Lexicon Introduces Knight Bus Tours

Our partners at the Harry Potter Lexicon have a great new feature: Knight Bus Tours. These guided tours will zoom you through the Lexicon so you can discover things you never knew about Harry Potter; it will include commentary from Lexicon staffers and links to interesting pieces of Potter arcania and more.
Right now there are two tours available; The C Line (the Classical Tour) and the

HP News Widget Now Available for Windows; Floo Search Widget Now Available, Period!

Chris Chang has been up to it again: you can now have a Harry Potter News Widget on your Windows or Mac machine (please note you will need the latest version of Konfabulator/Yahoo Widget software, whether on Mac or Windows. The Dashboard version is still available here). You've been asking for this for ages, so enjoy!
And, we also have for you a brand new widget, the Harry Potter Search

Potter Fan Sites in the News

Many readers have emailed us to let us know about a nice mention of The Leaky Cauldron and other Harry Potter fansites included in this article in Entertainment Weekly. Also, The Orlando Sentinel has an A to Z listing of all things Harry Potter. This editor admits she enjoyed the entry for letter 'L' very much! :) Thanks to all the great readers who emailed!

Welcome, Heather!

Hey everybody!

John here - making my inaugural news post here to give an exciting announcement! We've been expanding Leaky's staff lately, and that means more editors, more helpers and...an assistant for me!

So, it is time to reveal the new mystery staffer mentioned on the latest PotterCast. Many of you know her as Makani - An artist whose work has recently been added to the HP Lexicon a

Julie Comes to Leaky!

As those of you who were around here an eon ago remember, we not-so-recently put out a call for editors. We're very proud to announce our first new editor from that bunch, Julie Tynion, who was just too sweet, too persistent, too knowledgeable, and too enthusiastic for us to turn away. We hope you'll join us in welcoming her to the Leaky fold - we are thrilled to have her! Her pic and

Chamber of Chat Back Online

Some of you are already aware, but we're finally ready to announce that after a short absence because of security issues, Chamber of Chat, our graphic chat room, is back online, revamped and almost completely renovated and running on its own server. In this new version you:

• Register as a member (you'll receive login information and retain your character's qualities; you must request mem

Lexicon: HBP Mystery Person Revealed?

The Lexicon has received information that may reveal the identity of someone mentioned at the end of HBP via initials. (For the unspoiled, we'll refrain from posting them.) It should be noted that this, while it comes from a reliable source, is still rumor until confirmed or denied by Jo & Co. It is, however, strong enough of a rumor to bring to your attention.

JKR Interviews Online at Quick Quotes

The transcripts of all the recent JKR interviews are now up in full on our Floo Partner, the QQQ: Click here for transcripts, and here for summaries. The hardworking team over there has used the summary page to break down every last piece of info given by JKR in the six interviews she gave leading up to and after the book release. It's really great; well done, guys.

The Floo Network Announces: The Cauldron Shop!

Update: Many of you complained that the calendars were too expensive, so Ila, our WB Rep, had their prices slashed to half, right here - just an example of how your feedback works!

After almost 30 forum pages and more than 800 comments of fan speculation, the time has come to announce what we've been teasing all day! You all are once again, astoundingly smart, and were hot on our trail

FLOO: Hogwarts Galleries Job Openings

Our Floo partner, the Hogwarts Galleries, is looking for a few talented volunteers to add to its staff of one! More specifically, it needs two permanent editors and three people for a specific project (and possibly more projects down the line).
Applicants should have the following qualifications/abilities/skills:

• Enthusiasm! It's what drives the entire Floo.
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• A deep and abiding love of al

ADMIN: Subscriptions, Preorders and Floo, Oh My

We've been tidying up behind the scenes here on Leaky and you'll notice a few changes (for those of you on the text-only version of the site, come to the main page to see everything. All of this will be made text-version-available in the near future).
So let's do a quick tour.

1. First, look up. Under the HBP countdown are preordering links for HBP (this feature is way overdue). These l

HP Lexicon's Lovey Makover

Our Floo Network partner, the Harry Potter Lexicon, has had a bit of a Valentine's makeover, thanks to the talented Laura Freeman. Laura did the artwork for the Lexicon's winter theme as well, and is justifiably famous in the fandom for being the artist whose picture of the Marauders Jo Rowling once had on her desktop. It was a "particularly accurate portrayal of Sirius and Lupin," Row

Floo: French HP Lexicon Debuts

We are very happy to announce that the official French version of our Floo partner, The Harry Potter Lexicon, called 'Encyclopédie Harry Potter is live and ready for perusal by our friends in France.
The site was translated from the English version by no fewer than 20 fans, and joins the Spanish version, El Diccionario de los Magos, as the second official Lexicon translation.

2004: The Year in HP: A Leaky Cauldron Review

Happy New Year everyone! Because 2005 is going to be such a big year for Harry
Potter fans, we thought now was a good time to look back at 2004, which
wasn't too shabby either where we're concerned. Editor Sue scoured our archives
and found all our 2004 highlights, so we hope you enjoy this little review,
which reveals 2004 as a strong mix of Prisoner of Azkaban highlights
and the unmitiga

FLOO: The Floo Network Welcomes Madam Scoop's and the New and Improved Quotes Section!

The Floo Network is proud to present a very important addition!
When Floo was formed, we set out to make it easy for a fan to find any info he or she needed. A large part of that goal was the incorporation of Quick Quotes, the largest archive of J.K. Rowling interviews on the Web.

When we stumbled across Madam Scoop's, however, we knew Quick Quotes had found its match. Madam Scoop's tak