Her hunger for first day of class getting-to-know-you exercises not yet satiated, Emma Watson plans to give college one more go and will return to Brown next year to finish her English degree, her rep confirmed Tuesday.

J.K. Rowling's first post-Harry Potter book The Casual Vacancy was released this weekend to (at best) mixed reviews. The one thing everyone agrees about: This is an Adult Novel with plenty of Dirty Bits. But how dirty is it? We've crunched the numbers.

Though she just finished her first adult novel after writing exclusively about Harry Potter for over a decade, J.K. Rowling says she's not done writing for younger readers, and could even return to the world of Hogwarts if inspiration should strike.

Daniel Radcliffe, The Boy Who Lived and Starred in the Harry Potter Movies, partied with some Irish Gaelic Football (soccer) players. And thanks to the miracle of Brit slang, we can say he "had a magical night on the piss."

Have you ever thought it might be cool to hang out with J. K. Rowling? Because the Harry Potter books shaped your childhood, or your children's childhood, or your parents' childhood (future babies), or because you love hanging out with millionaires, or because you have a fetish for older, soft-spoken white women with a touch of sadness about the eyes?

Teen death rattle trumps adolescent wizardry: The Hunger Games surpasses Harry Potter as best-selling books of all time.

A Defense Department contractor in charge of the prisoners' library at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp reports that early episodes of the '90s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air are in high demand among the 168 captives presently serving out the second decade of an indefinite detention.

Little, Brown and Company this morning unveiled the cover of J.K. Rowling's first post-Harry-Potter novel, The Casual Vacancy.

With a strong female hero at its core, The Hunger Games is viewed by some as the anti-Twilight. Maybe that's why so many were turned off by the suggestion of Twilight vampire Robert Pattinson as Finnick Odair in Catching Fire.

At the Denver Zoo, a bluffing big shot relies on the protection of Plexiglas to stare down an increasingly unhappy lion.

Harry Potter alum Emma Watson, who plays a very bad girl in Sofia Coppola's upcoming film about notorious Hollywood burglars "The Bling Ring," has apparently let some of that femme fatality seep into her off-screen life.

For weeks, I've been reminding you all that The Avengers is on the horizon — it doesn't take a box office psychic to realize a film of this magnitude will do well. And wouldn't you know, The Avengers' Friday take was $80.5 million, making it the second biggest Friday opening of all time. (Number one remains Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, because wizards are cooler than superheroes, clearly.)

Little, Brown this morning revealed additional details about J.K. Rowling's upcoming post-Harry-Potter "novel for adults," which is set to be released Thursday, September 27th, in hardback, ebook, unabridged audio download, and CD formats.

Ever a Slytherin, Harry Potter actor Jamie Waylett has been sentenced to two years in jail for his participation in last summer's London riots.

Good news for people who love the Harry Potter series but are maybe too old to be seen reading any of the books in public: J.K. Rowling is writing a novel for adults.

Can't say we've ever heard a comparison between Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and English wizard Harry Potter before. But it kind of makes sense, doesn't it? No, not really. But we thank old Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch for making it anyway!

The beta version of Pottermore, the much-discussed multimedia-moneymaker-somethingorother announced by J.K. Rowling in July, has gone live for a few thousand obsessive fans. How obsessive? To qualify as beta testers of Pottermore, they had to find seven different clues on seven different websites on seven different days. At the Sony website, they were asked how many owls appear on a particular shop sign in Diagon Alley, and told to multiply that number by seven. At the Guardian website, they were told to multiply a particular Quidditch game's score by 35. (Wizarding is mathy business.)

Announcement: The "next Harry Potter" is going to be The Night Circus, a historical fiction series about dueling 19C circus magicians written by a never-before-published writer named Erin Morgenstern. The Night Circus is happening, whether you like it or not.

Like an intemperate child placed in "time out," tabloid sex perv and professional journalist Andrea Peyser has resorted to "acting out" in order to grab our attention, now that we've stopped covering her every last cock-imbued utterance in order to write about topics more useful to society, like brawls in fast food restaurants.

When etiquette guides of the future answer the question What do you do when you meet the gay porn star playing you?, they will probably include this photograph of Emma Watson, who plays Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies, alongside Cameron Adams, who plays, yes, "Himmione Gainghim" in Whorrey Potter and the Sorcerer's Balls.