YouTube along with Warner Brothers, have launched a potion-making contest for fans online. To enter, you will either create a video using 3D tools or standard filming. To enter you must be a resident of the United States and aged 13 or over. The contest closes on July 14th but you have until June 24th to upload your video. After that, voting begins to determine winners.

To read all the rules and view demo videos, click here!

Source: Mugglenet

TLC has recieved word that stores are starting to hear about the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DVD. The DVD is supposedly going to be released during the holiday season in December, 2009  “on 1-Disc, 2-Disc, and 3-Disc DVD/Blu-Ray combo versions.” The DVD may POSSIBLY contain several sneaks previews for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

REMEMBER this is only a rumour and not confirmed until WB informs us of the release date!

In the latest issue of Brazil’s Capricho Magazine, Emma Watson is featured on the cover and it includes an interview with her. I am not sure if it’s a new interview since my Spanish is very rusty. If anyone could translate it please send over a translation! Head over to Trio Network to see the scans! (I am now a co-web over there so YAY)

Thanks to Oclumencia!

The Half-Blood Prince official Facebook page has been updated with new posters featuring Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Dumbledore facing off against Snape, Draco, Bellatrix, and Fenrir Greyback.  See the two posters here in the gallery!

Thanks UHP!

There is a new interview on the LA Times with the Harry Potter visual effects supervisor, Tim Alexander!

So how many Inferi lie in the lake?
A couple million? Above water, you’d probably see about a hundred at a time. But when Harry gets dragged into the lake, there is a whole underwater environment…and it’s actually covered in bodies. It’s all just … bodies crawling on top of each other, and that’s how you get into the millions.

That sounds … disturbing. Certainly, more so than the previous “Potter” films.
It’s certainly much bolder and scarier than we imagined that they’d ever go in a “Potter” movie. Director David Yates was really cautious of not making this into a zombie movie, so we were constantly trying to figure out how not to make these dead people coming up look like zombies. A lot of it came down to their movement – they don’t move fast, but they don’t move really slow or groan and moan. We ended up going with a very realistic style. They move like anyone coming up out of water.

Today we now know that Matthew Lewis and Bonnie Wright will be joining Evanna Lynch at the Polish Half-Blood Prince premiere.  Evanna announced that she would be going earlier this week.  The premiere will be held on July 20th.  Bonnie and Matt will be in Poland on the 21st as well.

I will post more about the premiere when it is announced! Thanks SS!