The voters of the Teen Choice Awards have voted Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix the Choice Summer Movie (Drama/Action/Adventure). Congrats all!

Everyone’s favorite Luna, the actress Evanna Lynch, who makes her own radish earrings and keeps everyone on set on their Harry Potter toes, turns 16 years old today! Everyone here at Leaky wishes this beautifully sweet girl the happiest of days, and that the 16th year is as full of as much wonder and adventure …read more!

Today is Nick Rhein’s birthday – if you don’t know our senior staffer NickR, you don’t know the guy who keeps well over 65,000 members happy on the LeakyLounge, organizes hundreds of staff members and makes more technological adjustments and improvements to the forum than we thought were even possible. Without him, this site would …read more!

Our live Leaky Mug podcast (a joint show produced between MuggleCast and PotterCast) from Prophecy 2007 is now available! Join us for over an hour of Deathly Hallows discussion, pajama contests, and much more! To download, subscribe to the Leaky Mug feed available right here in iTunes. If you can’t subscribe, here is a direct …read more!

Today we celebrate the birthdays of two of our favorite fictional and non-fictional people: Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling. If we tried to explain how much they’ve meant to us all here this year, we’d fail. So, as has been tradition here on Leaky, we bring some celebratory artwork instead. This year our dear talented …read more!

J.K. Rowling has just answered a whole onslaught of post-DH question in a Web chat on Bloomsbury.com. We have reordered the questions so that it reads top-down; answers are here about the characters’ future lives, the state of the wizarding world, the other two title potentials for Deathly Hallows, and much, much, more. More than …read more!

Our senior programmer Alex Robbin has turned 17 today – and he spent last night putting up our redesign while we were screaming at him to take a break. Seriously. Go out tonight, Alex. In all seriousness, it’s been awesome watching this whiz kid turn into the awesome programmer he is today. Happy day, special …read more!

It’s Deathly Hallows reaction time on PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast, which means we’re having a call-OUT show at 8 p.m. EST. If you would like us to call you to talk about Deathly Hallows, send us a message at [email protected] with your Skype name or phone number! Less than four hours until the show, …read more!

Fair, patient Leaky people: We will have a bit of dust and debris around here in the next few days, as we push through a long-owed redesign and shift our content. We have a whole new system running the site, a new/cleaner design showing it off, and have ditched a lot of the elements that …read more!

As many of you have noted, you can currently submit questions to J.K. Rowling for a live Web chat the author will be doing on Monday. This morning, Jo and Bloomsbury invited Leaky to ask the first question, an awesome and intimidating honor, as most of the staff here has more questions for her now …read more!