Today’s edition of the Wall Street Journal reports that a new fad is sweeping college campuses across the U.S. — Intramural (earthbound) Quidditch! The article is available online to paid subscribers, and TLC is happy to provide some highlights: In Quidditch games played at Middlebury College in Vermont, one student IS the Snitch, and attempts …read more!

Feeling festive today? Then the Leaky Lounge is the place for you as the staff of Lily and Stag book reading groups cordially invite you to attend our own Yule Ball. Taking place today between Noon and 6pm (EST) in our forums, this event is sure to help get you into the festive mood as …read more!

Scholastic, the US publishers of the Harry Potter series, has now added new Book Seven placeholder art on the Amazon.com Harry Potter 7 page. You can also see this artwork in the icon with this post. Readers will remember earlier this fall, Scholastic updated the image; this is now the second image that we have. …read more!

Thanks to WB, we now have that brand new photo from Newsweek magazine of actor Daniel Radcliffe and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix director David Yates, which you can see here.

In the seemingly never-ending saga of Laura Mallory’s fight to get Harry Potter banned from school bookshelves in Georgia, MSNBC reports that though the state board voted to keep the books, she is considering yet another appeal. The board members apparently voted “without discussion” to keep the books, adding another foil to Mallory’s now year-long …read more!

Earlier this week we told you about a new interview with Order of the Phoenix director David Yates in the December 18 issue of Newsweek Magazine. The magazine, which is now available, does contain a new photo of actor Dan Radcliffe (Harry Potter) and director David Yates, which you can see here, via DanRadcliffe.co.uk. Also, …read more!

For those that like to keep track of all the press clippings on the Potter movies, there is another to add the collection as the new January issue of Premiere Magazine contains a small preview of the upcoming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Part of the magazine’s 2007 movie preview, the Harry …read more!

Hey guys: If you are going to be sending us a Christmas themed HP filk for our holiday PotterCasts, we remind you that the deadline is Friday, Dec. 15. You can submit by sending the file to [email protected] (as our other email addy is having a few issues right now), or calling it in at …read more!

We’ve now uploaded more than a hundred photos from this weekend’s Wizard Rockextravaganza Yule Ball in Cambridge, Mass., and our report is below. This week’s PotterCast will also feature interviews and audio from the show; in the meantime, here’s hoping some words and pictures will do: ~*~ Leaky Report: Wizard Rock Yule Ball December 10, …read more!

A hearing official in Georgia has offered a recommendation to the state school board in the much-publicized fight waged by Laura Mallory to take Potter off library shelves, Associated Press reports. Ms. Mallory has claimed, in hearings at the Gwinnett County and state level, that the books indoctrinate children in paganism: the hearing official has …read more!