Like a book by a new crime writer named Robert Galbraith? Well, JK! It was Rowling!Yep: J.K. Rowling has been publishing crime fiction under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. This is not a drill, guys: there is a new book written by J.K. Rowling available right now. You can have it on an e-reader, even, in …read more!

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Hello all! The site will be going down at about 10 pm EST tonight for some maintenance and reorganization. It should only be a few hours, so if you see a site in our network not responding for a little while, don’t worry! We’ll be back. 🙂Happy Mother’s Day!Update! We’ll be going down a bit …read more!

Hey all! Leaky will be going down for a little bit tomorrow evening to do some maintenance and reorganization. It will start at 10pm EST and shouldn’t take more than a few hours. All the Leaky sections (but not LeakyNews, LeakyCon or the galleries) will be affected. We hope to make it as short as …read more!

LeakyCon is coming to Portland and London this year, and there are a bunch of announcements afoot: today, with 100 days to London, several guests were confirmed for the first ever Leaky in Europe, including: Alfie Enoch (Dean)Chris Rankin (Percy)Author Elizabeth Wein (Code Name Verity) MinaLima (Graphic artists for the Potter films)Ryan Turner (Young Hugo)Ellie …read more!

Richard Griffiths, well known on screen and stage but perhaps best known to many of us as Harry Potter’s Uncle Vernon Dursley, has died at age 65 from complications after heart surgery. According to The Guardian, tributes have already begun pouring in from his co-stars, including Daniel Radcliffe: “In August 2000, before official production had …read more!

The Warner Bros. Studio Tour at Leavesden has been a little mischievous today, teasing bits of an announcement over fan sites on the Web. Here’s the bit of it we’ve got for you at Leaky: All will be revealed Monday! Use #OneYearOn to discuss it on Twitter; make sure you’re following us @leaky for all …read more!

Scholastic revealed today the first of seven new covers for the Harry Potter novels, marking the first time their versions have not featured artwork by series originator Mary GrandPre. The new artist is best selling graphic novelist Kazu Kibuishi (see HI-RES here): According to the release, each new cover will depict a distinctive and memorable …read more!

Happy Monday! Some intriguing news today: a source has told us that there’s some sort of special “super fan” event being cooked up at Leavesden Studios in London this summer. It would be an exclusive off-hours event in August. That’s all we have for the moment; it’s unconfirmed by the studios thus far. We’ll keep …read more!