Info. for today - 26 st Feb 2007

You may remember last year Jo Rowling posted on her website concerning how she asked eBay to adopt preventative measures against the sale of illegal and forged merchandise. The online market giant was, however, unhelpful.

Unauthorized copies of the Harry Potter books have been sold on the Indian version of eBay, and JKR has now obtained an injunction which prohibits illegal copies of her work being listed. This court order is binding until the hearing resumes on May 23rd.

Rowling's legal representative stated, "If they can do it in this case then they can do it a lot more. This is the first time eBay has been compelled to take measures to prevent e-books being sold."

A series of Harry Potter stamps is set to be released in France later this year, and we now have two more photos of them. This one has our first look at the Thestrals, and this one shows Grawp.

Last week it was named an Editors' Choice book, and today MuggleNet.com's What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7 entered the New York Times Children's Paperback Bestseller List at #4, with only Bridge to Terabithia, High School Musical, and Eragon selling more copies.

Harry Potter fans rock! We love you guys!

Here's a new photo of young Peter Pettigrew from "Snape's Worst Memory."

A survey carried out among 2,000 children showed that Sorcerer's Stone is the favorite movie of UK kids. In second place was Prisoner of Azkaban, followed by Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

In a new interview, Michael Gambon speaks of how playing Dumbledore has changed his fanbase: "I was in the makeup chair recently, and someone brought in two kids. I peeled the beard off, and they started crying. They couldn't believe what they were seeing."

Gambon also commented on Dan Radcliffe's stage debut in Equus: "He's growing up. He's a proper theater actor now. He's naked in this thing, so all the girls will go out and see it. I'd be frightened running around the stage with nothing on at all. When you stop running, one thing keeps moving. I bet he didn't think of that."

thanks a lot rukul! thanks for the thestral pic... and actually grawp luks kinda cute dont u think 😆 😆 😆

awwww grawpy sho cute 😳 but no match for my voldy 😆
thnx rukul 😃