillman Imp.” One thing in the article that’s been confirmed from other sources (more to come on that soon) is that Heyman said they’re currently treating GoF as one movie, but are keeping the option of splitting it into …read more!

Newsround has more images and quotes here, including comments from Rupert Grint, Chris Rankin, Sean Biggerstaff (who talks about his nonappearance in PoA), Emma Watson, Tom Felton and the Phelps twins.

A reader who prefers to remain nameless has sent us SIX clips previewing the upcoming DVD, so here you go: J.K. Rowling and Steve Kloves, interviewed by Lizo Mzimba of the BBC, transcribed here: LM: Can you explain both how you work together to produce the final script? SK: From the beginning she gave me …read more!