Harry Potter, the Closet Wizard - Recycled in Slate: In South Carolina, the state board of education is considering whether the popular Harry Potter children's books should be banned from school libraries because of their upbeat depiction of witchcraft, wizardry, and other dark arts. - http://slate.com/id/37736/
A Wizard of Hollywood - Salon interview with Steve Cloves, screenwriter of the new Harry Potter movie. - http://archive.salon.com/ent/col/srag/2000/02/24/kloves/
Harry Potter Fans Detect Devilish Discrepancy - Garth Johnston's Salon Magazine article on possible discrepancies in the Harry Potter series. - http://archive.salon.com/books/log/2000/07/24/potter/
Quick Quote Quill - Comprehensive archive of JK Rowling's interviews and quotes. - http://www.accio-quote.org/
Guardian Books Special Reports: Harry Potter - Archive of news, comments, interviews, and audio clips related to the author and the books. - http://books.guardian.co.uk/harrypotter/
And Alice Played a Video Game - A study of the relationship between children's fantasy adventure stories and interactive computer games of American McGee's Alice and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. - http://www.english-literature.org/essays/alice_video.html
Second time's still a charm - USA Today review of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by Cathy Hainer. - http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/2001-07-17-sorcerers-stone.htm
Harry Potter Banned from Paper's Bestseller List - Guardian Unlimited article on why Harry Potter books are not included in the Sunday Times bestseller list. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3884000,00.html
The Sorcerers' Apprentice - Where did Harry learn his trade? Giles Foden gives a short history of wizards in literature. From The Guardian. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4035464,00.html
'Potter' Web fans organize boycott - USA Today article about the reaction to lawyers trying to shut down Harry Potter fan sites. - http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-02-22-potter.htm
Salon.com Harry Potter Articles - Salon Magazine article archive for Harry Potter related stories. - http://dir.salon.com/topics/harry_potter/
Spellbinding Textbooks - Linda Richards reviews the two booklets written for the benefit of Comic Relief, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" and "Quidditch Through the Ages": "both books [...] serve to illustrate quite graphically why [Rowling's] H - http://www.januarymagazine.com/kidsbooks/rowlingcomicrelief.html
All Aboard the Potter Express - Alan Cowell's New York Times article about J.K. Rowling's real life trip across Britain on the Hogwarts Express. - http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/071000rowling-interview.html
An Improbable Sequel: Harry Potter and the Ivory Tower - NY Times article (requires registration) on International Congress on Medieval Studies, where "the persistence of medieval archetypes in popular culture" was discussed - in works by J.K. Rowling and J.R.R. Tolkien - http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/12/arts/12MIDD.html
Lord of the Golden Snitch - Review of Harry Potter vol. 3 by Gregory Maguire (New York Times). - http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/09/05/reviews/990905.05maguirt.html
Funny, moving and impressive ... - Review of Harry Potter vol. 1 by Michael Winerip (New York Times).[Requires free registration]. - http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/02/14/reviews/990214.14childrt.html
Is Harry Potter Evil? - Judy Blume article on Harry Potter. - http://www.ncac.org/cen_news/cn76harrypotter.html
Harry's Real Magic - Review of Harry Potter vol. 4 by Linda Richards, editor of January Magazine. - http://www.januarymagazine.com/kidsbooks/harry4.html
Wild about Harry - Review of Harry Potter vol. 3 by Linda Richards, editor of January Magazine. - http://www.januarymagazine.com/kidsbooks/harrypotter.html
Besotted With Potter - William Safire New York Times essay on why he thinks J. K. Rowling not winning a top literary prize was the right thing. Registration required. - http://www.nytimes.com/library/opinion/safire/012700safi.html