Harry Potter has finally met

Harry Potter has finally met his match, not in the form of the evil Lord Voldemort but in the less formidable shape of the sort of minor European royal beloved of Hello! magazine. A Harry Potter book has held the top spot in the [UK] children's bestselling paperback list for two and a half years. But now J K Rowling'sContinued...

What a day for news

What a day for news - I'd just like to review:

Hermione's birthday.
The Stouffer thing is over.
MASSIVE news on book five.
JKR preggers.

Very hearty congratulations - and if this means book six (! I know, I just mentioned book SIX) is going to take a long time to put out, then it's worth it. There's another RowlingContinued...

It looks like congratulations are

It looks like congratulations are in order! Thank you to everyone who sent us this article on JK Rowling's pregnancy!

Oh dear, did we really

Oh dear, did we really forget? It's because of all the excitement over the JKR interview - surely she'd understand. Happy Birthday, Hermione.

Steve of The Harry

Steve of The Harry Potter Lexicon tells us that the Lexicon has already "noted a few facts [from the JKR interview] and added them."

I'm just reposting more info

I'm just reposting more info from the BBC article, which you should go to right now (this is the transcript link) , because Lizo has gotten this miraculous and wonderful bit of info out of our beloved writer: "Yes, we are looking at Goblet of Fire length."

Yes, I am doing a happy dance.

She also confirmedContinued...

JK Rowling has spoken exclusively

JK Rowling has spoken exclusively to CBBC Newsround and has revealed that the new Potter book, the Order of the Phoenix, isn't as far away as people think. She stated in the interview:

"There's a lot of book done - that's all I want to say because if I give a date and then I pass it everyone willContinued...

Tonight on Newsround on the

Tonight on Newsround on the BBC, Lizo Mzimba is going to present his interview with JK Rowling - the only one she's giving today! - about the Stouffer case (see below) and how Book V is going. You can read the preview here.

An article from website Law.com

An article from website Law.com goes into more detail regarding today's ruling on the Nancy Stouffer case.

May just sent us a

May just sent us a link to an article where Chris Columbus discusses the lateness of book five. Perhaps even he doesn't know how it's going...

A smidge more on the

A smidge more on the Stouffer matter from the Associated Press: Schwartz also questioned whether she created the "Larry Potter" character before Rowling's series debuted. A title page and other materials supposedly dating back to the 1980s used technology not in existence at the time, he ruled.

In addition, SchwartzContinued...

More on the recent court

More on the recent court ruling against Nancy Stouffer from Bloomberg.co.uk:

In his 36-page opinion, [U.S. District Judge Allen G. Schwartz] also ordered Stouffer to stop "making false representations to third parties indicating that she owns all rights in the 'Muggle' and 'Muggles' trademarks and copyrights,"Continued...

I just thought I'd add

I just thought I'd add a very personal zip-ah-dee-doo-dah and congratulations on behalf of all of us here at The Leaky Cauldron regarding the Nancy Stouffer ruling. It's about time this was settled and done with, and we're glad to see it go down the right way.

It has been decided Thanks

It has been decided
Thanks to Chimene, we've learned that Yahoo posted an article about the resolution of the Nancy Stouffer vs JK Rowling (and Scholastic, and WB) case here.

We're going to try and hunt down the court's ruling so I can see exactly what trademark and copyright cases the court cited (if anyoneContinued...

St. Louis Today reports that

St. Louis Today reports that "the most popular fictional boy-wizard ever created was supposed to have swamped bookstores this summer with volume 5 in the series, tentatively titled Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Or was it? It's unclear whether a firm release date had been set, or whether it keepsContinued...