J.K. Rowling has taken to Pottermore to release new content about the Dursleys in celebration of Dudley’s 35th birthday today. This was in line with the reveal of new content in Deathly Hallows chapters on the interactive reading website. Time reports: ‘Rowling gave insight into the backstory of Vernon and Petunia, including the origin of their names, both …read more!

In celebration with Harry Potter week in Orlando’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Pottermore announced a contest to earn 1 million house points for “the house that celebrates its pride the most vociferously” last week. Today Pottermore outlined the rules of the contest that will be this Friday. The rules, as can be seen on Pottermore …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!

This month our contest is challenging you to share your favorite Wizarding Holiday story. To enter the contest write a 750 word (or less) story that answers this question: what holiday stories and beloved characters do wizard children grow up loving and asking to hear over and over again? Because of the holiday season the …read more!

We’re pleased to announce the winners of our September contest, which was to write an entry as a King’s Cross station guard. First place went to Winnie Weasley! Second place went to ZonkoLtd, third place to KATANDCON, and our honorable mentions are Chris B. and H. T. You can see all our winning entries here. …read more!

Our contest for the month of October is inspired by approaching chill in the air that can only mean a frightful Halloween is approaching. We’d like to take a closer look at some character fears and their origins. Your task is to exercise your reporter skills by interviewing any character from the Harry Potter Series, …read more!

For this month’s contest we’re asking you to write a journal entry as a King’s Cross guard beginning with the line, “Strange things are happening at King’s Cross Station…” Naturally, the journal entry is dated September 1st. When writing the entry be sure to mention any strange occurrences, people, or creatures spotted on that day …read more!

A thousand apologies for the delay, but the July 31st issue of The Quibbler is online and features news on an all Animagi event and of a troll attack at the San Diego Comic-Con.You can read The Quibbler here or as a zip file here. Peruse the Quibbler’s archives here.