Could there be another Harry Potter book? There’s a chance, however slim. We already know that J.K. Rowling has eventual plans to release a Harry Potter encyclopedia (known jokingly as “The Scottish Book” by JKR), but what about another novel.

According to CW Arkansas, JKR has said she might one day, though Harry would not be the primary character. Note that the author is not confirming that there will be another book set at Hogwarts, though the possibility is still open.

There was a problem with the news feed, which rendered it inaccessible. For how long, we are not sure. It’s working again now, and hopefully there won’t be any further problems with it.

Warner Brothers and Archos are partnering to release a Portable Media Player (PMP) that will come pre-loaded with the first four Harry Potter films (the fifth will be available for download). The device, an Archos 605 WiFi, will contain twenty gigabytes of hard disk space, and will cost 189.99 pounds (GBP). The device will be available in select Blockbuster video rental stores in the UK. No word has been given on whether or not the device will be available in North America.

Source: Pocket-Lint.co.uk

The two biggest Harry Potter podcasts, PotterCast and MuggleCast, have both received the honor of being in the iTunes Best Podcasts of 2007 list. To view the list, open your copy of the iTunes software, and visit the Podcasts directory.

In related news, the PotterCast listing in the iTunes podcast database has been vandalized by Mugglenet users. There are large quantities of negative reviews (with ratings of 1-2 stars) containing nothing but “Mugglecast is better!” or “if you want to listen to a much better harry potter [sic] podcast, listen to Mugglecast.” These pointless comments are immature, and they ruin the iTunes podcast directory for the rest of us. MuggleCast, please tell your listeners to cut it out.

J.K. Rowling will appear on PotterCast on December 18, 2007. It will be the first ever podcast interview with JKR.

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JKR’s Tales of Beedle the Bard has sold at auction for two million pounds ($3.98 million). The buyer? Amazon.com. They will be taking the book on tour to various libraries and schools so people can see portions of it.

For those who don’t already know, the book is one of seven in existence, hand-lettered and illuminated by J.K. Rowling. The remaining six have been given to “people instrumental to Harry since his inception.” The proceeds of the publicly sold copy will go to charity.

Welcome to the updated Site of Requirement! Here are some of the major changes that have been made over the last few days:

• The layout has been re-coded, fully utilizing CSS instead of the clunky table-based structure from before.
• Some old features, like the chatroom, have been retired.
• All of our different content types have been brought together under a single “Departments” header in the navigation bar.
• There have been some changes to the back-end.
• Our user-submitted theories system has been retired, due to disuse and because we thought it would be better to integrate all of the theories into a single “Theories” section (under the Departments header).
• If you go to pottersurf.com/news/ you’ll find something else in addition to the normal news content. To the right of the news is PotterWire, a system that aggregates Harry Potter news from around the web (automatically updated hourly). We can’t possibly cover all HP news (and we wouldn’t want to!), but you can find plenty of articles through the PotterWire system.

Expect to see more Quibbler articles, P934 episodes, and more in the coming months. If you’d like to write for us, feel free to send an email to redwall.hp at site of requirement dot com.

J.K. Rowling has updated her website (jkrowling.com), adding a page to the “Extra Stuff” section, revealing the core of the Elder Wand.

There has been previous talk about the Order of the Phoenix DVD having a downloadable version included for playback on portable media players. Sorry to disappoint you, but Warner Brothers is helping out Microsoft.

The downloadable version of the movie will only play on “any device that supports Windows Media digital rights management.” That excludes iPods…the biggest group of portable video players by far.

“Was there any doubt?” says online bookseller Amazon.com. “The final episode of the most popular series in publishing history, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, leads our list of the 100 topselling books on Amazon.com during 2007.”