Newsday presents a general report on HP fanfic. Quotage: Move over, J.K. Rowling. Frustrated with waiting for the author to supply the answers – presumably in her fifth book, “The Order of the Phoenix,” due to hit bookstores June 21 – fans have taken matters into their own hands. They’ve logged on by the tens …read more!

A few people have emailed us to let us know that Waterstones has announced the hours for all their locations in Ireland, Northern Ireland, the UK, Scotland and Europe. We’re holding off listing these in MUARI individually until we have information about specific events. So feel free to let us know if you contact your …read more!

You’ll notice that with the creation of our new Floo Network comes a new set of domains. First, the Harry Potter Lexicon has acquired a new domain name – http://www.hp-lexicon.org. You can now find Quick Quotes at http://www.quick-quote-quill.org and the Hogwarts Galleries at http://www.hogwarts-gallery.org. Be sure to change your links and bookmarks!

As many may remember, when Jim Dale read Goblet of Fire, he had claimed to have done 125 different voices. Well, in the recent Wall Street Journal article he says he’s done 134. In fact, his Web site has recently been updated to mention the same as well. So what? Well if you think about …read more!

Sotheby’s has announced intentions to auction more first-edition Potters. The details as they provide them are: 455 Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Bloomsbury, 1997 8vo, FIRST EDITION, original pictorial boards, erased ownership marks on front paste-down, head and foot of spine bumped, corners slightly chipped, publisher’s binding faults There are two raised …read more!

The Canadian run of HP5 is complete.

Thanks Christopher, for pointing us to this USA Today article, which discusses the Potter audience as it ages, and expectations for Phoenix among that population. Quotage: Erin Meyers, 18, of Tyler, Texas, is excited, but she won’t be wielding a wand on June 21. Having begun the series at 15, the incoming Emory University freshman …read more!

According to the BBC, Donald Parfitt managed to skirt a jail term and was sentenced today to 180 hours of community service and £55 of court costs.

Amazon.com put out a press release today with some interesting statistics. To-date more than 550,000 copies of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” have been ordered at www.amazon.com. At 2.8 pounds a piece, that’s more than 770 tons of Harry Potter magic – nearly 3.5 times the weight of the Statue of Liberty …read more!

Set your calendars and ready your Quick Quotes Quills – Jeremy Paxman from BBC’s Newsnight has already interviewed Rowling in a show set to air on June 19th. Rowling tells Paxman about Order of the Phoenix, gives him a taster from the new book, and provides an insight into the inspiration behind the novels. She …read more!