Sad news today, Potter fans: We’ve just been told that the popular wizard rock band – in fact, the grandwizards of the genre and the band that many current bands claim as inspiration – Harry and the Potters has broken up. The two members will both be releasing solo albums, one from Harry Year Four …read more!

A new report in the Scotsman says that Hogwarts appears on a list of the best schools in Scotland. It ranked 36th online, a place above Loretto, Edinburgh’s £23,000-per-year school. It scored more than three out of five in all categories “from atomsphere to discipline.” The managing director o fthe ranking site, the Independent Schools …read more!

For the past few months, we’ve been thinking a lot about the future of Leaky. We’re mostly a news site, so we usually just think about the past – what happened, how did it, how they did it and why they did it. Say it with us – B-O-R-I-N-G! So, we’ve brought on a new …read more!

We owe quite a few updates tonight, and there is an important announcement following (since the information in this post is vital to that announcement, so make sure to read the whole thing): Update:: Agence France-Presse says JKR will be a witness. Firstly, the April 14 trial in the JKR/WB vs. RDR Books case will …read more!

If you are Christian, it’s the day of Resurrection and chocolate eggs (and the mystery of how they are related); if you’re not, we hope you’re enjoying some of today’s sugarfest anyway. Either way, if you’re bored, pop a marshmallow peep (picture in this post’s icon) into the microwave for 15 seconds and observe what …read more!

Thanks to WB, you can see the most recently release HBP pic in high-resolution here in our galleries! In the picture, Harry seems to be showing Hermione the Half-Blood Prince book – just for fun, write some dialogue to go with it in the comments and we’ll add the best or funniest to this article. …read more!

Our Kristin (with an “in,” thanks) turns humasumacough today and we hope you’ll join us in wishing her a happy one! If you’ve written Leaky at all you’ve probably gotten one of her helpful responses; if you’ve known her a little longer you’ve gotten delightfully pointed commentary; if you’ve known her a little longer than …read more!

Terminus 2008, the Harry Potter conference in Chicago this August, announced today that Harry Potter continuity editor Cheryl Klein and fantasy author Tamora Pierce will be providing keynote addresses at their event. Cheryl Klein, Senior Editor, Arthur A. Levine Books, who has worked on the last three Potter novels (Entertainment Weekly called her a “Potterologist”) …read more!

The Telegraph has reported today that Dame Maggie Smith, known to Potter film fans as Prof. McGonagall, has been diagnosed with breast cancer. She has had a tumor removed and has undergone a course of chemotherapy; the prognosis “looks good,” a friend of hers told the paper. Everyone on staff at, and, we’re sure, reading …read more!

Top o’ the St. Patrick’s Day to you! Today, we wish you luck of the Irish, and the luck of every other nationality for that matter. Italian and Spanish luck are all well and good, but maybe today you’re in the mood for the luck of the Estonians or Slovakians (for the latter, see our …read more!