Our second PotterCast Holiday FilkCast is here as a subscriber special, so get your iTunes up and running: Track Listing: Track Listing: -Harry Medley: Oh, Harry James; Harry the Redfaced Teenager; Oh Come, All Ye Faithful (Loyal to the Albus); Harry’s Nightmares; Voldemort’s on the Outside -John Noe the Tech Man -I Want a Brand …read more!

UnderGroundOnline is reporting that Elizabeth Hurley has been offered the part of Bellatrix Lestrange in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. We have reported this rumor a few times in the past year, and also debunked the rumor on Warner Brothers’ authority. We recommend that this rumor be taken with a shaker or …read more!

Here we are with week’s Cauldron Shop, where you can now sign up for a wish list: First off, a big sale: 80% off the full-sized Dobby figurine – it was $600.00 (yowza!) and is now $99.99, for a limited time. A load of limited edition giclee (high-definition) prints of art by Mary GrandPre: The …read more!

J.K. Rowling’s July 2005 complaint to the Press Complaints Commission against the Daily Mirror has been upheld. The PCC agreed that JKR’s privacy had been breached by an article in The Mirror that featured a photograph of the author’s London home. More information may be found here. Thanks to all who sent this in!

Happy Birthday to you! You make the girls coo You’ve played lots of villains Now Lord Voldemort too! Ralph Fiennes turns 43 today. Cheers, Ralph!

We’ve told you about the phenomenal sales of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Well, those numbers are climbing even higher! The Sofia News Agancy reports that nearly 300,000 copies of the six Harry Potter novels have sold in Bulgaria so far. In addition, HBP goes on sale in Israel tomorrow. Haaretz.com reports that the …read more!

USA Today has a new interview with Ralph Fiennes, in which he discusses staying under the tabloid radar, participating in a United Nations food drop, and playing Lord Voldemort. Besides talking about the way the character looks in Goblet of Fire, Mr. Fiennes confirms that he “will be doing the fifth Potter movie in the …read more!

PotterCast #18 – the much-anticipated, much-appreciated, muchly-syncopated special Holiday Filkcast Edition is up and available for download! You all have been sending us your song parodies for two weeks, and they’re awesome – and the episode includes some surprises, too. 🙂 Track Listing: The PotterCast Song – Guru of Sloth The Christmas Filk Song – …read more!

Hey all; a lot of you noticed that we experienced some down time last night. There’s a lot going on backstage at Leaky right now, so we appreciate your patience. Not only did we upgrade our content management system, but we are about to install our third server, named Snuffles! The slow Leaky days are …read more!

Entertianment Weekly magazine’s “Best of 2005” poll has closed. The results will be published in EW’s end of year issue, but are now available online. Harry has trounced the competition in two categories! Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was voted Best New Novel of the Year with a whopping 80% of the 52,298 votes …read more!