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Newsround got the official word from a Rowling spokersperon; also, JKR is expected to update soon.

We’re hitting it a little late, but we want to wish a happy 15th birthday to Matthew Lewis, a.k.a. Neville Longbottom, one of the best sports we at TLC ever met. (For more, see the NYC premiere video.)

I was fooling around with the links from the old “hack” of JKR’s site and the links people have been sending us to the door without the “Do Not Disturb Sign” – and came up with this. Go here (if nothing happens, right-click and press “Play”). The book with the placeholder text shows up. Note …read more!

We were going to wait for confirm/deny before posting this, but as these things do, it’s spreading around the net at the speed of, well, of Harry Potter fans, and we’d rather keep you informed. (We also need to stem the flood of emails…) The rumor goes thus: a fan was fiddling with JKR’s site …read more!

Here are some pics of our new GoF cast members, thanks to reader Ashely: David Tennant as Barty Crouch Jr. Jeff Rawle as Amos Diggory Pedja Bjelac as Karkaroff Roger Lloyd-Pack as Barty Crouch

Warner Brothers has just released a list of confirmed new cast members for the Goblet of Fire film. Joining the cast are: Roger Lloyd- Pack as Barty Crouch Pedja Bjelac as Karkaroff Jeff Rawle as Amos Diggory David Tennant as Barty Crouch Jr. Confirmed are those that we told you previously: Clemence Poesy as Fleur …read more!

In an article in The Scotsman, Bloomsbury, the U.K. publishers of the Harry Potter series, says the success of the third film has helped book sales. Bloomsbury, which announced a 38% rise in profits in March, said schoolboy wizard Harry Potter continued to be hugely popular with readers, boosted by the “unprecedented success” of the …read more!

The Clinton-Potter comparisons continue in the media, with today’s cartoon on Slate.com and MSN’s MSNBC’s comparison of the two tales: As he tells it, the rite-of-passage fable is similar: A gifted foundling, possessed of magical but unruly powers, is pursued by an evil force he cannot escape because it is within him, and teams up …read more!

Many readers have written in to tell us that in a recent Starlog article, the scans of which are posted on DanRadcliffe.com, Dan Radcliffe says the person playing Fleur is Pam Espose, not Clemence Poesy as previously reported. Here are at least two reasons not to believe it (or at least believe it’s a misquote): …read more!