Earlier today we reported that a new scene from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince aired during CBBC's Blue Peter. We captured the clip when it aired, and it can be viewed right here on YouTube.

The Phelps twins also made an appearance on the show. It can be seen on BBC iPlayer for UK fans. If you're elsewhere in the world, you can watch it online right here.

James and Oliver Phelps, who play the always fun Fred and George Weasley in the Potter films, are celebrating their 23rd birthday today. Happy Birthday boys!

Thanks to everyone who e-mailed with the tip.

SnitchSeeker has posted a new interview with the actors who play Fred and George Weasley, James and Oliver Phelps respectively. The interview is centered around the Half-Blood Prince video game for which the guys recorded their voices.

How does it feel now, having done the character and that's your voice, knowing that thousands of kids are playing the game?

James: You kind of forget that you've done them when you come to play it. Well, we did so many lines that you can't really remember what says what. It's kind of hard when you're playing other games like where you're in character it's kind of like having the perfect character of … in that aspect it's really cool.
Oliver: And it's quite fun as well when you're actually playing and you're running around as Harry Potter or Fred or George with a wand and see what they do. See what they say.
James: One of the reasons they record us in the booths doing that is because then when we do our actions then they can add the actions to the character speaking. And when they're doing that it's very real. It's very true to our being.

Rupert Grint, along with his on-screen twin brothers, James and Oliver Phelps, attended the NME music awards in London last night. Some photos of them can be seen here, with Rupert sporting rather long hair.

At yesterday's Eragon premiere in London, Katie Leung, Bonnie Wright, and the Phelps Twins were present at the film's first showing, and they attended the after-party. You can see a few photos at Shurtugal and at Getty! Thanks to everyone who e-mailed with the tip.

The fourth film won the Bafta Kids' vote for the favorite movie of the year. Rupert Grint and James and Oliver Phelps were in attendance at the ceremony this evening in London. GOF was ousted in the Best Feature film category by Wallace and Gromit.

Images from Rupert's appearance are available in our gallery, a video can be seen here (1 MB, wmv), and screencaps from that video here.

Late Friday night, MuggleNet's servers ran into an issue that prevented us from updating the news and all site content. We're happy to report that we're back online now, and ready to update everyone with this past weekend's Potter news stories!

- The full Order of the Phoenix trailer will debut online at HappyFeetMovie.com tomorrow (Monday) at 12 PM PST/3 PM EST.

- Warner Bros. has released a ten second excerpt from the Movie 5 trailer that can be downloaded below:

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- The Today Show, an Australian TV show, aired some clips from behind the scenes of OOTP. HPFZ now has clips of the show hosted on their website!

- E! has announced that it will air a report from the the fifth movie set, and a commercial for the show can be seen over at DanRadcliffe.com. The special will air on The Daily 10, which starts at 7:30 PM, and it is expected that the report will be shown tomorrow. If anyone can capture a video of this, please let us know.

- James and Oliver Phelps (the Weasley twins) were featured in People magazine recently in a section titled, "Doubly Delicious." View a scan here.

- The official website for OOTP is now open.

- Bonnie Wright recently took part in the lighting of Marylebone Street's Christmas lights in London, and a video of this ceremony can be seen here. Thanks to BonnieWrightOnline.com!

- As a final note, MuggleCast will be slightly late today due to the server issues. Episode 64 is recorded but will be released Monday evening.

At Collectormania 9 yesterday, James and Oliver Phelps spoke a little to CBBC Newsround. With regard to filming the Order of the Phoenix movie, James commented: "We can't say too much, but filming is going really well - it's really good fun."

Oliver added: "We've met a few of the new actors to join the cast and they seem really cool and we're looking forward to working with them."

They also discussed the fan attention they receive because of the Harry Potter films. "It's still weird when there's loads of people coming to meet you, but at the same time quite nice as well," said James. Oliver elaborated: "And it's all part of the filming process - it's nice to get feedback from everyone who's seen and appreciates the film."

Thanks to everyone who emailed!