DanRadcliffe.com posted two new images from the 2006 HP GoF film calendar: Harry and (dead) Cedric Harry in the Maze Thanks DR!

This week is Banned Books Week, an effort TLC supports in the name of Harry Potter fans, and all those who can’t be Harry Potter fans because the books aren’t allowed in their libraries. Each fall since 1982, the American Library Association (ALA) has started the school year by reminding Americans “not to take for …read more!

HP Fan Trips, the group that organized fan sojourns to England and Scotland, has announced a special Goblet of Fire Premiere Weekend Trip in New York City. Attendees will stay in Times Square hotel Friday and Saturday night, Nov. 11 and Nov. 12, a private party in the Jekyll and Hyde Club in NYC, a …read more!

A spokesperson for WB has assured us that previously reported rumors of Emma Watson in a movie called Airborn are “twaddle.” In other words, no!

Newsround reports that a fan in Moldova, upset that the book was not available in her area, borrowed Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and wrote out the entire text. She even wrote dialogue and narration in different colors, so it would be easier to read. That’s dedication! Thanks to Indigo!

HBP sold out instantly in Vietnam this Saturday morning, Thanh Nien News reports. The first run of 15,000 copies of the tale in Vietnamese disappeared so quickly that the Youth Publishing House said it would instantly print another 10,000 books. The Vietnamese edition is among the first translations of HBP; it sold for the equivalent …read more!

Rupert Grint, his father, his agent and his school have denied the rumor that anyone asking Rupert for an autograph will get detention. Read more about it here. Thanks to Grace of RGMS.org for letting us know.

Reader Julia sent us this scan of an interview with Katie Leung from the Austrian youth magazine “XPress,” with this very rough translation: “She Ensnares Harry” Not only in the film she’s making his wand glow: Katie Leung, 18, who has been picked of 3.000 applicants to play Harry’s girlfriend [which fans of the books …read more!

Mary GrandPre, the illustrator of the US editions of the Harry Potter novels, has given a new interview where she talks Book Seven and more. In an interview with the Bradenton Herald, the artist says she will miss Harry when the books are finished, noting “It will be kind of like getting a kid off …read more!

Jenna let us know that, thanks to Shocolate, DanRadcliffe.com now has some of the scans from the 2006 GoF calendar: September November May March June July February December August Cover Update: Veritaserum has one additional scan up now, here, showing Arthur Weasley, Amos Diggory and Ron (Portkey scene before QWC) Update #2: Sue pops into …read more!