A big Brit announcement and love all around are in this week’s PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast, which is now available. listen, just hit the “Play” button on the right side of the page (—>), or use iTunes, or direct download. Notes and more info: -PotterCast will be having a live podcast in London on …read more!

Melanie Reid at The Herald has written one of those familiar, extreme-minority opinion pieces calling Harry Potter trash and reveling in its eventual end. Of course, we’d like to respond to the traditional mistruths in these kinds of articles, which this one has in spades. For one, she cites Harold Bloom, the literary critic, and …read more!

Leaky’s countdown for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and our joint Deathly Hallows and Order of the Phoenix countdown are now available for download as Mac OS X widgets; Yahoo! versions are coming soon. Our book countdown has also been honored as today’s Featured Widget on Apple.com! Chris Chang, our awesome widget maker, converted …read more!

It’s Deathly Hallows discussion galore – plus an announcement of a British variety – in this week’s PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast, which is now available. listen, just hit the “Play” button on the right side of the page (—>), or use iTunes, or direct download. Notes and more info: The big news is out: …read more!

In a week that’s seen the announcement of a release date for the last Harry Potter, it’s going to take a lot to get us excited. So, we’re not. We’re ecstatic to bring you our latest project, one we’ve been working on for more than eight months. Presenting…the Leaky Fan Art Galleries! This is a …read more!

We’ve got a brand-new love-themed Valentine’s Day Contest for you – about what an HP character of your choice might smell upon encountering the Amortentia potion. Full instructions and rules are here; essays have a limit of 150 words, a PG-13 maximum rating, and a deadline of Feb. 15. The winners of our previous competition, …read more!

We waited a bit to announce that new book countdown you see on the right side of the page, because we were working on something better: With Harry Potter book and film so close together this year, we’ve made a combined countdown for your Web page, MySpaces, etc. Now you can choose: Book and film, …read more!

J.K.Rowling.com has been updated to announce that the last Harry Potter Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be released on JULY 21, 2007. Pre-order at Amazon or B&N. (digg this) (We’ve released a special PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast for the occasion: Get it on iTunes, or direct download. We also now have a …read more!

(Looking for the pics of Dan in Equus? Right here . Meanwhile…) Our 74th PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast is up. To listen, just hit the “Play” button on the right side of the page (—>), or use iTunes, or direct download. Also: -This week’s canon conundrums: What are Snape’s Boggart and Patronus? -Interview with …read more!

Disney Adventures has a new issue out featuring a labeled picture of Dumbeldore’s Army as well as a new interview with Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood). See the scan here, thanks to reader TK. The interview reads: Did you feel nervous about auditioning? I really wanted to go, because if I didn’t I never would have …read more!