We have a few updates to tell you about regarding a few of the many Harry Potter conferences and conventions due to take place in the next few years. First, Portus 2008, the Harry Potter Symposium set for Dallas, Texas next year has now launched their website. Brought to you by the same group that …read more!

As witnessed by yesterday’s news regarding the Entertainment Weekly feature on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the media coverage of the fifth film is cranking up and more magazines are also focusing on Harry Potter. Several readers let us know the new issue of Life Story Movie Magic contains a large feature …read more!

Many birthday wishes go out to actor Robbie Coltrane (Rubeus Hagrid) who celebrates his 57th birthday today! Also during this very busy week of Potter, Brendan Gleeson (Professor ‘Mad­Eye’ Moody) celebrated his 52nd birthday on Thursday. Happy (belated) birthday Brendan! Double the cheers for Robbie and Brendan!

The new issue of Entertainment Weekly that TLC first told you would feature Harry Potter is now available containing those new photos as well as an article which is now online. In this feature, there are new quotes from several of the actors such as Dan Radcliffe on the book vs the movie (”This is …read more!

Ohmygod, you killed PotterCast! There were so many of you calling (even though it was a callout cast) during the live PotterCast tonight that both our recording and our backup recording went kabloom due to simultaneous system failures (read: our comps crashed). We had recorded for about an hour and a half at that point, …read more!

Warner Bros. has released 12 high-resolution images from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, including stunning shots of Ginny, Cho, Luna, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Umbridge, Lucius, Harry with Sirius, the kids in the Ministry, Harry on trial, and a lot more. Links below! Harry, Luna, Hermione, Ron, Neville and Ginny in the Ministry, …read more!

Despite all the excitement of the new book covers, we do have other news today involving the Harry Potter films. TLC reader Christina let us know that the new issue of Entertainment Weekly will focus on the Harry Potter movies and books, and have three different covers featuring actors from the films. The “Pop Culture” …read more!

(Looking for the cover art? Right here, at leakynews.com/dh). Tonight, we released a special edition of PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast (click for details), to celebrate the release of the cover art and dish on some of the first theories; tomorrow we want to hear from you. This will be a call-OUT cast, meaning you …read more!

Update: We’ve updated our PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast with a cover release show (called “Cover Art, or, Whose Soul Is It Anyway?”), going over all the new theories. Click here for details or just update your iTunes or press play on a Flash player! Here it is, in gorgeous hi-res, the cover art for …read more!

NBC’s The Today Show has announced that they’re about to have some big Potter news. Tune into your local channel to see the cover art revealed first hand!