There are twenty-eight tracks, with some good music in them. Nicholas Hooper has produced another great Harry Potter score.

You can also pre-order the CD on Amazon.

No longer just an unknown little lizard, Basil is now as big as a mountain—and the most powerful dragon of all times. His majestic wings, gigantic tail, and jewel-bright eyes fill the sky as he and the great wizard Merlin, loyal friends and courageous defenders of Avalon, strive boldly to save their world.

Mr. Barron also assures everyone that the film adaptation of The Lost Years of Merlin is still happening, albeit at the glacial pace of the movie industry. Details are still scarce, save for the fact that Paramount is developing it.

The running time is listed as “153m 19s,” with a content rating of “12A.” (The MPAA lists the film as “PG.”)

In other Harry Potter news, the IMAX release of Half-Blood Prince has been delayed two weeks. The movie will still be shown in standard-format theaters on the same date of July 15, 2009.

The suit claims that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire infringes upon Willy the Wizard due to both books having “wizards traveling on trains and a magical competition featuring a challenge involving a hostage situation.” The late author’s lawyers also allege that he had been in contact with literary agent Christopher Little, who later worked with J. K. Rowling to bring Harry Potter to publication.

“The central character of Willy the Wizard is not a young wizard, and the book does not revolve around a wizard school,” the publisher declared, as well as they had not heard of Jacobs or his work until the suit was filed.

This isn’t the first time that someone has made plagarism allegations against the Harry Potter franchise, and it is likely that this case is no more credible.

LEGO® Harry Potter: Years 1-4 will give gamers the chance to experience the magic and adventure of Harry Potter in a uniquely LEGO way. Playing as Harry Potter, Ron Weasley™ and Hermione Granger™, as well as other favorite characters, gamers will have the opportunity to attend lessons, cast spells, mix potions, fly on broomsticks and complete tasks to earn house points. Throughout the game, players will also have the freedom to explore iconic settings from the wizarding world including Hogwarts castle, Diagon Alley™, the Forbidden Forest and the village of Hogsmeade™!

The game will be made by a partnership of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Traveller’s Tales, who partnered with LucasArts to develop the hit LEGO Star Wars games.

If the game ends up anything like the LEGO Star Wars series, with the same unique brand of humor and fun gameplay, it’s sure to be a hit.

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 is currently set for a 2010 release. You can view a trailer for the game here.

There is no final publication date as of yet, though it “right now looks likely to be early-ish in 2010.” The editing process is just beginning, and will likely take some time, and after which there will of course be other things to be done before the book goes to print.

Nix says that he hopes “that the first two chapters or so will be put up online in the next few months, to ease a little of the pain of the cliffhanger at the end of SUPERIOR SATURDAY.”

Hopefully the author will be able to start work on his next book in the Sabriel series in the near future, now that The Keys to the Kingdom is almost out of the way.

Oft-described as the United Kingdom’s Smallville, the program has gained quite a following during its first season.

The show is set in Camelot, where Merlin meets Uther’s son Arthur, who is about the same age. (Other characters, such as Morgana and Guinivere are part of the story as well.) Merlin must prevent mishap after mishap while subtly preparing Arthur to be the prophesied king…all without revealing his powers to Camelot, with its ban on all things magic.

A new website, MerlinSite.com, run by the same group behind the leading Smallville fan site, will cover all the news about the show. We will tip you off here of anything major, if it comes to our attention.

In Bloodhound, counterfeit coins are flooding Corus, Tortall’s capital, devaluing the silver and pushing prices up. The Provost’s Guard tries to keep the scale of the problem secret to prevent panic, and the counterfeits are traced back to Port Caynn. Beka is sent there with Clara Goodwin, after another Dog in their group was disabled during a riot, to investigate the counterfeits. There, they soon realize the size of the operation…

Bloodhound is a worthy addition to the Beka Cooper series, though the wait between it and the previous book was a bit excessive. It stands well on its own, but you get more out of it if you read the first book before starting Bloodhound.

The book is, like its predecessor Inkspell, set in the Inkworld rather than in the contemporary like Inkheart. The Adderhead is virtually immortal, but sick, after the climax of the previous book, and he will stop at nothing to find the traitorous bookbinder-slash-robber Bluejay (who much resembles Robin Hood).

The Adderhead is out to get the Bluejay and Meggie, and the less-than-pleasant Orpheus is still trying to rewrite Fenoglio’s story out from under the author of the world, causing no end of trouble. There surely is plenty going on, and things come to an agreeable end.

Oh, and Dustfinger returns, more powerful than ever…