The Harry Potter Alliance will host a livestream tonight at 8:30pm ET, benefitting The Louisville Bail Fund. The livestream will feature Black Girls Create, Jay Justice, Fanatical Fics, The Gayly Prophet, The HPA, Unspoiled! Podcast, The Nonbinaries‘ C. McCarthy, & K. Alexandra. The stream will celebrate Black Girls Create’s birthday in their ongoing House Cup, raising …read more!

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made the prudent decision to postpone the 2020 LeakyCons originally scheduled for summer in Orlando and fall in Denver. The NEW date for LeakyCon Orlando is June 25-27, 2021. The NEW date for LeakyCon Denver is October 29-31, 2021. (Yes, LeakyCon on Halloween, an important date in the Potterverse!) All …read more!

Black Girls Create will host a Harry Potter Trivia fundraiser with CosQuiz Trivia next Friday, June 12, donating all proceeds to Campaign Zero, a policy-based solution organisation dedicated to ending police brutality, and The National Bailout Fund, which provides support for incarcerated protestors. If you want to know more about Black Girls Create, a hub for Black …read more!

Today, Wizarding World Digital announced the ninth chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone will be read by Fantastic Beasts stars Alison Sudol and Dan Fogler. As part of the free Harry Potter -at-Home initiative, they will reunite to take on “The Midnight Duel,” and fans will undoubtedly rejoice to see them collaborating again onscreen! Sudol plays American legilimens Queenie Goldstein, who …read more!

This week’s theater news centers largely around the ongoing shutdown. Both Broadway and the Society of London Theatres announced closure extensions, and Sonia Friedman published a feature discussing the impact on the performing arts. The reach of that impact postponed Imelda Staunton’s upcoming show and prompted BBC’s and Belfast’s Lyric Theatre’s partnership and lockdown dramas. …read more!

House of MinaLima might be closed due to Covid-19, but MinaLima have still been busy making magic with design throughout lockdown. With new Harry Potter prints, a new illustrated classic available, plus news of their next illustrated classic to come, there are plenty of ways to enjoy and support MinaLima during this time! New Magical Moments …read more!

Accio Pride! Covid-19 means many PRIDE parades and events have been cancelled or postponed, so our friends over at the Harry Potter Alliance (HPA) are launching an online Small Things Con: PRIDE series, June 1- 7. UPDATED: 19:19pm EST, May 31: Small Things Con: PRIDE has been postponed in solidarity with Black organizers, please read …read more!

This was a special week in the Wizarding World when fans around the globe, who are always clamouring for new material from J.K. Rowling, were delighted by the expansion of the author’s literary universe with the release of a new children’s fairytale The Ickabog. Several chapters are being released each day for two weeks with a print …read more!

As Leaky announced on Sunday, Academy Award winner Olivia Colman is the next narrator of a chapter of Philosopher’s Stone for the Harry Potter at Home free readings initiative. Olivia Colman, who won the Leading Actress Oscar for her performance as Queen Anne in Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite, as well as the title of Commander of the Most Excellent …read more!

J.K. Rowling released the first two chapters of her new 34-chapter children’s fairytale, The Ickabog, and they immediately introduced the reader to another sumptuous world of fantasy and intrigue. The chapters, which will quickly become must-reads for young and old alike, will be published online and available for free either one at a time or in groups …read more!