The London Symphony Orchestra will be on tour here in the US as part of their “The Music of Hollywood” tour. Starting in September, the 15 city tour will feature concert performances of works including those from the Harry Potter films. Enhancing and underscoring each performance will be a stunning array of multimedia effects, including …read more!

Well, guys. You’ve done it again. We’re flabberghasted. We’re closing the drive down because we’ve already beseeched too much of your generosity, and we have more than enough to keep Leaky around a very long time. Most of the donations come in within 24 hours of the call for help…and they totalled almost $12,000 in …read more!

Various sites have been reporting for a while that the release date for the PoA DVD is November 23; we’d consider this a strong rumor, but the only word from WB is that they’re not ready to make an announcement on the date. Also, Jonah of HP-Fans.de has written to let us know that the …read more!

Leaky reader Alan has sent us pictures from today’s ceremony at the University of Edinburgh, where Jo Rowling received a doctor honoris causa. Not a goatee in sight! Jo gets her degree Jo talking to fans in the car park afterward, where some had gathered to get books signed. Thanks Alan! Update: Check out BBC …read more!

There’s an Ananova item parading as news, implying that Daniel Radcliffe could play in the film version of Sebastian Faulks’ WWI book, Birdsong. This is patently untrue for many reasons, the most important of which is that Daniel is on set until the spring doing GoF, and then will be taking his GCSEs (OWLs 🙂 …read more!

The release of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban has been delayed through the school holidays as part of an official government crackdown aimed at strengthening morals. Although the government has not described how the movie might have a negative impact on Chinese youth, the media speculates it is due to concern over growing …read more!

Sotheby’s in London today will auction Harry Potter items, including two preliminary drawings by Giles Greenfield for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (lots 364, 373, and 374). Sotheby’s site notes that the artist, whose artwork was used in the U.K. for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, was initially commissioned by …read more!

The National Endowment for the Arts has found that fewer than half of over 17,000 American adults surveyed read literature (defined as ‘poems, plays, or narrative fiction’), a drop of 7 points over the last decade. NEA chairman Dana Gioia expressed concern for the results: “We have a lot of functionally literate people who are …read more!

J.K. Rowling will receive an honorary degree (“doctor honoris causa”) from Edinburgh University today. Her response to the announcement, which was made in February, was “I am delighted and honoured to be receiving an honorary degree from the University of Edinburgh, my adopted home city.”

Harry & the Potters are going to be in Illinois this week, then along the west coast through July before returning to Ohio, Pennsylvania and Massacheusetts towards the start of autumn. Check out their full tour schedule here – and a special note: their September 17 show in Brookline, Mass will be followed by a …read more!