Mark Twain and J.K. Rowling are favorite authors to many readers. But they are also among a long list of authors whose works have been challenged and banned over the years.

Banned Books Week, sponsored by the American Libraries Association, starts Saturday and continues through Oct. 6. Started in 1982, the observance highlights books which have been challenged in schools and libraries.

... Strangely enough, the HP series didn't even make a dent on the top ten, found here. Read more of the referenced article, here.

This time from Brazil.

New audio interviews with David Heyman & Stuart Craig over at Voices From Krypton. Give them a listen!

Note: Spoilers, HBP and up.

Check it out over at High-Def Digest.

There may not be any more Harry Potter books coming out, but the magic will continue at Stanford this fall with "Harry Potter and the Arc of Storytelling," a highly coveted Student Initiated Course (SIC). Read about it at the Standford Daily.

Hi everyone!

With our move to eveningprophet.com, some of our material got misplaced and a wee bit out of sorts thanks to a collision or two with a Whomping Technological Willow. We're also taking the opportunity to upgrade all our facts, pictures, and pages around the site.

For example, you can now find The Deathly Hallows Chat - Bloomsbury, 7/30 right over here.

Me too. So, as found elsewhere, the first mention of Harry Potter, before it got all popular.

The other books on the fiction best-seller list are "The Night Before Christmas" (Putnam) by Clement C. Moore and "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" (Scholastic) by J. K. Rowling, certainly closer to belles lettres than Ms. Curtis's work.

Online bidding was up to $7,000 Friday afternoon for a complete set of the Harry Potter books signed by author J.K. Rowling in a fund-raiser for the Clifton Park-based Catie Hoch Foundation. Bids for the signed Harry Potter books can be placed at the auction website, www.whenharrymetcatie.com, until Sept. 26.

The final bidder will be announced at the Catiebug Gala on Saturday, Sept. 29, at the Saratoga Auto Museum in the Saratoga Spa State Park. Tickets are $100 and are still available.

Story here.

So, spoilers.
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HBP and Deathly Hallows spoilers at the link.

And as a side note, this cute little news snippet of Emma Watson's sisters joining her in Ballet Shoes.

With the resounding global success of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix behind him, director David Yates is already at work on the sixth film in the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. In this exclusive interview over at Voices from Krypton, he discusses the appeal of the new project, what made him move from one film to the next and how he hopes to differentiate his two efforts in the Harry Potter universe.

There are spoilers!

Featuring Dumbledore, Death Eaters, Snape and Harry, you can look at all of them right over here. There's also a 'making of feature' for the Snape figurine.

You can play it right over here.

Katie Leung is in line for the most stylish Scotswoman of 2007, sponsored by Glasgow:Scotland with Style, champagne house Moet & Chandon and radio station Xfm. The awards will be held at the Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow on October 26.

More details, here.

Peoria Park District's "Return to Hogwarts" event, now in its fifth year, set all new attendance records. Check out the writeup.