Eddie Redmayne, Fantastic Beasts’ Newt Scamander has taken to social media today on behalf of JK Rowling’s children’s charity Lumos to send a message to fans about their current Crowdrise campaign and corresponding Fantastic contest. As reported by Leaky earlier this month, two of Redmayne’s Fantastic Beasts co-stars, Alison Sudol and Dan Fogler, announced via …read more!

Harry Potter fans know how to make good things happen in the world – we learnt from the best – Dumbledore’s Army, of course. J.K. Rowling’s Lumos recently launched an exciting campaign offering the chance to meet the cast and crew of Fantastic Beasts whilst helping to end the institutionalisation of children across the globe (more on that here). …read more!

September 1, 2017 is the actual date that the epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ends and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child begins. To mark this momentous occasion in the Potterverse the Harry Potter Play will be celebrating by making 400 tickets available at £40 each (£20 per part) next Friday, August 4 …read more!

The 20th anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is almost here and to celebrate Bloomsbury has brought us more exciting news by bringing back Wizarding Wednesdays (as you may recall from last year as we awaited the highly anticipated arrival of Fantastic Beasts)! Every Wednesday from now until August 2nd Bloomsbury will be …read more!

It’s been a huge week for Harry Potter as the 20th anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone draws near. To kick off the month we’re bringing you news about the 20th anniversary house themed editions of Philosopher’s Stone, an exciting announcement for independent bookstores, proof that Harry Potter remains a favorite among readers, and a …read more!

Long before Warwick Davis joined the Harry Potter series as Professor Flitwick and the goblin Griphook, he had a magical connection with the Star Wars universe. It began in 1977 when he fell in love with Star Wars: A New Hope, little knowing that Star Wars would, only a few years later, kick off his professional career and …read more!

As you may remember, The Leaky Cauldron recently hosted a Fantastic Beasts giveaway, and we’re finally bringing you news of the winners! The instructions were to draw (with accompanying description and/or annotations) or write a description of a fantastic beast entrants had “discovered” in their travels as professional Magizoologists. After a lot of deliberation and regretting the …read more!

The second day of A Celebration of Harry Potter was an eventful one, with guests attending a Q&A panel, participating in numerous exciting giveaways and contests, and plenty of magical sights, and secrets, for the O.W.L and N.E.W.T.-level–witch or wizard to find! It ended with a fantastic program, covered by Leaky, featuring a message from the Cursed …read more!

Bloomsbury UK is throwing their annual Harry Potter Book Night on February 2nd, 2017. Every Potter fan knows how important the professors at Hogwarts are, and how much of an influence they have in Harry’s life, so why not celebrate them? “They say that the influence of a good teacher can never be erased so …read more!

Recently Leaky reported on a new species of spider discovered in India that bore a striking resemblance to the Hogwarts Sorting Hat and was appropriately named “Eriovixia gryffindor”. Now researchers at the University of Singapore have found a tiny crab they have dubbed “Harryplax severus”. Yes, both the newly identified genus and species of this …read more!