The Leaky Lounge has a great way to start off the year as we have now launched our Harry Potter Book Club. Open to all members, each month we will take a more in-depth look at each of the Harry Potter novels, starting this month with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Led by our …read more!

We’re a day or so late (it was a holiday, sorry), but finally our last show of 2006 AND our first show of 2007 are out, both at once! Relax, it’s just one show. Anyway, to listen, just hit the “Play” button on the right side of the page (—>), or use iTunes, or direct …read more!

Hey all: First, Happy New Year. Second, Leaky will be at Phoenix Rising, a Harry Potter convention in New Orleans, on May 17-20 of 2007. We will be hosting a live PotterCast after the welcoming dinner (which you need to be registered to attend), and I will be part of a panel giving a keynote …read more!

Daniel Radcliffe is on The Observer’s list of the people poised to become the “breakthrough artists” of 2007. Citing Dan’s “Hot Career Move” of performing onstage in “Equus” next month, the Observer predicts “Radcliffe’s apprenticeship as Harry Potter taught him how to act. The boy wizard shall come of age” and goes on to say …read more!

“I remember it clear as anything, because I’d just started here myself. New Year’s Eve and bitter cold, snowing, you know. Nasty night. And this girl, not much older than I was myself at the time, came staggering up the front steps. Well, she wasn’t the first. We took her in, and she had the …read more!

The calendar on JKRowling.com has been updated to honor the first Wizard of the Month for 2007. He is someone who Hagrid probably admires quite a bit! 😉

And now for the last of our three wrapups of the year in Potter – our look at what has happened with the Harry Potter book series and in J.K. Rowling news. It’s been a year of anticipation, clues, teases, attempted bannings, exciting events and most importantly a lead-up to the last part of this …read more!

This has been Leaky’s biggest year of change yet; with our first full year of podcasts, a vast redesign and reconceptualizing of the site and a huge number of new sections, we are unrecognizable from 2005. We’ve also monitored more fan activity than ever before, including conventions and wizard rock. Though the Harry Potter fandom …read more!

As this year winds to an end and we now have a title for the last Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, there are several news articles online tonight all focusing on a potential release of Book Seven in 2007. The Observer has a new profile of Jo, in an opinion piece …read more!

It’s that time again, when we go over everything we’ve learned and read and done over this terrific year. We have so much big news to recap for the year 2006, that for the first time we’re splitting our year in review up into parts. Tonight we recap the year in Harry Potter movies – …read more!