New NECA "Leaky Cauldron" Sign Due This Summer
A bit of a confession now...This editor fully admits that out of the many many new fantastic Harry Potter products that have been previewed here in the past couple of days, I am most excited by this new Leaky Cauldron sign due from NECA (closer look here.) Fans will remember of course, this sign hangsContinued...
Harry Potter Fan Sites Make the New York Times
Many of you emailed to let us know that Harry Potter fan sites are the subject of an article in the Sunday New York Times. The paper lists many popular sites, including our very own, in an article that highlights the various features that can be found on these sites, all regarding our favorite wizard.Continued...
Love is All You Need in the Leaky Lounge
Love is all you need....for a bit of early Valentine's Day fun taking place today in our forum, the Leaky Lounge. Starting right now, you can fill the air with some fantastic filky music, doodle to your heart's content in our avatar and signature thread, and for those who need some advice in mattersContinued...
Countdowns Available as Widgets; Honored by Apple.com!
Leaky's countdown for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and our joint Deathly Hallows and Order of the Phoenix countdown are now available for download as Mac OS X widgets; Yahoo! versions are coming soon. Our book countdown has also been honored as today's Featured Widget on Apple.comContinued...
New Valentine's Day Contest; Daily Prophet Winners
We've got a brand-new love-themed Valentine's Day Contest for you - about what an HP character of your choice might smell upon encountering the Amortentia potion. Full instructions and rules are here; essays have a limit of 150 words, a PG-13 maximum rating, and a deadline of Feb. 15.
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Issue 13 of Scribbulus Now Online
Issue 13 of Scribbulus, TLC's essay collection is now online. We have a great variety of essays for you this month, including a timely piece involving the current struggles public schools are facing at keeping Harry Potter available for children, a very interesting (and funny) paper focusing on astronomy inContinued...
New Deathly Hallows and Order of the Phoenix Countdowns
We waited a bit to announce that new book countdown you see on the right side of the page, because we were working on something better: With Harry Potter book and film so close together this year, we've made a combined countdown for your Web page, MySpaces, etc. Now you canContinued...
New Scribbulus Calls for Essays
Scribbulus, TLC's essay project, has issued a new call for papers featuring a variety of topics for the next few months. In addition to the most recent call for essays on Deathly Hallows, we can announce the following topics:
- Bizarre, Wacky and Wonderful Theories - April Fools' Special (Please submit by MarchContinued...
New Chamber of Chat Riddle Room and More
The Chamber of Chat, a unique interactive chat world for Potter fans everywhere here at Leaky, has added a brand new section called the Riddle Room. There are also some new Chamber of Chat contact tables you can add to your MySpace page as well, available via this link. The Chamber of Chat is a fun, safeContinued...
Scribbulus Issue 12 Now Online
Issue 12 of Scribbulus, Leaky's essay collection is now online. Included in this issue are the following:
- "The Unsinkable Ship" by futureweasley
- "Tom Riddle and the Faustian Pact" by Canis sapiens
- "Harry Potter and the Literary Tradition" by Severina Aequitas
- "Action! Harry PotterContinued...
Harrius Potter Et Camera Secretorum
The second installment in the Harry Potter series has now been released in Latin. Harrius Potter Et Camera Secretorum is now available (as seen in our Cauldron Shop), and The Times newspaper has a review of this new version of Chamber of Secrets. Of this translation into the ancient language, the reviewer writes:Continued...
Leaky Lounge and the Harry Potter Book Club
The Leaky Lounge has a great way to start off the year as we have now launched our Harry Potter Book Club. Open to all members, each month we will take a more in-depth look at each of the Harry Potter novels, starting this month with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Led by our great forum moderatingContinued...
Reminder: Last Two Days for Leaky/PotterCast Shirts
Just a quick reminder that today and tomorrow are the LAST days possible to buy Leaky and PotterCast T-shirts. On January 1, 2007, these shirts will become discontinued.
Thanks very much for all your support as always!
Leaky Lounge Opens "Deathly Hallows" Section
With all the news and excitement over the release of the title for book seven, the Leaky Lounge has now opened a special "Deathly Hallows" section of our forum. Filled with various polls, threads, and interesting theory discussions, there are many links to all the various theories and researchContinued...
Mini Issue of Scribbulus
The staff of Scribbulus has a bit of holiday fun for you with this new mini-issue containing two parody essays.
The essays are CIA "Secretly Copied Deathly Hallows Manuscript to Change Plot Lines" by Bob Woodwand and Carl Bernstake Madurodam Post Writers and The Noble History of Duelling by Sir Lance BluntleyContinued...