The Orlando Sentinel has an article interviewing some college-age Potter fans. Nice to see people catching on that adults DO in fact enjoy the series.

We’re here. 3 long years later and we’re finally down to the last 7 days. It’s been a fun ride though quite somber, as J.K. Rowling has told us it’s the end of an era for Harry and just the beginning of deaths. One thing that is sorely lacking from the launch of Goblet of …read more!

On Sunday, June 15th it appears CBS’ 60 Minutes will be replaying their September 12, 1999 interview with Rowling. This interview is particularly interesting because it shows some of her own drawings for the various characters in the book as well as her filing system which consists of lots and lots of boxes of notebooks. …read more!

Yet another Scholastic Winner profiled in their local paper. Thomas Pardee’s essay stood apart from the rest because it injected a bit of humor – which was needed to offset some of the other more serious and emotional essays.

(SPOILER ALERT) An article in this morning’s LA Times (Free registration required) looks at all the miscommunication surrounding yesterday’s release of an audio clip for Order of the Phoenix. Fans first stumbled across the audio excerpt Wednesday through America Online and the Leaky Cauldron site, then began posting comments on the clip, Anelli said. The …read more!

The St. Petersburg Times profiled Scholastic Contest Winner David Dawson, who wrote a heartwarming – and wrenching – essay about wishing he had the power to cure a broken heart after the death of his mother.

The Chicago Tribune has a very interesting article about what other authors and writers think of the Harry Potter books from Mary Higgins Clark to David McCullough to Julia Alvarez to Louis Sachar. Fascinating.

Constant Vigilance. I dislike posting these links because I disagree with what they represent. But the reason I post WorldNetDaily’s rabble-rousing that Harry Potter is a method of recruiting for the occult. J.K. Rowling has said time and time again that her story has nothing to do with neo-Pagan theology. It is fiction and is …read more!

Scholastic Winner Louisa George was also briefly profiled by her local TV station, KIDK.

We have taken down the entire post that deals with the sneak peek as to erase the comments, which also infringed on JKR’s property. If you read the snippet, DO NOT post bits of it in our comments section – not only will it be deleted, your IP will be banned without warning. We apologize …read more!