JK Rowling has added a new wizard of the month to her web site:

"Godric Gryffindor

Medieval (precise dates unknown)
One of the four famous Founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Godric Gryffindor was the most accomplished dueller of his time, an enlightened fighter against Muggle-discrimination and the first owner of the celebrated Sorting Hat."

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Just a reminder that the play, Equus starring Dan Radcliffe who plays Harry Potter in the films, ends its run in the Gielgud Theatre London, this coming Saturday the 9th of June. So, if you want to go see the play, you have only have a few days left.

More details and booking info can be found here.

JK Rowling has added a new wizard of the month to her web site:

"Salazar Slytherin [Medieval (precise dates unknown)]

One of the four celebrated Founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and
Wizardry, Salazar Slytherin was one of the first recorded Parselmouths,
an accomplished Legilimens, and a notorious champion of pureblood supremacy."

Warner Bros. has confirmed that they are partnering with Universal Orlando Resort to create the first "fully immersive" Harry Potter theme park. The park has been referred to a "theme park within a theme park" and is slated to open in early 2010.

(We hope to have to artwork images for you soon).

Click the "read more" link for the official release.

Scottish news paper The Scotsman reports that a representative from Warner Bros. has scouted several locations in Scotland for filming of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

Warner Bros, which is preparing to shoot Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, has sent an executive to the cliffs and caves around Cape Wrath, and also to a sea cave close to the Whaligoe Steps near Wick, and has been in talks over filming in the north.

The producers are interested in using the caves and cliffs as part of the dramatic climax of the new film - the sixth in the series - in which the heroes wind their way along a sea-lashed coastline in search of the soul of the evil Lord Voldemort.

Sue Quinn, a London-based locations manager with Warner Bros, travelled to Scotland last month, taking a boat trip from Lochinver around Cape Wrath towards Durness, and then heading to Wick to check out the shore and caves at Whaligoe, near Lybster.

• Smoo Cave, near Durness, which is 200ft long, 130ft wide, and 50ft tall at its entrance;


• Clo Mor, near Cape Wrath, which at 921ft, are the highest cliffs on the UK mainland;


• The arches under Cape Wrath, which contain a string of long caves;


• Stac Clo Kearvaig, a tower of rock that rises 130ft above the waves near Cape Wrath;


• The cave at the Whaligoe Steps, which lies in a bay enclosed by two large sea cliffs.

The British Board of Film Classification has published the running time for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on its web site as being 138 minutes and 4 seconds (2 hours, 18 minutes and 4 seconds).

Source: HPANA, Harry Potter Freakz and TLC

The folks over at perhaps the largest Harry Potter fanfiction archive, Fiction Alley, get the first view of the the IMAX trailer for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

The trailer can be viewed here (this is a low res Quicktime version - higher versions will be available in June).

Harry Potter's German Publisher has announced they will be releasing the German language of Harry Potter and the Deathly hallows on the 27th of October 2007.

The Swedish language version (Harry Potter och Dödsrelikerna) will be released on the 21st of November 2007.

Thanks to HPANA.

The UK publisher for Harry Potter, Bloomsbury has updated their web site with loads of goodies, including screen savers, and launched a new site Swat up on Potter.

Thanks to MuggleNet.