The International Quidditch Association has been accepted as a candidate for the Pepsi Refresh Project. The organization is eligible to win a $25,000 grant to start youth Quidditch programs in elementary and middle schools – but they need your help to win! Fans are encouraged to vote every day for the IQA at RefreshEverything.com/Quidditch. If …read more!

Our book clubs at the Leaky Lounge have picked some brand new books to read and discuss this May. The Harry Potter Book Club is reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Brush up on the last book in the series before the film comes out here at the Leaky Lounge. Our non-Harry Potter book …read more!

Oshkosh Public Museum in Wisconsin, USA is to put on MuggleFest, “a month-long Harry Potter celebration”, from the 1st to the 31st of July this year. A press release issued by the museum explains: As part of the festival, visitors will be able to explore the recreated world of Harry Potter and collect house points, …read more!

Leaky is excited to launch a new monthly giveaway with help from our friends over at Wizard Wood Wands, suppliers of the prizes for our traditional monthly contests. Our Monthly Wand Giveaway will select a randomly chosen entrant each month to receive a pre-crafted wand as part of this giveaway. Anyone may enter, including Leaky …read more!

Catch the last few hours of the Northeast Quidditch Regionals, brought to you by the International Quidditch Association from Hoftstra University in Hempstead, NY on Long Island. Watch right here on UStream. The IQA Northeastern Regionals Empire Classic ends at 7.30pm EST.

Something is going on here at Leaky. For the past year we have had so many staff pregnancies and new little witches and wizards that the young women on staff have been warned to stay away from the drinking water. Thankfully, however, every promised little one has been brought to us safely; we hope you’ll …read more!

For the month of April, Jo’s Book Nook, our non-Harry Potter book club, is reading Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. The book is a biographical work about Chris McCandless, a young man who in 1992 set off to explore Alaska and whose emaciated body was found four months later. What led him to abandon …read more!

There are only 100 days left until LeakyCon 2011, our Harry Potter fan conference taking place July 13-17 at Universal Orlando in Florida! Our staff has been working tirelessly to make this the Harry Potter event of the year, and has a number of updates to share with you today. I’m going to LeakyCon 2011, …read more!

Join the discussion of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire at the Leaky Lounge‘s Lily and Stag Inn reading groups. Once you’ve been sorted into a reading group, you will be reading the fourth Harry Potter book in a close-knit environment. The rooms are private from each other, but there is access to a …read more!

Hmm… seems that ‘Dung and his friend Chalky have taken over management of The Quibbler. It has a new name–The Daily Dung Heap–and a brand new masthead! The new editors write that the Dung Heap will be “bringin’ ya the latest fananshul news fer all wizardin’ investurs an’ bisnessmens”. You can get your mitts on …read more!