HP Fan Trips guests will receive an invitation to a private entrance into Waterstone’s to begin the communal countdown early and enjoy a gorgeous view of Edinburgh Castle and the festivities of the Muggles below. Upon receiving the book, guests on four and five star packages will have the option of retiring to specially reserved fan reading rooms at their hotels, complete with free refreshments throughout the night.

This private party is only available for guests on the Edinburgh HP Fan Trips Book Release tours. A choice of three or four night stays in either Edinburgh or London is offered.

Read more HERE!

Some new Order of the Phoenix scans are now online thanks to Harry Potter Fan Zone for the news and scans.

See them HERE in the gallery.

I have won Site of the Month on Ron and Hermione Source for June/July! Which oddly is my site of the month for June. So yay!

Thanks!!! 🙂

Well, I knew this day would come. I had to get a “real job” in the words of my mother. I usually just babysit every so often. But she said I should get a real job as well. I will be doing that and babysitting now so I can make lots of money for school, ha ha.

So now I will be working at a daycare from 1:30-5:30, Monday-Friday until August 2nd.  If news comes out during that time I will update everything when I get back.

MTV Movie News has an article out about how JK Rowling approved the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Video Game.

At this point, Rowling has some confidence in the developers. But they can’t get away with everything. “She has written documents for us, explaining how certain things work, why you shouldn’t do certain things that we’re not supposed to say because they’re secret,” Roberts said.

And she has put her foot down when need be. Roberts and the team came up with a mission in the game that would have Harry’s classmate Neville Longbottom sabotaging a clock tower to get back at Hogwarts professor Dolores Umbridge. “We got this feedback from her saying, ‘I really like the mission, but I don’t think Neville would do that. I think it would be Dean Thomas. He’s much more likely to do it.’ ” They switched the mission to Dean.

Read the whole article HERE.

Film Journal has done an interview with Harry Potter director David Yates. In the interview he talks about Order of the Phoenix and Half Blood Prince.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was “filmed in seven or eight months–yeah, it was a juggernaut!–but, in total, it has taken about two and a half years from the day I initially sat down with Michael Goldenberg in L.A. to look at the first draft of the script. There were numerous revisions and storyboarding and prepping before The Delivery.”

Regardless of that outcome, Yates is keeping the lad alive via flick six, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. “I’ve been getting the next one ready for three months now while I’m finishing up Phoenix. I’m doing a Chris Columbus. He did the first two films back-to-back, and he had this crazy schedule where he was dubbing One while he was prepping Two. I’ve been doing the same with Five and Six. We start shooting in September.”

Read the whole article HERE.