At today’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter event in Orlando, Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy), who was on hand to help with the announcements, confirmed the attraction will be opening in Spring 2010 – and more, as this post gets updated. UPDATE: Videos are now available for download here in our galleries:Entire Special Webcast with Tom …read more!

Harry Potter actors Dan Radcliffe (Harry Potter) and Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) are among the actors included in the 2010 edition of the Guinness World Records Book. The latest edition of the venerable reference guide includes records for the two actors in categories relating to the continued box office success of the Harry Potter films. …read more!

The BBC is reporting today that money spent in making of the upcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will help benefit a children’s Hospice in the UK. As readers will recall, last week location filming for the Seven Potters scene took place in Liverpool, England at a place called Queensway Tunnel. As standard in …read more!

Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen several varying reports on release dates for the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DVD. Home Media Magazine is reporting this confusion and uncertainty is because WB is deliberately withholding the formal release date. The article says that WB apparently feels by withholding the exact date and …read more!

Attention Dumbledore’s Army! The Harry Potter Alliance will be holding another live meeting tonight via Ustream starting very shortly at 6:00pm (Eastern). In the meeting, fans will hear more about the new Magical Acts of Kindness campaign, as well as more on their approach to raising awareness in a manner that incorporates the messages of …read more!

The latest episode of PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast, is here for you today with its 204th edition of Potter fun, news, discussion, and more. This week, Sue gives us the latest in the news including a Scream Award nomination for Miss Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood), Chamber of Secrets Extended Edition DVDs, artwork by J. …read more!

Last week we heard from author Ian Rankin who gave an update of sorts regarding the long awaited Scottish book or Harry Potter encyclopedia from J.K. Rowling. As noted before, Mr. Rankin said the last time he saw his neighbor and friend, Jo was “was working on her Harry Potter encyclopedia” and “drawing family trees …read more!

As a quick follow below to all the activity in developing the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, there is word today regarding special type light fixtures to be used at the new theme park. The County Times reports that The Limehouse Lamp Company in England is making “100 mainly oil lamp-style replica” lights for “a …read more!

Thanks as always to BrianDorf who emailed us with another photo and video update of the ever ongoing construction for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park in Orlando, Florida. Of interest are close up photos of off-site construction, here, here and here of the towers, walls and spires that will be placed on …read more!

Actor Jamie Campbell Bower has given a new interview where he discusses his character of the young Gellert Grindelwald in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In this article with MTV, Jamie says that the character appears in part one, and is indeed a “flashback character.” He speaks of the young wizard who …read more!