Leaky’s Crafty Witches and Wizards have a new feature to bring you today, their Featured Harry Potter Crafter of the Month. Potter crafter Droxy is the first recipient of this title, for her many and varied contributions to the Harry Potter corner of the crafting world. Her work, which can be seen right here, ranges …read more!

As a new month is about to start, the Harry Potter Alliance is launching a new “Magical Acts of Kindness” week that runs October 1st through October 7th. The HPA is hoping to encourage fans to show love and appreciation to others around them, perhaps even through anonymous private gestures. They are holding a special …read more!

The webcast has begun with new details on the upcoming Wizarding World of Harry Potter starting to emerge. Our own Melissa will have much more very soon, but in the meantime via Twitter account of Jason Garcia from Orlando Sentinel we have so far: “One of Harry Potter attractions will be Ollivander’s where wand chooses …read more!

Today is the day when Universal Orlando is set to unveil new details about the upcoming Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park attraction. TLC’s own Melissa Anelli is down in Florida today for a special webcast and other announcements that are taking place this morning, and will bring us a very detailed report in …read more!

At today’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter event in Orlando, Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy), who was on hand to help with the announcements, confirmed the attraction will be opening in Spring 2010 – and more, as this post gets updated. UPDATE: Videos are now available for download here in our galleries:Entire Special Webcast with Tom …read more!

Attention Dumbledore’s Army! The Harry Potter Alliance will be holding another live meeting tonight via Ustream starting very shortly at 6:00pm (Eastern). In the meeting, fans will hear more about the new Magical Acts of Kindness campaign, as well as more on their approach to raising awareness in a manner that incorporates the messages of …read more!

As a quick follow below to all the activity in developing the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, there is word today regarding special type light fixtures to be used at the new theme park. The County Times reports that The Limehouse Lamp Company in England is making “100 mainly oil lamp-style replica” lights for “a …read more!

Thanks as always to BrianDorf who emailed us with another photo and video update of the ever ongoing construction for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park in Orlando, Florida. Of interest are close up photos of off-site construction, here, here and here of the towers, walls and spires that will be placed on …read more!

Jo’s Book Nook, our very own non-Harry Potter book club housed on the Leaky Lounge, has opened a new reading for the month of September. This time around, the Nook will be reading and discussing the first three novels in The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series by author Michael Scott: The Alchemyst, The …read more!

There is some good news today regarding the upcoming Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park attraction currently under construction in Florida. The Orlando Sentinel reports that in a few weeks on September 15th, fans will learn much more on the widely anticipated new Harry Potter attraction as the paper says: “The resort has begun …read more!