Michael Gambon (Dumbledore) will take part in the Royal Court’s season of rehearsed readings, 50 Readings, 50 Writers, 50 Years. Mr. Gambon will appear on Wednesday, March 22 in Cary Churchill’s A Number. The series of staged readings at the Jerwood Upstairs Theatre in London, which began in January, features some of the most famous …read more!

The calendar on Jo’s website has been updated to honor the birthday of Remus Lupin, March 10. Happy Birthday, Professor Lupin! Oooowwwooooooooo!

Five million copies of the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire DVD were sold in North America on its first day of release (Tuesday, March 7), breaking the record for first-day DVD sales. Warner Bros. reports that the DVD is on its way to becoming the best-selling DVD of the Harry Potter series so …read more!

Happy Tuesday! The 29th PotterCast is now up and ready for download. In this show: -Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner Stuart Craig, production designer of the Harry Potter films, on the kind of nitty-gritty detail only we fans care about -Coming this week: The first-ever Harry Potter Fan DVD Commentary, with the PotterCasters – a …read more!

Dame Maggie Smith (Professor McGonagall) and Julie Walters (Mrs. Weasley) are among the cast of “Becoming Jane,” a film about Jane Austen’s romance with Irish lawyer Tom Lefroy. Their respective roles have not yet been announced. The film also stars Anne Hathaway (of “The Princess Diaries” and “Brokeback Mountain”) as the British author, and is …read more!

We are so very proud to announce the unveiling of Scribbulus, Leaky’s home for Harry Potter essays and opinion pieces. This is probably the biggest addition we’ve had to Leaky since the redesign, and we’re so excited to finally be able to open it to you. This is something that has taken months, and has …read more!

UPDATE: We’ve confirmed that the Times‘s use of the words the “next” Harry Potter book are incorrect. Jo is not yet sure which book she will be reading, but it will NOT BE BOOK SEVEN. She won’t read from that until it’s finished and published. This was an unfortunate misprint. The Sunday Times reports today …read more!

Our partners at the Harry Potter Lexicon have a great new feature: Knight Bus Tours. These guided tours will zoom you through the Lexicon so you can discover things you never knew about Harry Potter; it will include commentary from Lexicon staffers and links to interesting pieces of Potter arcania and more. Right now there …read more!

Mary, our new Galleries Image Person (her title is a work in progress) has uploaded about 20 hi-res character portriaits from the Goblet of Fire studio shoot; these portraits include new ones of Karkaroff, Amos Diggory, Harry, Cho Chang, Krum, Myrtle, Cedric, Fleur, and Ron. They’ve been around but never in hi-res before, so see …read more!

Sorry we’re a little late on this, but we wanted to give it its proper due: The new Wizard of the Month on JKRowling.com is none other than Daisy Dodderidge, a happily plump little woman who was the Leaky Cauldron’s first landlady. Heh – not much has changed, folks! 😉