The brother of Afshan Azad (Padma Patil) has been put in jail for assaulting Ms. Azad June of last year: The brother of Harry Potter actress Afshan Azad was jailed on Friday for six months for attacking his sister after discovering she was dating a non-Muslim. … The actress, who now lives in London, had …read more!

Something new today for Leakypedia Page of the day, How many magical objects can you name and define? Our Magical Objects page seems to currently only contain Horcruxes.. (gross.) Everyone who contributed good info to this page (on the Leakypedia!) will receive 15 points for every defined magical object on this page from now until …read more!

The New Year has come and gone, and with it my ambition to start anything new. This is not to say I will NOT start anything new. As a matter of fact, I absolutely plan to start something new. Just as soon as I finish all those projects I started…oh, about this time LAST year. …read more!

The Harry Potter Alliance‘s Deathly Hallows Campaign is focusing on The Body Bind Horcrux throughout January to tackle the “feeling of being cut off from this most fundamental part of ourselves: our bodies” and to find out how we can better celebrate our bodies in the world. Evanna Lynch, who plays Luna Lovegood in the …read more!

A New York Times article about the recovery of the critically injured U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords revealed that Congresswoman Giffords has begun to show some impressive signs of progress, including looking at “pages of large-print text taken from a Harry Potter book”. Ms. Giffords was one of the victims of a shooting near Tucson, Arizona …read more!

Awards season has begun for the Harry Potter actors; as a result, many members of the Harry Potter cast were seen at a number of parties and awards ceremonies over the last week. Firstly though, Alan Rickman (Severus Snape) and Fiona Shaw (Petunia Dursley) attended the BAM Theatre Season OpeningParty for “John Gabriel Borkman”, in …read more!

An interview with the “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” art director, Andrew Ackland-Snow, has revealed a bit of curious information from the forthcoming conclusion to final part of the Harry Potter film series. This information, which is being reported in Cine Premiere Mexico, is quite spoiler-rific and details the death sequence of Severus Snape …read more!

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) this morning released the list of nominees for the 2011 Orange British Academy Film Awards. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” received two nods, for Special Visual Effects (Tim Burke, John Richardson, Nicolas Ait’Hadi, Christian Manz) and Make Up and Hair (Amanda Knight, Lisa …read more!

So by now you have all probably see the new amazing photo of Neville in the midst of the battle of Hogwarts. It had me in a Neville mood today, and wouldn’t you know that Neville happens to be one of the pages on the Leakypedia that is pretty well filled out! So no need …read more!

A collection of concept art of the much talked about Tale of the Three Brothers sequence of the “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” film has been released on the blog of the sequence’s artist, Alexis Liddell. Thanks to Alex, we have the full collection of artwork available for viewing right here. With …read more!