Lexicon Unveils Customizable Harry Potter Timelines
Our partners at the Harry Potter Lexicon have unveiled a new and improved Timeline of the Wizarding World in which you can easily and powerfully search the history of a particular character, a category, or even a concept. You can search the Muggle world history, the fandom history, the wizarding history, or any combination thereof. It's really awesome (in the true sense of the word) so
Continued...New Blog, RSS Feed at the Lexicon
Our partners as the Harry Potter Lexicon has a new blog on its What's New page, allowing you to leave comments and subscribe to its new RSS Check out all the new stuff here! There's more coming there soon so keep your eyes peeled!
Vegas Day in the Leaky Lounge!
Today is the July meet-and-greet at our forum, Leaky Lounge, and in honor of all the Las Vegas activities happening later this month, it's themed Viva Las Vegas.
The festivities start at 9 a.m. EST, when the Shrieking Shack opens up with arcade/casino games. There will be Wizard Hold'em Poker ( a scavenger hunt) at 12 p.m. EST; the Gred and Forge Filk Variety Hour and filk-writing conte
Leaky and PotterCast T-Shirts Now Available!
At long last...presenting...Leaky and PotterCast T-Shirts! We know you've been asking for a long time, so we finally have them regularly available, and right in time for Lumos and summer.
We have five new designs for you to choose from: The signature PotterCast T-Shirt, a navy design with a bunch of PotterCast catchphrases jumbled in the center (find your favorite...), which is also ava
Outages at the Lexicon, Quotes and Shop
Some of our sister sites on the Floo Network - The Harry Potter Lexicon, Quick Quotes and The Cauldron Shop - are having some server burps and giggles this week, and have been unable to update; please be patient and it will all be fixed shortly. Thanks much!
WOMBAT Review Course Now Open
The WOMBAT review center at the LeakyLounge is now open! Get your wits about you, and prepare for the next pop quiz from JKRowling.com!
LeakyMug #7: LeakyMug Returning to NYC for Jo's Visit
Surprise! The LeakyMuggers have returned, with a big announcement about the week of Jo Rowlng's visit to New York. We're celebrating with another live podcast - it's four days after our Vegas live podcast but there was no way we could let this momentous event go by without some celebrating with you all, not when almost the entire staffs of both Leaky and MuggleNet will be in town. List
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Leaky the First Fan Site to Win Webby Award
Well, guys, thank you! Because of you, Leaky has become the first fan site to win the Webby Award, considered the "Oscar of the 'Net." We took the People's Voice award in our Celebrity/Fan category; the official site for Prince took the judge's award. Other People's Voice winners this year include my.yahoo.com, Google Maps, Google Earth and many more sites with which we're honored shar
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Last Day for Webby Votes
Thanks to you all, the last time we checked, Leaky had an astounding 65 pecent of the vote going into the final days of the People's Voice Webby competition. However, there are now about 36 hours left to vote, and as such we have absolutely no idea what's going on, because the tracking stats have been turned off. :) Thank you all for your amazing support; some of the things you have wr
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Galleries Update
Our galleries have been updated to include screengrab collections from all four films; some of you might recognize them from the popular Impervius site, which was unfortunately hacked recently. Mary Hamm, our image manager, has brought all that content in here for you all to enjoy - to the tune of some 26,000 images so far. Awesome work, Mary, and enjoy, everyone!
Reading Group Signup Re-opened
We had a technoquirk in our signups for the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone reading groups in LeakyLounge the other day, so now that everything's working the process is repoened again. If you wish to sign up, go here. As a reminder, if you're already in a group or if you were on a waiting list before this registration, don't worry, you're set. Enjoy, guys!
PotterCast #35 Ready for Download
PotterCast #35, the second part of our call-in show from this weekend, is now available for download! First, a reminder: Our impersonations contest is still going on, and at stake is $30 at The Cauldron Shop. For more, click here.
In this show:
-A quick news discussion with the PC trio precedes the call-in show, in which we discuss:
--Emma's not a pink power ranger
--Jo Rowlng's recent sit
Harry Potter Reading Groups Reopen Tomorrow Morning
Since they filled up so fast last time, we are re-opening sorting for our LeakyLounge Reading Groups tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. EST. (See the announcement here.) This will be to discuss Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone; if you signed up for the waiting list last time, you will NOT need to sort - you will be sorted into one of the new groups around midnight tonight.
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Leaky Nominated for Webby Award; People's Choice Open Now
Today, Leaky is greatly, greatly honored to say that we've been nominated for a Webby Award, the most prestigious Web accolade, in the Best Celebrity/Fan Site category. To say we're excited is a ... well it's a bit of an understatement.
And this time, THIS time, we've remembered to post about it on the VERY first day possible: We could use your support! There is a People's Voice compone
Lexicon Page for W.O.M.B.A.T. Assistance
If you, like many, found the JKR W.O.M.B.A.T test (for instructions on how to get to it, click here) less than, er, how shall we say...easy, you're in luck; our partners over at the Harry Potter Lexicon have made an info sheet for you. They don't claim to have the right answers - this is just a GUIDE, people - to HELP you along. -cough- Right.
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