As we’ve announced previously, the fandom’s various rock stars have been putting out an awesome charity effort, the EP of the Month Club, in which you pay $50 for a year’s worth (12 CDs) of exclusive music and the proceeds go to First Book. Meanwhile, we in the Floo Network have been running “Last Books, …read more!

Previously we told you actor Dan Radcliffe would be appearing on the Friday Night with Jonathan Ross program. This aired last night on the BBC, and we now have video of this new interview for you (along with an iPod friendly version as well) here in our galleries. In this interview, Dan mentions how much …read more!

Cards Inc. has posted online images of their new Draco Malfoy, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger action figures due this summer before the release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The Ron figure has a wand accessory along with his Jack Russell Terrier Patronus and the Hermione Granger figure has her Otter …read more!

Warner Bros. has let us know that all three of the main Harry Potter actors – Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint – are confirmed for the last two Harry Potter films, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The announcement puts to rest recent speculation that Emma …read more!

Our favorite author’s only son turns four today! Please join us in wishing a happy birthday to David Rowling-Murray! We hope you get lots of cake, eat too much ice cream, and have enough fun to make Dudley green. And David, all we ask in return is that you toddle up to your mother, put …read more!

Now that the title and release date for the last Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has been announced, much speculation has begun on what could happen next for the beloved series that many do not want to see come to an end. For example, one comic book site has a new …read more!

The Lancaster newspaper reports that young vandals caused more than £50,000 worth of damage to the Hogwarts Express train carriages in the railway depot where they are stored. The police in the town of Carnforth say that the vandals, thought to be as young as ten, smashed the train’s windows with its own emergency hammers. …read more!

Severus Snape. The mention of his very name immediately gets attention and never fails to conjure up a strong reaction among Harry Potter fans, especially given the events in Half-Blood Prince. The Baltimore Sun has a new article online featuring the nefarious Potionsmaster and how this character has become such a popular and widely discussed …read more!

Scores of readers let us know actor Dan Radcliffe is to appear on the Friday Night with Jonathan Ross show which airs March 23 starting at 10:40 pm, and is broadcast in the UK on BBC One. The information on the program says that: “The new season kicks off with Daniel Radcliffe making a return …read more!

It’s a Marauders birthday party of sorts here in the Cauldron, for today actor Gary Oldman (Sirius Black) is celebrating his 49th birthday! Cheers to you Gary! Also in the midst of yesterday’s news we missed that actor David Thewlis (Remus Lupin) celebrated his 44th birthday. Happy belated birthday David!