Vote for IQA to Win $25k Grant, Support Muggle Youth Quidditch
The International Quidditch Association has been accepted as a candidate for the Pepsi Refresh Project. The organization is eligible to win a $25,000 grant to start youth Quidditch programs in elementary and middle schools - but they need your help to win!
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Pre-Orders Open for "Dear Mr. Potter"
"Dear Mr. Potter: Letters of Love, Loss, and Magic" is a new book featuring hundreds of letters and pictures from fans who have been impacted and inspired by Harry Potter.
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Reminder: Nine Days Left to Donate to Accio Books! Help Build a Library
There are only nine days left to take part in the Accio Books Fundraiser, the HP Alliance's annual book drive which has donated over 50,000 books to date. As readers will recall, the HPA aims to build an entire library of books in partnership with the Bedford-StuyvesantContinued...
J.K. Rowling Donates Signed Books for Young Fan's Fundraiser, Money to Centre of Hope
Two reports have surfaced online recently regarding generous donations Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has made to various charities.
The first comes from The Daily Record in Scotland which reported that Ms. Rowling donated 50,000GBP ($81,400) to help victims ofContinued...
A Very Different April Fool's
Hey everyone. Every year since 2003 Leaky has taken part in April Fool's celebrations, transforming, in some cases, the entire site: We have been hacked by Peeves, we have discovered the wizarding version of Twitter, we have hired Sybill Trelawney as a disastrous news editor, and we have turned into a Glee-lover'sContinued...
Trevor Project to Honor Daniel Radcliffe with Hero Award
The AP is reporting that Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) will receive the Trevor Project's Hero Award at a ceremony in New York City this June.
Radcliffe has been a strong supporter of the Trevor Project for the past couple of years, an organization "for suicide prevention efforts among gay,Continued...
Accio Books: Help Build the Imagine Better Library; LiveStream Event NOW!
The HP Alliance is holding a fundraising venture this weekend which aims to fund the supplying of books a new library for the children of the Bedford-Stuyvesant New Beginnings Charter School in New York City. The HPA has partnered with Borders to offer thisContinued...
Join the HPA Livestream Now to Wrock for Marriage Equality!
Hurry along to The Harry Potter Alliance's Wrock for Equality Livestream, at this link. The Harry Potter Alliance is continuing their fight for LGBTQ equality with Wrock for Equality again this year - this time in Rhode Island! Various wizard rockers, including The Whomping Willows, TheContinued...
Helping Haiti Heal Anniversary LiveStream and Signed JKR Books Prize Pull!
It has been a year since the Harry Potter fandom came together to raise $123,000 for the victims of the Haiti earthquakes, and we are celebrating by, finally, raffling off the full signed set of J.K. Rowling books - which means you have about TWO HOURS to enter to win thisContinued...
"Why the Body Bind is My Nightmare": Evanna Lynch Blogs for HPA's "Body Bind Horcrux" Campaign
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. EvannaContinued...
Signed JKR Books Raffle Livestream - starting soon!
Signed Harry Potter Books Charity Raffle LiveStream Event Tomorrow at 2pm EST
Kylie Peterson and Marshall Griffin Selected to Run for Lumos in 2011 London Marathon
We let you know at the end of October that Lumos, the children's charity founded by J.K. Rowling, was looking for committed fundraisers to take one of its two Gold Bond places in the 2011 Virgin London Marathon. Leaky reader Kylie Peterson emailed in to let usContinued...
The 2010 Leakies: Nominations Announced, Voting Open!
The nominations for our second annual Leakies are now ready to be announced and awaiting your votes! Our annual award ceremony highlights the most popular, most interesting, and most talked about stories and people from the past year in Harry Potter. Help us wrap upContinued...
Happy Harry Holidays with Digital Wizard Rock
It's near Christmas and you haven't gotten Jingle Spells! For shame! Never fear, if you didn't manage to get a physical copy in time (the next shipment goes out in January), you can download a dose of your favorite Potter-themed Christmas music from iTunes. Check it out:
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