Harry Potter actor panels at LeakyCon offered insights into the characters they portrayed, where the actors are now, and also their favorite memories from filming. LeakyCon brought together a few of Hogwarts’ finest for the ‘Acting As a Young Wizard’ panel, and some of the less likable characters for the Antagonists panel, and our correspondent, Kathy …read more!

This week in Wizarding World news, Pottermore and Entertainment Weekly offered us our first look at the baby Nifflers in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Entertainment Weekly released a photo of Newt, Theseus and Leta, Natalie Dormer was announced as the ‘A History of Magic’ exhibition companion audiobook reader and Warner Bros Studio Tour announced …read more!

This week has certainly been one of the most magical of the year since fans were able to celebrate the birthdays of the author responsible for the Wizarding World as well as the boy wizard she created. To mark the occasions, we conjured a spellbindingly epic timeline of events from 1996 to the present which tapped …read more!

Big news for those Potterheads lucky enough to be heading to Dallas, Texas next month for LeakyCon. Dan Fogler, Fantastic Beasts resident No-Maj Jacob Kowalski, will be joining an already Grawp-sized line up at the 9th annual celebration of the Boy Who Lived. Fogler, who’s just off a spellbinding San Diego Comic Con appearance with the …read more!

LeakyCon 2018 is just weeks away and another special guest has been added to the already magical lineup! Christian Coulson, best known to Harry Potter fans as Tom Riddle from Chamber of Secrets, will join six other former Hogwarts students, a Durmstrang Quidditch captain, and a spellbinding group of performers in Dallas, Texas August 10-12, 2018. We’ve …read more!

A Harry Potter convention is hoping to assemble a record-setting number of Potters this weekend. DraigCon, an independent Harry Potter festival taking place July 21-22 at The Printworks in Manchester, England, is hoping to break the World Record for number of people dressed as Harry Potter. The convention will kick-off on Friday, July 20, at …read more!

This week, amongst a brand new production of Cursed Child being announced for San Francisco in 2019, we’ve also received updates from LEGO and more, news that Butterbeer ice cream is now being sold at Universal Studios Hollywood, MinaLima’s illustrated edition of The Secret Garden release date, and CinceConcerts announcing their performance of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire …read more!

From celebrating new records for Cursed Child and more LeakyCon special guest announcements, and announcing the release of a new MinaLima-designed Fantastic Beasts book and theorising about the construction of a new ride at Universal Studios Orlando, this week has seen news emerge from all areas of the wizarding world. In addition to franchise and fan news, Chris Rankin donned …read more!

Chris Rankin (Harry Potter‘s Percy Weasley) has previously opened up on his experience with being an adoptive child, and his personal thoughts on foster families and adoption via his personal blog (reported by Leaky here). Now, Chris is supporting Transfiguring Adoption’s mission to support foster-adoptive families worldwide – by unveiling their latest Elf Squad Kits! Beginning …read more!

This week in the Potterverse has not only seen us celebrate Teacher Appreciation week (with dedicated Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin Head of House appreciation posts), but we also reported on new additions to Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, voting opened for Broadway.com’s Audience Choice Awards, Scholastic announced their Harry Potter themed Summer Reading Challenge and Warner Bros Studio Tour London …read more!