Websites
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Enjoy this multi-layered, interactive website, where you hear from the author herself.
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Just how well do you know Harry's world? Test your knowledge with the quizzes (for the whole series) on this site.
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One of the most popular fan sites.
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Another very popular fan site.
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Warner Bros has a Harry Potter iPhone app out that let's you compete in wizard duels!
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A fan site looks at the origins of names of spells, people, creatures, and places found in the Harry Potter series.
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Find out on this handy pronunciation guide.
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Everything you every wanted to know about the Harry Potter books. Check out the Wizard Atlas, the Quidditch Handbook, visit the Bestiary, get a Visitor's Tour of Hogwarts, or brush up on your Magical Theory and Muggle Studies. The Lexicon also has a massive encyclopedia of people, places, spells, potions, and more.
Movie or TV Productions
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This hugely successful film production, directed by Chris Columbus, was nominated for three Oscars.
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Probably not for seriously devoted fans: this "mockumentary" puts a funny twist on the Harry Potter legend.
Documents
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This phenomenal collection of interviews includes chats with Rowling, Jim Dale, Daniel Radcliffe, co-editor Arthur Levine, and director Chris Columbus.
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Read the 1999 rave by Michael Winerip.
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Check out this collection of Rowling-related articles that have appeared in the Times.
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Transcript of a radio interview conducted by Diane Rehm.
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Transcript of an interview with Rowling originally from scholastic.com.
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A Cooperative Children's Book Center brief review and list of other original 1999 reviews, as well as a list of awards.
Video
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Watch J.K. Rowling's speech given at Harvard University's commencement on June 5th of 2008.
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Watch an excerpt from a documentary about J. K. Rowling.
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Watch an interview with J. K. Rowling.
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Watch the trailer for the 2001 movie.
Audio
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An NPR Weekend Edition Saturday episode: "NPR's Margot Adler talks with kids in New York City about the recently released movie Harry Potter: The Sorcerer's Stone (based on the book by J.K. Rowling)."
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From NPR's All Things Considered, 1998: " NPR's Margot Adler reports on a new series of children's books that have been at the top of Britain's best seller lists - and are making their way to the States. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is the work of author Joanne Rowling, whose work has been compared to Roald Dahl."
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Purchase and download the Audiobook from Random House Audio
Images
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Check out the vast Image Galleries at the Leaky Cauldron.
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Check out the book covers for the American, British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Spanish editions of Sorcerer's Stone. Which cover art do you like most?