Happy Birthday to the boy young man who plays our favorite boy wizard hero, Dan Radcliffe, who turns 17 today. May it be a great one, Dan!

Thanks to readers Katie and others, we have our first batch of pics up from our official Harry Potter discussion tour, in which Cheryl Klein (editor at Arthur A. Levine Books, American publishers of Harry Potter), Emerson Spartz (of MuggleNet.com) and I visit bookstores in three cities to discuss the books with you all and …read more!

Today is the 17th birthday of my favorite evil Slytherin, Jamie Waylett (aka Vincent Crabbe). Jamie, we hope you have an awesome one, and we can’t wait to see what horribly embarrassing thing happens to Crabbe in Order of the Phoenix! 🙂

Hey everyone: as the “captain of Beauxbatons” at the Dissendium.com TriWizard tournament, it’s my happy duty to report to you that the second and third tasks in the tournament are now open to participate; if you follow the following link to get to it, your school will receive 50 house points: click here! The tournament …read more!

A lot of you have been emailing asking when Cheryl Klein of Scholastic, and Emerson Spartz of MuggleNet and I will be in which cities talking about the books. The schedule is as follows (and is now in a sidebar link on Leaky). We hope you come out! July 20, 7 p.m. Naperville, IL Anderson’s …read more!

Chamber of Chat, Leaky’s graphic chat experience (MMRPG, as some call it), has been given a complete overhaul; check it out at this link; besides the new design, there’s a news and announcements system as well as downloadable wallpapers for your computer. The system has been moved to its own dedicated server, and is faster …read more!

PotterCast 48, featuring director M. Night Shyamalan, is now up and we have the easiest way for you to listen yet: Just look on the right side of this page (—>) and hit the “Play” button. (Also available: iTunes and direct download.) Remember to vote for PotterCast at Podcast Alley if you haven’t. Now, in …read more!

Madam Poppy Pomfrey is listed as one of the authors of a study recently published in Annals – Academy of Medicine Singapore. This is a real article, published in the journal’s “free papers” issue. The article’s title and abstract read: Interesting In- and Outpatient Attendances at Hogwarts Infirmary and St Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies …read more!

A year ago: We were gorging on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, swallowing it as fast as our eyes could scan lines and our hands could turn pages. In my case, I was in a small hotel in Edinburgh, trying to focus on reading instead of having intermittent attacks of joy that in roughly …read more!

PotterCast will soon welcome back its guest of a year ago, Matt Lewis (aka Neville Longbottom), for a long chat about the changes of the past year, Order of the Phoenix and more; and we want you to talk to him too. We’ll be talking to Matt this Tuesday, and want to open the lines …read more!