If you’re in the Riverside, California area, UCR is hosting a mini-conference on Harry Potter tomorrow afternoon. The free conference, set for 12 noon to 5:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14 in UCR’s Humanities 1500, is a joint effort of UCR’s English Department and the Center for Ideas and Society, and topics include attacks on the …read more!

The latest PotterCast is now available at all the regular sources. In this episode: LIVE from Salem – our special Witching Hour themed show! We taped at Finz Seafood Restaurant in Salem, Mass., with editors B.K. and Heidi, Jeff of HPANA and Chris Rankin (Percy Weasley), who attended the convention. And don’t worry, John Noe …read more!

Hey all; the transcript to PotterCast 7 is up, and as you might have noticed, PotterCast #8, our live Salem show, is a bit delayed. Blame bad internet connections in the Florida Keys; John can’t get the thing uploaded right now. It’ll be up as soon as possible! In the meantime I’d like to thank …read more!

WB sent over these high res character posters – enjoy! Harry Hermione Ron Moody

Warner Brothers has recieved reports of a scam perpetuated via email regarding auditions for Half-Blood Prince. Various HP fandomers report getting unsolicited emails that say: Dear applicant, Plot Outline: As Harry Potter begins his 6th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he discovers an old book marked mysteriously “TheHalf-Blood Prince” and begins to …read more!

I’m blogging live from Salem, along with Melissa, BK, Jeff from HPANA and various other Leaky Lounge mods and Quick Quotesers. Chris Rankin is also here with us, and we can’t wait for you to hear about all the excitement when the Podcast goes online later this week! Melissa, Chris and Jeff in Salem at …read more!

A quick remminder to those of you in the area: we’re doing a live PotterCast recording tomorrow at Finz Seafood Restaurant at 76 Wharf Street, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in Salem, Mass., tomorrow. Editor Heidi and I will be joined by Chris Rankin and Jeff of HPANA. You don’t have to be going …read more!

The Leaky Cauldron is proud to present its first of what we hope will become a gallery of widgets. The first one is a countdown for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire designed by John Noe and coded by (don’t pass out, now – this is quite shocking) me. You can get it for …read more!

Many of you have noticed, if you use Roadrunner for your internet, that you were unable to download PotterCast #7. This is because we are technologically cursed, and the week we went back to using LibSyn as a provider is also the week that a battle between companies has resulted in blockages of large portions …read more!

Some of you are already aware, but we’re finally ready to announce that after a short absence because of security issues, Chamber of Chat, our graphic chat room, is back online, revamped and almost completely renovated and running on its own server. In this new version you: Register as a member (you’ll receive login information …read more!