Actor Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) promotes Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince at Marunouchi Picadilly, a movie theater in Tokyo, Japan.

This press conference combines two of my favorite things: Harry Potter and Japan. It should be full of so much awesome that my head explodes .

Instead, it is  incredibly awkward and weird.

Jamie Waylett, who plays Vincent Crabbe in the Harry Potter movies, appeared in a London court this past Thursday to plead guilty to charges of producing cannabis.

Waylett… was originally busted in April after police searched a car he was riding in and discovered eight bags of marijuana and a knife. Police then raided his mother’s home and found 10 marijuana plants. The cannabis was reportedly worth approximately $2,900 and was growing under hydroponic lights, next to a PlayStation console.

Along with a friend, the 19-year-old Waylett pleaded guilty to growing the drug at a hearing at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 14 years. Judge Timothy Workman announced that the two men would be sentenced Tuesday.

And bloggers all over the world struggle to put together all manner of pot / potter word puns.

The reports in the Associated Press didn’t say anything about it, but shouldn’t his mother be held responsible in some way? I find it hard to believe that he was growing pot in his mother’s house and she knew nothing about it.

Yup, that’s right. Like a Tori Amos album, this thing leaked days before its planned release date.

I’m not going to tell you where to get it.

But if you know where to look for BitTorrents, you know where to look for this.

Oh, who am I kidding? This is a gossip blog.

TorrentSpy.com, guys.

Update: This thing is pretty worthless. I’m not a big Harry Potter fan, but I went ahead and downloaded it just to see if anyone dies. But basically someone just took photos — from pretty far away — of all the pages. It’s barely readable. I’m sure someone will strain their eyeballs and figure out what happens, but that someone’s not going to be me. One of the page photos is after the jump if you want to see what it looks like. You’ll have to click on it a few times to see it full-size.

Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix hits theaters July 13.

Dude, little Harry Potter got hot. Daniel Radcliffe, 17, who has starred in the Harry Potter films since the first release in 2001, is now working his magic on the ladies in a series of promotional photos for Equus, a play he’s doing on London’s West End. While the play is an award-winning dark psychological drama about a young boy who blinds a stable of horses with a spike, the photos (check them out here) feature a naked Harry Potter (with rock-hard abs and a happy trail to die for … if you like that sort of thing) posing with a white horse (notably less hot).

So … props go out to a former child star looking to take on a challenging and meaningful theatrical role. Right? Um, no. Parents of Harry Potter’s legion of young fans are outraged, and are sending angry emails to Harry Potter fansites. (Truly, I didn’t realize how utterly ungrounded the general public can be until I started posting my email address along with my Film.com column last week, and have since received not one but two emails from separate individuals who apparently believe me to be Tyra Banks and would like me to come and visit them at their house. Directions from the airport provided.) Here is one choice quote: “We as parents feel Daniel should not appear nude. Our nine-year-old son looks up to him as a role model. We are very disappointed and will avoid the future movies he makes.” Right, guys, because Daniel Radcliffe, six years ago, signed a contract agreeing to behave in a strictly Harry Potter-like fashion until the age of 45, or until you as parents step up to serve as the primary role models in your child’s life, whichever comes first.