NEWS FOR THE DAY 17.03.06

Grint, Fiennes Films to be Screened at Tribeca Film Festival

Rupert Grint's and Ralph Fiennes' latest films will be screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, which will take place throughout Manhattan from April 25 - May 7, 2006. Mr. Fiennes stars in Land of the Blind, one of the 169 films announced for the festival yesterday. Rupert Grint's film Driving Lessons was one of 60 more films announced by festival organizers today.

TriWizard Tournament Update, Contest and More

Hey all - got some updates for you Beauxbatons over at the TriWizard Tournament (if you're not a Beauxbaton, you're not on Leaky's team! Sorry, guys).

Lots of info below, but first: Leaky is also announcing a contest related to this event: Once the tournament begins properly, the students to raise the most points for Beauxbatons will be featured on PotterCast at regular intervals (we'll determine a good interval once the contest has started - perhaps weekly, perhaps semi-weekly, perhaps monthly, we're not sure yet).

So sign up if you haven't; enrollment is closed, but if you still want to participate, use the code "LEAKY" when you enter (you must register before entering); this offer ends on March 20.

The practice task is now open; if you're sorted and enrolled you can earn 300 points by participating - and simply clicking this link gets you an extra 20.

Once you're sorted, you can get points by playing in your common room; the link to the practice task is below the common room as well.

Have fun, guys!

Half-Blood Prince Released in Finland

The Finnish translation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was released yesterday, andHPfanit has some photos up of the release parties. Ilkka and Milja let us know that there were parties in 30 bookstores which were all celebrating the release of "Harry Potter ja puoliverinen prinssi." You can see the cover of this edition, which has an intial print run of 130,000 copies, here in our Galleries.