UPDATE to the persisting rumor that Elizabeth Hurley has been offered a role in OotP: Yet ANOTHER check-in with WB has yielded the same result. “She is not being offered a role. Don’t know where this has come from.“ Close the book on this one!

Today Julie Walters (Molly Weasley) is celebrating her 55th birthday. Cheers Julie!

The story has made the rounds and now has gone all the way to the Associated Press, that Elizabeth Hurley has been offered a role in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. As far as we know, nothing has changed from last time, i.e: there is no truth here whatsoever. WB debunked this …read more!

Scholastic. com has updated their Harry Potter section with a new unique poster for the Half-Blood Prince book. It features a montage of all the five previous book covers by Mary GrandPre, and has a picture of Dobby in the section with the title and release date for book 6. You can click here to …read more!

Our friends at RowM have posted their galleries and first articles on the 2005 HP toy lines from LEGO and Mattel. The photos are more detailed than any that’ve been released thus far, and the Mattel article includes a full listing of their products. Mattel’s showroom also used a bunch of previously unreleased GoF images, …read more!

TLC wishes Alan Rickman a very happy 59th birthday today!

There’s word going around that March 18 is the final day of filming on Goblet of Fire; this is only true of the first unit, where the principal stuff generally happens. There is filming at least into March 18 on the second unit (usually reaction shots and the like).

Actor Richard Griffiths (Uncle Vernon Dursley) has won the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award as Best Actor for his performance as Hector in “The History Boys.” He was nominated for this prestigious acting award for his work in the theatre this year along with fellow Potter actor Sir Michael Gambon (Albus Dumbledore). This is the third …read more!

HP4U.CO.UK let us know about a new Goblet of Fire filming report just posted. This article says that filming is taking place today in Black Park, although it is very difficult to get near the set. Of the scenes being filmed, the report says Filming right now (picture Hagrid asking Harry to meet him in …read more!

In the final run up to next weekend’s Oscar awards, there are several bits of news about the score for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which was nominated for an Academy Award. The score by John Williams was included in an article earlier this week from Variety that had a quote from the …read more!