Hey Frisco – just kidding! We know not to call you that. We’ll just call you San Fran instead. Just kidding again. Anyway, the PotterCast Tour hits San Francisco (“the city,” eh? City of snakes? No? OK) later today – 5 p.m. Pacific time – at the Borders in Stonestown – 233 Winston Drive, San …read more!

The Australian is reporting, a very serious computer worm (a self-replicating computer program) is being spread to computers via what people think is a word document file containing the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book stored on a flash drive, or similar medium. The W32/Hairy-A worm is spread to Windows users primarily through USB …read more!

As we reported last week, the Australian publishers of the Harry Potter series Allen and Unwin, had opened their ‘J. K. Rowling and the Midnight Signing’ contest for Australian and New Zealand fans to enter. The competition has now closed and the winners have been announced. The four winners, three from Austrialia and one from …read more!

Time magazine has a new in- depth feature on the efforts used by the team at US Harry Potter publishers Scholastic, as they have gone about preparing for the release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” Detailing the steps the company went through, including a representative traveling to the UK to pick up the …read more!

PotterCast 96 comes to you live from Phoenix, Arizona, or more accurately Chandler, AZ, which is the next stop on our summer tour for PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast! To listen, just hit the “Play” button on the right side of the page (—>), or use iTunes, or direct download. Live from Phoenix, AZ: – …read more!

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix had its world premiere in Tokyo earlier today and a number of reports have been released online detailing the massive event. First, the BBC has a new report online from the red carpet along with a short video which shows Dan greeting the hundreds of fans, many …read more!

MTV News continues its coverage of the latest Harry Potter film and final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, with a round table discussion with a panel of Harry Potter experts to discuss what the ending of J. K. Rowling’s series could be. The panel, which features our own Melissa Anelli, as well as …read more!

The Times newspaper in the UK has published what they are calling the first review of the “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” film. Giving it 3 out of five stars, the review was based after seeing the premiere in Tokyo, Japan. The article is favorable towards the performances by Imelda Staunton as …read more!

Today, UK Harry Potter publishers Bloomsbury announced that export orders for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows “were up 17% on book number six.” The BBC reports that the company will also release a special box set edition of the novels containing all seven of the books on October 1, 2007. Reuters also reports this, …read more!

Ok all you MySpace layout creators and other clever creative wizard types, have we got a challenge for you! We are proud to announce our newest contest to design a skin or layout for our newly launched official Leaky Cauldron MySpace page. The winner will be the design that is used on our page (which …read more!