Jul 31, 2008
Thanks to some major news this morning (see below) we’re a little late on this, but nonetheless, this is our annual Happy Birthday Harry and J.K. Rowling thread, with our traditional Happy Birthday artwork! Some new faces on it this time, thanks to a certain epilogue and a certain Leaky artist name Frak: Click for …read more!
Jul 31, 2008
Can you remember last year how we were all excited and hyped up for the Deathly Hallows release? Amidst all of that excitement, there was also a small pang of longing and a bittersweet feeling because that was the last time we would stand in line for a midnight release for a Harry Potter release. …read more!
Jul 31, 2008
Update: The hi-res version of the USA artwork, with art by Mary Grandpre, is right here in our galleries and the UK cover right here! Today, on J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter’s birthdays, JKR has announced that her children’s charity, Children’s High Level Group, will publish The Tales of Beedle the Bard on December 4, …read more!
Jul 31, 2008
Ah, what a beautiful day. The sun is shining, the butterflies are chasing each other, and I bet the sea is just the right temperature for swimming right now. Soooo¦ why am I sitting here writing this? Well, it’s for my Leaky blog! Which I am so excited to be writing! I hope that this …read more!
Jul 31, 2008
Today, on J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter’s birthdays, JKR has announced that her children’s charity, Children’s High Level Group, will publish The Tales of Beedle the Bard on December 4, in an exclusive deal with Bloomsbury, Scholastic and Amazon. (You can pre-order from Amazon now.) Pre-order now through our Cauldron Shop: collector’s edition, standard edition. …read more!
Jul 31, 2008
The clock is now ticking down to mere hours left until the submission deadline is reached for the August issue of Quibbler and I thought I’d give you an insight into my writing process as, believe it or not, I haven’t finished my article yet. Yes that’s right I’m riding it down to the wire …read more!
Jul 31, 2008
Just stepping into the average Harry potter forum and finding a thread about the Marauders is all the proof you need that we have got extremley firm sterotypes over these for men even though we don’t know an exceptional lot about them. I know this might sound pedantic, but I really think that we obtained …read more!
Jul 31, 2008
Hmm… What can we get from the name “Neville Longbottom”? I thought there’d be more, but no. There’s not much out there. The name “Neville” comes from a surname, and of course can be used as a forename. It means “New Town” in Norman French. “Longbottom” is from Middle English and can be broken down. …read more!
Jul 30, 2008
PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast is coming to you live from Boston, MA, the site of next year’s LeakyCon conference, for an new episode full of talk before the premiere of the “Half-Blood Prince” teaser trailer. As a reminder, tonight’s live PotterCast set for Providence, RI, will feature fresh reaction of the HBP teaser trailer. …read more!
Jul 30, 2008
Presenting the first part of Leaky’s Half-Blood Prince set report! I visited the set back in January and now that the trailer is out can share a bit about it with you: read about the romance in the films, the way the sets are ever-growing and expanding; the new props, paraphernalia and costumes; and cast …read more!