There is a treat online this morning, for national commercial for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park set to air during the Super Bowl XLIV game has made its way online and can be watched via WalletPop.com. (Update: The video is now in our video galleries here.) As readers will recall, Universal Orlando …read more!

Yesterday, the Crafty Witches launched a brand new Craft-Along, this time inviting you to join them as they finish crafting all the WIPs (works in progress) or UFOs (unfinished objects) they have lying around. Dust off your unfinished Harry Potter-related craft projects, finish them and show them off on the Craft-Along thread at the Leaky …read more!

Our Crafty Witches and Wizard have chosen crafter hermione_jean_7 as February’s Featured Crafter of the Month. Hermione_jean_7 was nominated for her skills in quilting, knit and crochet. Some examples of her fine work include a Harry Potter quilt and a Gryffindor messenger bag. A short interview with hermione_jean_7 will be available on the Crafty Witches …read more!

As a followup to our story below, Universal Orlando Resort has this morning issued a press release regarding the launch of a national advertising campaign for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter Theme Park during the first half of the upcoming Super Bowl XLIV football game. Additionally, Universal has released the first official high res …read more!

Additional details from the recent reveal of new information about the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park have come online via two new reports via MTV. First, the subject of the towering Hogwarts Castle is discussed here by Thierry Coup,VP of Creative Development at Universal, who relates that “I can tell you when you …read more!

The New York Times Media Decoder has an article online which relates plans by Universal Orlando to include the Wizarding World of Harry Potter Theme Park as part of a commercial to air during the upcoming Super Bowl game. Noting that the spot is set to broadcast during the first half of the game, the …read more!

Today we bring you a brand new issue of The Quibbler, The Leaky Cauldron’s monthly publication for “news that no-one else will publish.” In this issue you will find articles on the remarkable discovery of a common herb cure for Dragon Pox, baffled Muggles on New Year’s Eve, as well as Aberforth’s page three girls …read more!

As construction on the massive Hogwarts Castle structure at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter Theme Park nears completion, Universal Orlando has released a beautiful high res image of the castle. Available to view right here, the image shows the castle’s spiraling towers, turrets, and impressive detail of the exterior. Universal notes: The magical transformation …read more!

The Lily and Stag Inn, host of the Harry Potter Reading Groups at the Leaky Lounge, invite you to join them in their discussion of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The Lily and Stag are collapsing the walls between their rooms, allowing you to move between the private reading groups and back again as …read more!

Middleton Library is opening an exhibit… “It’s a very different twist on Harry Potter since people are mostly looking at it as a literary phenomenon rather than other aspects of it,” Chalaron said. “I don’t think they necessarily stop to think about the science.”