Hey all – got some updates for you Beauxbatons over at the TriWizard Tournament (if you’re not a Beauxbaton, you’re not on Leaky’s team! Sorry, guys). Lots of info below, but first: Leaky is also announcing a contest related to this event: Once the tournament begins properly, the students to raise the most points for …read more!

Our 30th (30th! Sheesh!) PotterCast is now up and ready for download. In this show: -The last from Stuart Craig for awhile! -Spring-breaking Spartzes and one of their giiiiiiiiiiiiiirlfriieeeeeeeeends (yeah, we said it) crash the party as John’s barbecuing and singing laugh track -Anna Noe, Papa Noe, Ms. Sara and Chester join the party -Cold-weather-bound …read more!

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been nominated for a 2006 Audie award, in the category, “Children’s Titles for Ages 8+.” The Audies are the only awards in the U.S devoted exclusively to audiobooks and spoken word entertainment. The winners will be announced on May 19 at a gala at the National Press Club …read more!

Today is the seventeenth birthday of actor Harry Melling (Dudley Dursley). Many happy returns of the day to Harry!

She’s everyone’s favorite Hufflepuff, the lovable S.Q.U.E.E.ster who keeps this site updated to the very last minute, and PotterCast’s news breaking to the fullest. We love our beautiful Q-sie, who brings such light, warmth, passion, excitement and joy to everything she does, and so we hope you’ll join us today in wishing her the happiest …read more!

Though J.K. Rowling said to Katie Couric this July that she is no such thing, magazine Forbes has again place Jo Rowling on its list of the World’s Richest People, as a billionaire (which is more likely to be true in dollars than pounds). The short article says that 60 million Harry Potter books sold …read more!

After Sean Biggerstaff’s short film, Cashback was nominated for an Academy Award, the makers have decided to expand the film into a full-length feature. Writer-director Sean-Ellis and producer Lene Bausager will turn the film from a 19-minute “supermarket dramedy” to a full-length film, using the entire ensemble cast, including former Harry Potter actor Sean Biggerstaff. …read more!

March 12 is the fifth anniversary of the publishing of the Canadian versions of Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them; to celebrate, The Globe and Mail will publish an ad today noting that to date, $1.7 million have been raised for Comic Relief through these books, to benefit disadvantaged …read more!

The world premiere of Mirror, Mirror, a classical wind ensemble composition will be held at the University of Connecticut on Saturday, March 19. The piece, written by composer Stacy Garrop, winner of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Music Composition Prize, was inspired by three stories about mirrors and mirror images: “Mirror, Mirror involves two identical …read more!

We’re happy to bring you the first-ever Harry Potter fan DVD audio commentary track. Now that you (in the US anyway, we know) have your DVDs, we hope this track will provide you with some entertianment and even information (in the form of tidbits from TLC’s set visits) on Harry Potter and the Goblet of …read more!