We’ve received word from an NBC rep who assured us that the Rowling-Couric interview is tentatively scheduled Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday the week of July 11, though that may easily change. The interview is taking place today in Scotland and seems to be planned to air to go with a whole Harry Potter themed week …read more!

TLC was able to obtain a copy of the injunction granted to J.K. Rowling regarding disclosure of the contents of book six (read the intial story here); you can read the PDF here (but make sure you have Adobe Reader so you can open the document). The order is broader than the original newspaper articles …read more!

Barry Cunningham, publisher and managing director of Chicken House books, the founding publisher of Bloomsbury, and the man who finally took on Potter, talks to Fortune in the June 27 magazine for their article on decision-making: “When we started Bloomsbury Children’s Books in 1995, publishing was full of ‘issue books’ describing serious and important subjects …read more!

WB has confirmed to us the reports today that Daniel Radcliffe will star in December Boys, an independent film about four orphans who were born in the same month, growing up in 1960s Australia. The film is based on a novel by Michael Noonan. He will film right after GoF is released in November, before …read more!

Actor Gary Oldman is quoted briefly speaking about his role as Sirius Black in an interview posted on IGN. Mr.Oldman says that his part in the Goblet of Fire film is very small, noting: I’ll disappoint you because I’m just a tiny, tiny little part in the next one. I’m just embers in the fire. …read more!

The Sun announced yesterday that its cub reporter contest winner, Sian Brennan, gave her trip to meet with Jo to her sick twin sister, Zoe. Sian invented and drew the “groggle,” a creature who saves Harry’s life, and in a phone poll Sun readers chose him as their favorite. The twins are from Newtownards, Northern …read more!

On June 1, Katie Couric announced on “Today” that she’d be interviewing Jo Rowling in two weeks’ time and invited fans to submit questions. However, she never said the interview would air in two weeks’ time. An air date has never been announced. In fact, on June 8, just six days ago, Couric said again …read more!

Our HBP contests page has been updated with a still-open cub reporter contest from Australia and one from India, as well as a contest from the Idaho Statesman for kids to participate in a “TriWizard Tournament.”

Enter a HP-related caption contest at Sev.com.au. Thanks Karen!

Thank you to those who sent us what’s being reported today as the announcement that the audio of Scholastic’s version of HBP will be out on July 16; however, this is old news; it was actually announced in April. You can still preorder audio from the US and UK at the Cauldron Shop. The audio …read more!