Happy Mother’s Day! It might as well be called Harry Potter Day, because as we learned in Deathly Hallows, Mother’s Day gets to the very core of what the series was all about. Say something nice to your mom today, show her all the great motherly moments in Harry Potter or simply re-enact Molly Weasley’s …read more!

Today we celebrated our 150th Harry Potter podcast, PotterCast, and instead of a big celebratory show we decided on a celebratory post. It takes a village of house-elves to make this show go, and the ones who you rarely, if ever, hear on the show are who we celebrate today. (Thanks to Frankie “Frak” Franco …read more!

Tonight, the forums for LeakyCon 2009 are open and humming! Get over there to ask the organizers questions and connect with fellow attendees; the conference is just a year away! If you have a Leaky Login (that is, an account anywhere on Leaky, including our forums), then you can comment at the LeakyCon forums. More …read more!

Next week, for the first time in almost nine and a half years, Harry Potter will not appear on the New York Times bestseller list.. The New York Times‘s article reminds readers that it first appeared on December 27, 1998, and that after a year and a half with the books clogging the top spots, …read more!

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As many of you know, today was the first day of the trial in the JKR/WB vs. RDR Books case, in which JKR and WB are attempting to block publication of a print version of of the A-Z listing of the online Harry Potter Lexicon. There have been several articles about it: NYT: JK Rowling …read more!

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, along with other leading children’s book authors including Judy Blume, R.L. Stine, Cornelia Funke and Louis Sachar, today published an open letter “demanding the world wake up to childhood under attack in Darfur.” The letter comes on the eve of Global Day for Darfur, marking the fifth anniversary of the …read more!

We’ve got a lot of Nicks on staff here but only one of them speaks Supery Crazy Advanced Programmerese, and is responsible for custom-creating our entire system and keeps it running when it hits hiccups. And today’s his birthday! So please join us in wishing our Nick Poulden the happiest of 24th birthdays. Just don’t …read more!

All right, that’s enough – the bogus predictions and news tips were one thing but the drinking on the job just puts her over the edge. We’ve sadly told Sybill she can no longer post news here, but we have escorted her safely back to Hogwarts, where we hear has taken up decoupage and cribbage. …read more!

We’ve just had word from Dan Radcliffe’s publicist that there’s been a change of plans for the New York run of “Equus,” slated to begin this September at the Shubert Theater in NYC. The last fifteen minutes of the play usually includes a pivotal scene by Radcliffe, in which his young troubled character reenacts the …read more!