August Reading Sessions Open on BN.com

If you haven't had a chance yet to take part in a Barnes and Noble HBP discussion session with the TLC staff, there are two more opportunities for you to do so and they're both open for enrollment right now at this link.
Two sessions are open from August 1 through Sept. 5; in one, LeakyLounge mod CathyContinued...

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 andContinued...

TLC Finalist for Movies.com Award

TLC is very proud to be a finalist in the Movies.com Web site awards. Two of the sites are HP - us and the mighty MuggleNet - so either one is a win for HP fans. If you want to vote for us, please do. You can do so right here. Last year we were up for this but, um...forgot to post about it. That's becauseContinued...

THE INTERVIEW with J.K. Rowling, Part 3

The final part, finally up. Sorry, guys - turns out there was a miscommunication (mine!) preventing this from getting up. Doi! It's up now. (And hey, it worked out to go up almost exactly a week after the time most of you had just gotten your HBPs and started reading them. So, um. Yes. We meant to do this.Continued...

JKRowling.com Updates on Half-Blood Prince Release Weekend

JKRowling has updated her website with thoughts about the Half-Blood Prince release weekend. Her news section, and the extras section both have been updated,including her reactions to meeting our own Melissa and Emerson from MuggleNet.

And there they were, waiting for me. I had met MelissaContinued...

THE INTERVIEW Part Deux

Part two of THE INTERVIEW, along with part two of the report, is up:
The MuggleNet/TLC Jo Rowling Interview, Part Two
Edinburgh Report, Part Two

Update: Emerson has posted a public apology for use of the word "delusional" over on MuggleNet. He also posted a statement that people really need to read. Vent out yourContinued...

CNN Interview with an Awesome Potter Fan

Today our own managing editor Melissa Anelli was interviewed on CNN's American Morning program. The subject was regarding the outpouring of emotion on the net over events in Half-Blood Prince; in particular over the passing of one dearly beloved character. The video for this interview is now onlineContinued...

Comments and Forum Reminder

As you know, tonight at 5pm EST the entire LeakyLounge will shut down save for one area that will serve as a main discussion group until our moderators have had a chance to read the book and prevent people from getting spoiled. Our comments have been disabled for some time now because of traffic, but they will remainContinued...

Less than a week! Celebrate with a...poll!

Six days to go! Today's LeakyLounge poll is up, and it asks you who owns, or owned (SPOILER ALERT) the ring (a picture of which Bloomsbury released awhile ago and you can see in the first post of the thread).
Yesterday's poll, "What is the underlying theme of the HP series?" is closed andContinued...

PotterParties.com surpassed 2000 parties worldwide!

We're happy to announce that the PotterParties.com Web site now has information about over 2000 release parties for next weekend. The site will stop accepting party submissions at 12:00am ET, Tuesday, July 12th. Be sure to make sure the event you are attending is entered and spread the wordContinued...

One Week! Poll of the Day

Today's poll, "What is the underlying theme of the HP series?" is up. This is part of our forum's Poll-a-Day-till-HBP; you can see the other polls here.
Severus Snape won yesterday's "Favorite Villian" post by a landslide 37% of the vote. In second was Professor Dolores Umbridge (13%) andContinued...

Leaky Lounge: 10,000 Members Strong

A quick and fun announcement today: After being open less than six months, Leaky Lounge, our forum, registered its 10,000th member. We're floored and wowed.
And here comes the big massive Thank Yous, because we haven't posted purely about the forum since it opened, and I have to say, it is really everythingContinued...

Second B&N Reading Group Open for Enrollment

The first Barnes & Noble HBP discussion group, scheduled to begin chatting on Tuesday led by our own Sue Upton, is full.
Because of the tremendous response, a second one is now open for enrolllment; this one will be hosted by John Granger, author of Looking for God in Harry Potter, and our own DorisContinued...

8-Days-to-HBP Poll

We'll be posting news as regular today, so as to not let hard-hearted people disrupt the lives they seek to disrupt.
Our 8-days-to-go poll is up at the Lounge, and asks whether Harry would use an Unforgivable, and which one.

Yesterday's poll, concerning what object Arthur Weasley might enchant that might later come in useful,Continued...

LeakyLounge 9-Days-to-Go Poll

Today's Leaky Lounge poll is up, dealing with the kind of things Arthur Weasley might enchant.
You can see a list of our Countdown to HBP polls here; we'll tell you each day when the new one goes up.

Yesterday's poll, Who Will Harry Kiss?, which seemed to inspire a frenzy over there, is closed: the winner,Continued...