The latest issue of Scribbulus, Leaky’s essay project, is here! In this issue we have 10 more essays for you, including Harry Potter and the Gothic Novel, by Elizabeth Murray; Harry Potter – the Accidental Horcrux,” by Michael Daniel; Faithful Snape, by Arthura Weasley, and Heaven, Hell and Harry, by Dark Elder. Other essays deal …read more!

The next live Leaky Mug, the joint podcast that PotterCast and MuggleCast produce on special occasions, will be on September 28, at Borders in Westwood, located at 1360 Westwood Blvd. in Los Angeles. It will start at 7 p.m. sharp, so we hope to see you there for some fun Harry Potter discussion and more. …read more!

We told you that actor Alan Rickman was due to be interviewed today on the BBC 4 radio show “The Film Programme.” You can now listen to that interview online, here (click on the “Listen Again” link on the right-hand side of the page). The interview with Mr. Rickman begins at 19:57 into the program, …read more!

British tabloid The Sun recently reported that there had been an error in Half-Blood Prince regarding the number of O.W.L.s Hermione receives compared to the number she sat in book five. Fans had originally spotted the error, but Bloomsbury told Leaky the error is at least a year old, spotted well before the latest rash …read more!

JKRowling.com has been updated with new Wizard of the Month, Hambledon Quince, who should give author John Gray a run for his money!

Update: Producers of the show say that the interview will air Thursday, between 1 and 4 p.m. Actor Rupert Grint (Ron) will be a guest on the Edith Bowman Show on BBC Radio 1 next week. We don’t know yet the specific date that Rupert will appear on the program, which airs Monday-Friday from 1:00-4:00 …read more!

From the Leaky funny files: earlier this month, humor ‘zine McSweeney’s published an article regarding the “Recruitment of Harry Potter,” in which a zealous fictional Quidditch recruiter sends a memo planning how best to snag Harry for the team: “Tell him we will absolutely pull Snape’s season tickets if that’s any concern at all. Hell, …read more!

British printing firm St. Ives, best known for printing the Harry Potter book series, has been “hit by a major scandal” after “serious accounting errors” were revealed. The errors occurred in the firm’s point-of-sale division (customers include Marks & Spencer and WH Smith Bookseller) and resulted in the firing of the person responsible. The errors …read more!

Warner Bros.’ official Harry Potter website has been updated with a new Pensieve section, which includes Teasers and Trailers, Interviews, Movie Clips and DVD Extras. Check it out! Thanks to all who sent this in.

We now have video available of the press conference that J.K. Rowling did at Radio City Music Hall on August 1; sorry for the delay getting this to you. We have a transcript available here and you can download the file by right-clicking and “saving as” at the following links Update redownload; the first set …read more!