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In honor of Mother's Day, a new Wizard Challenge titled "Magnificent Mums" has been added to Scholastic's official website. In addition, several new games have been added to the publisher's website, including Potter Swap, Polyjuice Pairs, and Magical Matches. 

At the 9th annual Golden Trailer Awards in Los Angeles on Thursday, this Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix TV spot won the award for "Best Animation/Family TV Spot".  It was up against TV spots for Ratatouille, Horton Hears a Who, and The Golden Compass.

Eight new Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince promotional images have surfaced on packaging for Opal Sock Yarn's Fall '08 Harry Potter wool collection.  The images include new HBP character shots of Tonks, Harry, Ron, Hedwig, Dumbledore, and Draco.

J.K. Rowling is among 13 authors who have produced original "storycards" for a charity auction.  The invite-only auction will take place June 10 at Waterstone's Piccadilly store in the U.K., and proceeds will benefit English PEN and Dyslexia Action.

J.K Rowling has been included in a list of ten mothers who have "achieved greatness in their respective careers, while simultaneously maintaining their roles as exemplary mothers." She is the only non-American to receive a spot on the Hall of Fame, being described as an honourary "Global" inductee.

Casting Call Pro is listing several actors set to play minor characters in the sixth Harry Potter film. Dean Garnham will appear as a Slytherin student, Teresa Mahoney as "Sofie" (Boardroom-Opening Scene), Lord Johnpaul Castrianni as a Death Eater, and Daniel Barnett as a Slughorn Ball Graduate.

According to WhoWhatWear, Clémence Poésy (Fleur Delacour in the Harry Potter films) will not reprise her role in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. However, please take this rumour with a grain of salt as it has not yet been confirmed by Warner Bros.

In ASOS Magazine, Jessie Cave (Lavender Brown in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) talks about her first on-screen kiss with Rupert Grint, saying, "It was a bit embarrassing. Our first screen kiss was on my third day of shooting."  She continues, "It's been an amazing experience though."

Nominees for this year's EMA Home Entertainment Awards have been announced, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix leads the pack alongside Transformers with four nominations.  The awards ceremony will take place on June 24 in Las Vegas.

Back in 2004, J.K Rowling and husband Neil Murray took legal action against Express Newspapers after a photo of their then two year old son, David, was published in Sunday Express magazines. The case has now been resolved and there will not be any further publication of the photo.

The famous kiss between Dan Radcliffe and Katie Leung in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has been nominated for an MTV Movie Award in the Best Kiss category.  You can vote for the kiss here.  The 2008 MTV Movie Awards will be broadcast live on June 1 at 8 PM EST.

BBC News has released aerial footage of the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince set.  The footage includes shots of familiar sets such as Privet Drive and Hagrid's Hut, as well as several new sets specifically for the sixth film.  The footage is also available on CBBC's website.

Several Harvard students have expressed concern that J.K. Rowling's commencement address at the institution on June 5 will not be "impressive enough".  One student said, "Harry Potter – and JK Rowling – is just a flash in the pan. Writing bedtime stories is lame – just ask Tolkien and CS Lewis."

At the 2008 Bravo Supershow this past weekend, Dan Radcliffe and Emma Watson won Golden Bravo Otto awards in the male and female filmstar categories, respectively, for their work on Harry Potter.

Extensive new research by Renaissance Learning charts the top 20 books read by U.S. students in grades in 1-12, overall and by gender and geographic location.  Although the Harry Potter books are often found in the top 20, none of them ever comes in first as the book most often read by any grade.

Amazon has selected twenty semifinalists, ten in two age groups, for its 'Beedle the Bard Ballad Writing Contest'.  Through May 11, you can vote for your favorite entry in both age groups here.  The winners of each age group will then compete for a chance to spend time with The Tales of the Beedle the Bard.

At Collectormania 13 this past weekend, Natalia Tena said that the only scene she filmed for her role as Tonks in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was the attack on the Burrow, a new scene added by Warner Bros.  Tena also spoke about her reaction to the seventh book, specifically the wedding scene.

Roger Rapoport of RDR books has recently been interviewed by The Chicago Tribune. In the article, he speaks about the recent JKR/WB vs. RDR books court case.

Tony Coburn will play Young Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.  Coburn previously played Ebenezer Scrooge in a stage production of A Christmas Carol and was also a presenter for the BBC children's series Totally Doctor Who.

William Moseley (Peter Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia films) tells MTV that he was considered for the role of Harry Potter back in 2000 but feels he didn't quite "fit the bill".

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