Actress Julie Christie who plays Madame Rosmerta, the landlady of our favorite Three Broomsticks Inn in the Harry Potter films, celebrates her 66th birthday today. Happy Birthday Julie! Cheers!

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 …read more!

To celebrate having less than 100 days to go until Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows hits shelves, we are launching our longest and most interactive and most important competition EVER. The one that could make or break your whole fandom reputation. The quiz that will earn you your Harry Potter cred. It’s our Deathly …read more!

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the Superior Court of Gwinnett in Georgia will hear the appeal of the State Board of Education’s ruling against longtime Harry Potter critic, Laura Mallory, and her claim that the fictional book’s spot in the school district’s libraries was teaching the children ‘witchcraft.’ Mallory’s last attempt at getting the Harry …read more!

Actor Dan Radcliffe attended the Theatre Book Prize Awards today in London, England. We now have some new photos of the Harry Potter actor at these awards, which you can see here in our galleries. Dan presented this award to John Heilpern for his book John Osborne: a Patriot for Us. This award is presented …read more!

The Drogheda Independent newspaper has a lengthy new interview with actress Evanna Lynch where she discusses things such as working on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, her role as Luna Lovegood, as well her feelings on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. She described working on the fifth Harry Potter film as …read more!

Swish and Wiimote!.. Well it’s not quite what Professor Flitwick would have taught at Hogwarts, but tonight, in addition to those new screenshot photos, IGN.com now has a feature online regarding the special Wiimote wand for use with playing the upcoming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix video game on the Nintendo Wii …read more!

There are a few more new images from the upcoming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix video game now online. Courtesy of Jeux-france.com you can now see some new images from the game here in our galleries, including one still of Professor Dumbledore fighting Lord Voldemort in the Ministry of Magic. Update:Thanks to …read more!

Harry Potter fan sites are the subject of a new feature by the Associated Press. In the new article which describes the rise and development of various fansites such as the Sugar Quill, Floo partner the Harry Potter Lexicon, MuggleNet, Harry Potter for Grownups, and our very own Leaky Cauldron, the piece describes how the …read more!

Beep Beep! As part of their “There Will Soon Be 7” campaign, Scholastic, the US publishers of the Harry Potter novels, have announced the dates of a special Knight Bus tour. Kicking off June 1 from New York City, the Knight Bus tour will feature a bus that will travel to 37 different libraries across …read more!