It’s April of 2008 and we have of-the-month features to announce! Congratulations to Johnny and Leviosa, Pas Leviosaaa for winning the POTM and SOTM awards this month, respectively. Johnny gave a great answer to the question “Do you identify more with Emma or Hermione?” and for that, received the April ’08 FOTM award, congratulations! Leviosa, Pas Leviosaaa is a great Ron/Hermione shipper fansite to whom we’re glad to present the April ’08 SOTM award. The Picture of the Month page is always fun to look through – so much cuteness! – and I have one of my own favorite Emma photos, from her Times Online photoshoot, up there for April, so check that out!

Speaking of Of The Months, the question for May is up at the FOTM page. You are Emma for a day. How do you spend your day?! If you’d like to enter – and you’re definitely encouraged to try! – head on over to the FOTM page before the end of April and give us your best answer.

The IHW press archives have a new layout up, created by our very own Kaetlyn. Pretty, no? Because this is our first-ever Press Archives Layout Change, we’ve added for the Very First Time, the Press Archives Past Layouts bit to the past layouts page.

Speaking of past layouts – we look a bit different today, no?! The new layout was created by Kaetlyn, featuring photos from Emma’s 2005 Elle Girl photoshoot and textures from Hybrid Genesis. There’s a bit of green, for spring, and we think it’s pretty fun. Pretty, no?

A bit of new appearance news! Emma attended the opening of a Balenciaga store this February and we have, thanks to shyngr8 at the Sassy! forums, a photo of Emma from the event from Vogue UK. There’s a short report from the event at InStyle UK:

Oh there were other journos in the room, but they don’t count because I highly doubt they love Balenciaga as much as I do. Except maybe Emma Watson, who told me: “I have never met the designer before, but I can’t wait. I’m wearing Balenciaga top-to-toe.”

The blurb along with the Vogue UK scan reads:

I joined Emma Watson (in flats so as not to upset her teen fanclub!) at the opening of Balenciaga’s Mount Street store followed by a cosy dinner at Harry’s Bar, hosted by Charlotte Gainsbourg and Nicolas Ghesquiere.

Check that out at the galleries here!

Finally, over a thousand screen captures from various Potter DVD special features have been added to the gallery, as well as untagged versions of the HP&OOTP London premiere photos that were uploaded earlier this week.

So — will you forgive us our little April Fool’s prank?

edit! Hey all! During the period where I was Internet-less, I pulled my all my resources and added some more, so I’ve got lots to upload! At the moment, I’ve uploaded a few albums (plus the caps above), and I’ve got loads of new appearance/premiere based pictures. Just keep checking the latest uploads. If you find any duplicates, just throw some sort of shoe at me – but please, I’m not a shoe psychic, pass along which images are duplicates. Please and thank you! - Kaetlyn