If you remember, many months ago, I posted about the creation of a Harry Potter 20 Questions game! Well, now you can buy it,well later this week! See a picture HERE in the gallery.

Based on the original 20Q game that won over millions of players from around the world, 20Q Harry Potter asks fans to think of people, places, and things from the books and films. The goal? Try to stump the game’s remarkably clever and precise artificial intelligence with your knowledge of Harry’s wizarding world. The new 20Q knows everything Harry Potter, from his gadgets, brooms and spells, to the potions he studies.

Thanks SnitchSeeker!

Yesterday Helena Bonham Carter, who plays Bellatrix in the Harry Potter films gave birth to her second child! A baby girl! Now hers and Tim Burton’s four year old son, Billy, has a younger sister.

Congratulations Helena and Tim!!!!!!

MTV has a new interview out with Helena Bonham Carter where she talks about her new movie Sweeney Todd as well as Harry Potter.

MTV: Do you have compassion for Bellatrix?

Carter: For Bellatrix? Yeah. Anybody who tends to be a baddie or a psychotic, they tend to be damaged in a really fundamental way. There’s a vulnerability, a deep vulnerability, a wound.

MTV: So Sweeney is Mrs. Lovett’s Voldemort.

Carter: That’s true. And this [she pats her pregnant belly] is little Voldemort. Little Sweeney. [She giggles.]

Amazon.com has released the final plot summary for a story in The Tales of Beedle the Bard. This time it is for the story The Tale of the Three Brothers. Which if you read Deathly Hallows, have heard the whole story already. But you can read their summary HERE.

I have also added lots of pictures to that part of the GALLERY.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is one of 15 movies shortlisted for the Best Visual Effects Oscar.  7 will be chosen, 3 will go through to be nominated for the Academy Award which will be awarded during the Oscar show in February. The other movies are:

•  Beowulf
• The Bourne Ultimatum
• Evan Almighty
• The Golden Compass
• I Am Legend
• Live Free Or Die Hard
• National Treasure: Book Of Secrets
• Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End
• Ratatouille
• Spider-Man 3
• Sunshine
• 300
• Transformers
• The Water Horse

The Courant.com has a new interview with Alan Rickman where he talks about Sweeney Todd! We also learn that he starts filming Half-Blood Prince on January 6th!

“What’s interesting about this film is, who’s worst in it?” Rickman says. “It’s not a beauty pageant of nice people.”

Then there’s the flip side of giving people — especially young ones — what they want. His first on-set call for “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” is Jan. 6.

“It’s fun,” he says of the series, “although your eye line keeps shifting. Some years ago I was looking down at [Daniel] Radcliffe. … We’re kind of looking each other in the eye now.”