As already noted in the Wall Street Journal this morning, the HP Alliance and wizard rock bands are performing a “Wrock 4 Equality” rally over the next two weekends. You can catch special coverage on the Internet via our joint Leaky/HPA channel at livestream.com/pottercast.At 3pm this Sunday, October 18, you can join Evanna Lynch (Luna …read more!

This month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Harry Potter fans are no strangers to this terrible disease. Just this week Dame Maggie Smith, the actress who plays Minerva McGonagall, discussed how her life has been affected: “It takes the wind out of your sails,” she said, land noted her treatment had made her feel …read more!

It’s #followfriday on Leaky! Or as many readers have called it: the best #followfriday ever! Reader Cassandra wrote in to tell us that J.K. Rowling apparently has a Twitter account here, at username @jk_rowling. While Twitter calls it a verified account, we checked, just to be sure, and have received confirmation: it is Jo. She …read more!

The new book SPEECH-LESS: Tales of a White House Survivor, a behind-the-scenes account of life in the George W. Bush presidential administration (published by Crown Books), has an interesting nugget for Harry Potter fans, as a reader has pointed out: according to the book’s author, Matthew Latimer, J.K. Rowling’s name was once in consideration for …read more!

At today’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter event in Orlando, Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy), who was on hand to help with the announcements, confirmed the attraction will be opening in Spring 2010 – and more, as this post gets updated. UPDATE: Videos are now available for download here in our galleries:Entire Special Webcast with Tom …read more!

Tomorrow President Barack Obama will address the nation as it goes back to school; the pre-released text of his speech (which you can read here) includes remarks on the beginnings of Harry Potter as proof that not all great ideas or ventures are accepted as such to start: style=”margin: 0in 0in 10pt;”> But the truth …read more!

It’s a special day – when we get to celebrate that we at Leaky have with us one John Noe, whose antics never fail to amuse. John Dawlish Noe, who is one of the few people in the world who can say they have a Harry Potter character named in their honor, has brought so …read more!

One Day in the Life of Daniel Radcliffe, the new book by photographic artist Tim Hailand, may now be pre-ordered at the book’s Web site, onedayinthelifeof.org. The book is $29.95 and consists of 50 black and white and color images taken of Daniel Radcliffe taken while performing in his first Broadway show, Equus. The footnotes on …read more!

In the next PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast, we will be introducing a new segment and several new voices to the show. The Potter Pundits will be providing a scholarly, yet entertaining, look at the themes and symbolism in Harry Potter. We’re excited to share it with you! Please join us in welcoming them! Travis …read more!

Today is a special day: our forum admin Nick Rhein’s 25th birthday! Please everyone join us in wishing him the happiest birthday someone who spends all day wrangling the content and bugs that more than 80,000 users can heap onto a site. We love you Nick – have a great day!