The victory actually belongs to Stephenie Meyer, the mastermind behind the Twilight series and the person who can take pride of beating out Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling.

While Rowling can boast she sold more books (143 million vs 40 million), Stephenie's epic vampire love tale has held its own on the USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list longer than any other author, including Rowling.

As of this week, the four books making up the Twilight Saga are numbers 4, 5, 6 and 7 on the list. They've held the first four spots a total of 13 weeks in the past year and have remained in the Top Ten for 52 consecutive weeks. That beats Rowling by a long shot, as her first four novels were top 10 for only 13 consecutive weeks!

Furthermore, with the second novel, New Moon, premiering in November and the holiday season rapidly approaching, there doesn't seem to be an end in sight for the Twilight Saga's popularity.

Course, Stephenie could help her numbers along if she wrote another book in the series. Rowling wrote seven.

C'mon - you know you want to! Rack in on that vampire blood money! Please!

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Attention Muggles!

It's J.K. Rowling's birthday!

In celebration of her natal feast day, CLICK HERE for a photo gallery dedicated to the Harry Potter scribe.

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Making a major motion picture is pretty damn expensive, so sometimes it is necessary to rinse and reuse some sets from other films. We've learned that Harry Potter is gonna cook up some of his magic in a castle currently being used in the Russell Crowe medieval pic, Robin Hood.

The castle is part of an entire set director Ridley Scott had constructed specifically for the HoodHarry Potter & The Deadly Hallows, will take residence there once the other movie is wrapped.

Way to recycle!

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More celebrity justice for ya!!!

Jamie Waylett, who plays bully Vincent Crabbe in the Harry Potter films, was sentenced to 120 hours of community service after pleading guilty to growing marijuana.

Ten marijuana plants were found in the actor's bedroom of his mother's house in London!!!

Classy!

The maximum for this crime is 14 years behind bars, so he should thank his lucky wizard stars that he's an actor!

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It's truly the matchup everyone is waiting to see, and only Jimmy Fallon can bring it to you. (It's almost hard to contain yourselves, isn't Twi-Hards & Pot-Heads?)

Watch as Jimmy showcases the kind of Robert Pattinson and Daniel Radcliffe verbal squabble that would never happen in real life, but would be a better place if it did.

Note: Even Jimmy's R-Patz impersonation is better than Dan Rad! We kid. We kid.

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Well, Harry Potter is certainly proving to be quite the monster hit!

The film earned $58.4 million in the U.S. box office on its first full day of domestic release.

That placed the film second for a Wednesday release after Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen's debut of $62 million.

The Dark Knight is still the number one Wednesday opener of all time with $67.2 million.

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In the age of the Internet, movie bootleggers have found a new outlet to sell copyrighted movies still in theatres. But, take caution, because the biggest movie of the year could cost you your computer and your identity.

Sources are saying that there are some nasty crooks out there just waiting to pounce on your computer's hard-drive by creeping in alongside illegal downloads of the new Harry Potter movie.

It's being called the most "targeted film" on the web and it's only been out one day, and hackers are using the popularity to their advantage. Using crimeware, the hackers go into people's computers through the download, stealing all kinds of personal information like credit card numbers and bank information.

So be forewarned: Being cheap and lazy and not shelling out the measly 10 bucks to see the flick will cost you more than you bargained for. Besides, a movie like that deserves to be seen on a big screen!

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With its 6th installment, the Harry Potter franchise is projected to surpass the all-time top-grosser film franchise, James Bond, at the box office.

Over the course of 5 films, Potter has grossed $4.48 billion while Bond holds the record at $5 billion over 22 movies - starting with 1962's Dr No.

With several midnight screenings already sold out in advance, the boy wizard is expected to overtake Bond by the end of the month.

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It hasn't even been 24 hours and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is already breaking records!

The latest installment of the Harry Potter series has won the title of "Best Midnight Gross" of all time!!!!

The Half-Blood Prince earned a massive $20 million in ticket sales at its 12:01 a.m. opening Tuesday night, topping the midnight sales of both The Dark Night ($18 mil) and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith ($17 mil).

Even the midnight release of 2007's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix can't hold a candle to last night's numbers - the last film in the HP series only grossed $12 million from 12 a.m. sales!

Who knows how high the figures will climb by the weekend's close!

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