The Leaky Cauldron - Galleries

2008 Holiday Countdown Calendar from our Image Galleries

Mon Dec 01 15:32:00 -0500 2008

Just in time for the holiday season, our Gallery Staffers have joined together to create the 2008 Holiday Countdown Calendar to make those days before Christmas pass by faster. Each day from now until December 24th, one of our gallery staffers will post a holiday-themed image from our Image or Fan Art Galleries for your enjoyment. As it is now December 1st, below is the first day of our 2008 ...

Launching the IContest in our Image Galleries

Fri May 09 00:49:00 -0400 2008

Our Leaky Contest Crew has teamed up with our Image Gallery staffers to form a new contest set to be launched on May 12th. Taking place in our Image and Fan Art Galleries, the IContest will have you creating icons based on some of the fan art images as well as other images from our galleries in future weeks. Starting May 12th, we will ask you to create an icon based from one of the many drawi...

Leaky's Potter Year In Summary Contest Winners Announced

Thu Jan 03 01:10:00 -0500 2008

Our last Leaky contest, the Potter Year In Summary, is now complete and we are very happy to announce the winners in the contest’s three categories: Video, Art, and Writing. In this contest, we asked you to share with us your memories of the big events this fandom gave us in 2007 using one of the three mentioned mediums. You responded by sending us many moving, humorous, and special entries i...

Image Gallery Updates

Sat Apr 14 01:03:30 -0400 2007

<>We have a host of awesome changes to report tonight about our massive Harry Potter Image Gallery, which will change the way you use them entirely:
1. You can now log in to the Gallery using the same login and password you have for the LeakyLounge or Fan Art Galleries. If you don't currently have an account you can register for one here at the LeakyLounge. Again, this account will be active for t...

Find Anything - Ask Peeves!

Tue Nov 28 21:21:10 -0500 2006

<>Oh, we're sorry, has Peeves been pestering you on our home page and in the forum? We tried to get rid of him, you see, but Jo was right: He's like dry rot. You can't get rid of him.
That's why we found him a new home. Presenting the return of AskPeeves.org, our Harry Potter search engine! Some of you may remember Peeves from our 2005 April Fool's Day postings. He's back, and this time we've forc...

New Order of the Phoenix Screencaps Available

Sat Nov 25 11:40:17 -0500 2006

We've added about 100 high-definition screencaps from the teaser trailer and more than 400 caps from the HBO Order of the Phoenix preview to our galleries, giving good quality looks at Bellatrix, the prophecy, Luna, the Veil room, the DA, Umbridge, the Wizengamot, and so much more. Enjoy!

Leaky Galleries...All New YET AGAIN

Tue Nov 21 01:42:13 -0500 2006

Our own Super!Alex has struck again: As you've probably noticed, our gallery has been down for more than 24 hours, because it was slow and destroying everyone's ability to visit the site on this very important weekend of trailers and such.
What does our own Alex do? Come up with a quick fix? No. He rewrites the whole gallery.

<>Presenting our THIRD incarnation of our huuuuge image galleries. This ...

Outages at the Lexicon, Quotes and Shop

Sun Jun 18 12:04:53 -0400 2006

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!

The New Leaky Gallery

Tue Jun 13 14:37:24 -0400 2006

<>The Leaky Gallery has been completely redesigned! Thanks to John Noe and Super Alex, one of Leaky's top programmers, it's now boasting its own snazzy design that changes with every click.
Since we unveiled this gallery in February, we have fielded your hundreds of complaints; the AJAX-based navigation, while easy on load times, is still too problematic for the back button, for direct image links...

"Dracorex Hogwartsia" Photos in Gallery

Tue May 23 12:05:23 -0400 2006

Thanks to The Children's Museum in Indianapolis, we have six photos of the newly named dinosaur, "Dracorex Hogwartsia," in the gallery. Photos include the display, the dinosaur itself, and the quote from J.K. Rowling, the full text of which is below:

<>"The naming of Dracorex hogwartsia is easily the most unexpected honour to have come my way since the publication of the Harry Potter books! I am a...

Leaky the First Fan Site to Win Webby Award

Tue May 09 02:19:34 -0400 2006

<>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 share a page....

Galleries Update

Fri Apr 21 01:31:24 -0400 2006

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!

300+ New Hi-Res Images from Empire Awards in Galleries

Wed Apr 05 11:18:31 -0400 2006

Another major gallery update; Mary has uploaded more than 300 hi-resolution images from the Empire Awards, in addition to what was there before, including some gorgeous new pics of Emma, and great ones of Dan, Rupert, Robert Pattinson, the twins and more. Check them out here, and enjoy!

New Hi-Res Images of JKR at British Book Awards, Goblet Film, in Gallery

Sun Apr 02 01:35:59 -0500 2006

Our Gallery, which now has more than 20,000 images, now has an album of 67 hi-res images JKR at the British Book Awards, thanks to our image manager, Mary. There are now also several thousand screencaps from Goblet of Fire and the DVD. Enjoy!

New Hi-Res Goblet of Fire Character Portraits in the Gallery

Sat Mar 04 11:24:08 -0500 2006

Mary, our new Galleries Image Person (her title is a work in progress) has uploaded about 20 hi-res character portriaits from the Goblet of Fire studio shoot; these portraits include new ones of Karkaroff, Amos Diggory, Harry, Cho Chang, Krum, Myrtle, Cedric, Fleur, and Ron. They've been around but never in hi-res before, so see them here, and enjoy!