Today we celebrate the birthday of our senior editor Edward! We hope you’ll all join us in wishing him a great day, which we’re very happy came just one day short of the leap-year curse. No fun celebrating once every four years! 😛 Happy day Edward, we love you!

Pottermore and OverDrive, “a leading distributor for the school and library market,” have entered into an agreement that will allow the entire Harry Potter series to be freely available to students and library patrons: OverDrive director of marketing David Burleigh said the e-books and audiobooks are not yet available, though libraries and schools can pre-order …read more!

Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid), Nick Moran (Scabior), Richard Griffiths (Uncle Vernon), and Jessie Cave (Lavender Brown) have submitted a doodle for this year’s National Doodle Day. Their doodles, along with others submitted by celebrities, will be auctioned on eBay starting March 2nd to raise money for Epilepsy Action. You can see their doodles here. To read …read more!

Dan Radcliffe recently did an interview and photoshoot for Bullett Magazine. The photoshoot shows Radcliffe in a lot of fun and Hollywood star-esque shots, and those images can be seen here and here in our galleries. The interview itself, which can be read here, has Radcliffe discussing “The Woman in Black,” as well as his …read more!

We have a new behind the scenes image of Bonnie Wright and David Thewlis (Remus Lupin) in their upcoming short film “Separate We Come, Separate We Go.” The film will be part of the LCC Graduate Film project and is being directed by Wright. You can see the image here in our galleries and read …read more!

A very happy birthday goes out to actors James and Oliver Phelps, who play our favorite mischief making twins in Harry Potter. The Phelps brothers turn 26 today. Warm birthday wishes from everyone at Leaky!

In a new article from Entertainment Weekly the make-up team for the Harry Potter films discusses all the hard work that went into aging the actors for the Epilogue in “Deathly Hallows: Part 2”: Old age makeup is tricky. “Ninety percent of the time, it attracts attention to itself’ Dudman points out. So the process …read more!

She has only tweeted nine times, and mostly to say she is spending her time with paper and pen as a better companion than digital communication. With yesterday’s announcement that she will be publishing something not-Harry-Potter-related for the first time, J.K. Rowling sent out another tweet to confirm the story and indicate that it would …read more!

A small update this morning from J.K. Rowling’s Twitter indicates her book will be out this year:As you may have heard, I have a new book out later this year. Very different to Harry, although I’ve enjoyed writing it every bit as much.

Though it would seem that a new novel by J.K. Rowling, brought to a new publisher, would incite the mother of all bidding wars, an Associated Press report has indicated that there was no auction for the book. Rowling’s agent, Neil Blair, would not disclose financial details of the deal but said there had been …read more!