"Harry Potter" creator JK Rowling is teaming up with music streamer Spotify to launch an audio recording of the series' debut book, "The Sorcerer's Stone", the first chapter of which will be read by film franchise star Daniel Radcliffe.

A catholic school in Nashville, Tennessee has banned Harry Potter books, saying that the curses and spells mentioned in JK Rowling's wizard saga may lead to "conjuring evil spirits" when read by a human being.

British author JK Rowling has revealed she is expanding her wizarding world of Harry Potter with four new eBook shorts. The author said the digital short stories would be themed around the curriculum Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley studies at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.