Dan receives award nomination and more

It would seem our favorite author is doing a bit of updating on her website today as there are now several very interesting new entries about the final Harry Potter novel. First up: a new entry in the Extra Stuff section of her website, regarding that mysterious Elder Wand. Also, there are two (SPOILERS AHOY) FAQ entries about "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," in particular involving events with Lord Voldemort, here, and here. Be sure to check out the Characters section for an amusing entry about Harry and big D (spoilers)

A lovely entry in Jo's Diary reads as follows:
"Where did the last four months go? It feels as though Hallows was published, and then I slipped through some strange time portal in which everything went at double-quick time, only to be spat out in early December.
People keep saying to me, 'I expect things have calmed down now you've finished?' to which my answer some days is a fairly humourless laugh. I have been exceptionally busy since July, what with the US/Canadian tour, Beedle the Bard, assorted charitable commitments, a massive post-publication mountain of correspondence, plus those three children I insisted on bringing into the world. Consequence: neglect of website! However, I am putting up a few updates today in News (where you will see that I have also been busy with a documentary), FAQs and Extras. I hope to put up a few more titbits in due course.
The US/Canadian tour was my favourite ever. If anybody reading this was in the audience for any of those events, thank you, because they were only as wonderful as they were because of the brilliant questions and the overwhelming warmth of those present.
Delving even further back into the Lost Four Months, the launch of 'Hallows' at the National History Museum in London was also my favourite of all time, and to all those who queued so long and patiently, you were incredible, and I loved meeting every single one of you.
'Deathly Hallows' remains my favourite book of the series. I hope that, even if it is not yours, you understood, at least, that this was where the story was always leading; it was the ending I had planned for seventeen years, and there was more satisfaction than you can probably imagine in finally sharing it with my readers.
As for mourning Harry – and I doubt I will be believed when I say this – nobody can have felt the end as deeply as I did. The writing of Harry Potter has been inextricably linked with my life for seventeen years, and saying goodbye has been just as tough as I always knew it would be. So I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has written to me since publication, saying such wonderful things about what the books meant to them, because your words meant the world to me at this very bittersweet time.

Finally, Jo has revealed the air date of the special documentary that will be broadcast in the UK on ITV : Sunday 30th December 2007