The Lexicon is hard at work this week with updates including The Black Family Tree, descriptions of Malfoy Mansion, 12 Grimmauld Place, & St. Mungos. The Strictly British slang glossary and Fantastical Facts from Book V has also been updated while they work to update the rest of The Lexicon. Obviously full of spoilers. Quick …read more!

Check out BBC Newsround’s coverage of the Royal Albert Hall event. In related news, I’ll soon be bringing you a first-hand report. 🙂 Yes, I’m in a net cafe in London – Lizo is here and says hello. It was last minute, sorry for not saying anything! There will soon be pictures and a scan …read more!

According to CNet’s Paul Festa, a pirated version o OotP is available online in Microsoft eBook format for all to download.

Quick Quotes has been updated with a June 30th interview with Rowling from Newsweek. I thought this was interesting: There are no fancy cars in the drive, unless you count her husband’s Mini Cooper (oddest piece of Rowling trivia: she doesn’t know how to drive).

Harry makes appearances in Penny Arcade and Ozzie and Millie this week.

As people from all over the world flock to England or prep their PCs to watch Rowling at her Royal Albert Hall event tomorrow, The Independent raises some interesting concerns regarding youth participation in Web chats.

The Telegraph has a trio of reviews from a 29.5 yr old, a 15 year old and a 10 year old – all of which are quite interesting.

Slate’s Book Club has a week-long discussion of Book V this week. Here is todays.

The Chronicle’s David Kipen says Book V is nothing more than “900 pages” of “stale familiarity”.

Reviewer Michael Atkinson has an interesting take on Book V that this editor can only describe as….overly bombastic.