A followup for you now on the case of the Gwinnett County, Georgia woman who is continuing her attempt to have the Harry Potter books removed from elementary school libraries. Having been denied by the local school board, Laura Mallory appealed her case before the State Board of Education. In her attempt to plead her …read more!

As we told you, September 23-30 was Banned Book Week, and J.K. Rowling noted on her website that she considers “annual inclusion on the list as a great honour. ” Now the American Library Association reports that the Harry Potter series was the top vote-getter in a poll of over 5,000 readers voting for their …read more!

“Oh, Harry, don’t you see?” Hermione breathed. “If [Professor Umbridge] could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!” As noted by Jo, we’re at the end of Banned Books Week 2006, and as is tradition here on Leaky, here’s …read more!

The box set which contains Harry’s Schoolbooks, or the special Harry Potter books “Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them,” and “Quidditch Through the Ages” is sporting a new cover featuring some new artwork from illustrator Mary GrandePre. You can see this new artwork which shows Madam Hooch or a referee during a Quidditch Game …read more!

Bloomsbury, the UK publishers of the Harry Potter series, has announced that they will issue a special edition paperback of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in December, featuring a new introduction by author Alexander McCall Smith. This special paperback will be among 21 special paperbacks released as part of the company’s 21st birthday celebration …read more!

British printing firm St. Ives, best known for printing the Harry Potter book series, has been “hit by a major scandal” after “serious accounting errors” were revealed. The errors occurred in the firm’s point-of-sale division (customers include Marks & Spencer and WH Smith Bookseller) and resulted in the firing of the person responsible. The errors …read more!

Last August, we first told you that a handwritten draft of chapter six from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone would be on public display at the Seven Stories Centre in the UK. The Journey from Platform Nine and Three Quarters draft from J.K. Rowling will now soon be pulled from exhibit, reports the website, …read more!

The live, official Harry Potter podcasts that Cheryl Klein of Scholastic, Emerson Spartz (of MuggleNet) and I (for Leaky!) did in July are now all available for download on iTunes right here. We met nearly 1,000 of you at these events, starting at Anderson’s in Naperville, IL, and going to Barnes and Noble in Las …read more!

A few weeks ago, we told you one location for filming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was reported to take place near Blenheim Palace in the last part of July. Some new photos from this event are now online of Dan Radcliffe filming a scene for the fifth Potter film. While we …read more!

There are some new photos online today of filming for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which you can see here in our galleries. These photos show Dan Radcliffe (Harry), and someone who looks like Harry Melling (Dudley) running along the set of Privet Drive. In these photos, which were taken by Kaye …read more!