Scholastic has asked their final question on their site.

What are the Deathly Hallows?

• We’ll find out right away
• We’ll find out in the middle
• We’ll find out at the end

Also, download the 7 bookmarks HERE!

Preorders for Deathly Hallows have set a record according to Amazon.com.

With nearly three weeks remaining before the July 21 release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that enthusiastic Muggles throughout the country have pre-ordered more than 1 million copies of the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series from Amazon.com, surpassing the previous pre-order record held by the sixth book in the epic series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Worldwide, the company has taken nearly 1.6 million pre-orders for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, eclipsing the previous worldwide record of 1.5 million.

Amazon.com today also announced the deadline for Release-Date Delivery of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in the U.S. For all orders placed by Tuesday, July 17, 2007, at 12:00 p.m. EDT using standard shipping or better (including Amazon Prime), Amazon.com will guarantee delivery of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on its release date of Saturday, July 21, to all addresses within the lower 48 states, or the cost of the book will be refunded.

Read more HERE!

Well it has begun, it is Harry Potter month! This month we get to look forward to:

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix[movie]
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows[book]

I also wanted to remind everyone that this is a SPOILER FREE site! I will be doing my best to keep spoilers out of the site starting with comments, the forums (if people start to use them. Ha ha) and what I post as news. I will never post spoilers on the site.

Postal workers at Royal Mail  are threatening a series of walkouts in a dispute over pay, and this may interfere with the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.  So Royal Mail chiefs are using this in negotiations with postal union leaders to ask them not to disrupt deliveries of the book.

Royal Mail human resources director Kevin Green has sent a letter to the Union that says; “J.K. Rowling’s book, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, is due to be released on Friday, July 20, for delivery on July 21, and we will be providing a next-day delivery service for many major book retailers. I am sure the CWU will not want to be the cause for the final book not getting to its readers. I would urge you to ensure that there is no strike action in the week of the launch.”

Read the whole article HERE.

CTV.ca has an article out where they discuss the Harry Potter phenomenon.

Potter the phenomenon doesn’t compare for suspense, but like the wizard’s tale, it is unique and extraordinary and well placed in tradition. Like “Star Wars” and “Star Trek,” it is the story of how a work of popular art becomes a world of its own — imitated, merchandised and analyzed, immortalized not by the marketers, but by the fans.

“Around 2000, message boards, mailing lists, blogs were starting to form into the community hubs we have now. So the fans, who were desperately awaiting word on the fifth book … obsessed together on the Internet, writing their own fan fiction, having huge discussions picking every last piece of the canon apart and finding whatever way possible to make the wait tolerable,” says Anelli, who is writing a history of Potter, due out in 2008.

“I think we’ll always have Harry Potter conventions-conferences, and the appeal won’t end once it’s off the `new releases’ shelf,” Anelli says. “The mania will never be this intense again but this series will have life in the real world for a very long time.”

I am proud to say I have been a part of the phenomenon since the first book came out here in the US and I will stay a loyal fan for the rest of my life. How about you guys?

Read the whole thing HERE.

JK Rowling has updated her site and named Godric Gryffindor wizard of the month for July!

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.