We now have the video of the portion of the new BBC commercial for the Queen’s birthday party which features the Trio and Neville. You can see it here(Windows media). We also have an Ipod friendly version, here. Please, don’t forget to Right Click and Save As. The screencaps of this video clip are available …read more!

Aint It Cool News.com has a new promotional image for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix that was displayed at the recent New York Licensing Show. The poster shows Harry brandishing his lit wand, with Hogwarts castle in the background. Caution to parents, beware of language at this link.

Warner Brothers has announced that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will be released in IMAX the same day the film is released in general theaters next year on July 13. According to this press release, OotP is WB’s thirteenth film to be released in the IMAX format. “The Harry Potter series has …read more!

Three years ago, we had just fastened our hands around the behemoth Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the book where Harry gets mean, gets kissed and gets a destiny. And yesterday we got this first look at the kids during the Order of the Phoenix filming period, while we wait for the …read more!

We have our first look at Dan Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, and Matt Lewis as they appear in character for a specially filmed scene for the upcoming birthday party for the Queen this weekend. You can see a still photo here in our galleries, taken from a new BBC commercial for the party, which …read more!

Bloomsbury, publishers of the U.K. Harry Potter books, has launched a search for the literary villains readers most love to hate. As part of a campaign to promote Mark Walden’s novel, H.I.V.E. (“Higher Institute of Villanous Education”), Bloomsbury has created a website where readers can vote for their favorite literary villain. You-Know-Who is, of course, …read more!

Actress Fiona Shaw (Aunt Petunia) will be appearing on the London stage for a limited run in “Woman and Scarecrow,” by Irish playwright Marina Carr. Whatsonstage.com gives this description of the play: A Woman – gaunt and ill, haggard after giving birth eight times – faces death. What was life? What was love? What else …read more!

PotterCast 44, “The Internet is for PotterCast” (points if you get the reference first…) is now up! Remember to hit “Update” on your iTunes! In this show: -This week’s special guest: Tom Morris, author of “If Harry Potter Ran General Electric.” Sue interviews Dr. Morris as our third “Lumos Limelight” spot. -In Canon Conundrums: Is …read more!

Playbill reports that the multiple-Tony-winning play “The History Boys” has extended its run on Broadway for another month, until October 1. In addition, Tony award winner Richard Griffiths (Uncle Vernon) will be absent from the cast from July 18-23 “to honor a film commitment.” Frances de la Tour (Madame Maxime), who also won a Tony …read more!

Some of our sister sites on the Floo Network – The Harry Potter Lexicon, Quick Quotes and The Cauldron Shop – are having some server burps and giggles this week, and have been unable to update; please be patient and it will all be fixed shortly. Thanks much!