It was announced today that Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has won the highest honor from the Jim Henson company. These awards, in their inaugural year, are going to persons who most reflect” the core values and philosophy of Jim Henson and the company he founded in1955.” Jim Henson is known world wide as the …read more!

We’ve told you about the phenomenal sales of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Well, those numbers are climbing even higher! The Sofia News Agancy reports that nearly 300,000 copies of the six Harry Potter novels have sold in Bulgaria so far. In addition, HBP goes on sale in Israel tomorrow. Haaretz.com reports that the …read more!

USA Today has a new interview with Ralph Fiennes, in which he discusses staying under the tabloid radar, participating in a United Nations food drop, and playing Lord Voldemort. Besides talking about the way the character looks in Goblet of Fire, Mr. Fiennes confirms that he “will be doing the fifth Potter movie in the …read more!

Andy, from Harry Potter Fan Zone, let us know about a new interview published in K- Zone magazine with actor Daniel Radcliffe. While alot of this information about his experience on Goblet of Fire we have heard in some fashion previously, and there was this funny bit (kidding around) about Rupert Grint’s newest project: KZ: …read more!

Previously, we told you about the Belen Public Library in New Mexico conducting a raffle for their copy of one of the Half-Blood Prince books signed by author J.K. Rowling in order to help fund an addition to their library. The winner was Katherine Williams of Albuquerque, and her son sent us in some photos …read more!

Earlier this summer we told you about the fiasco that took place in England where two men stole early copies of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from a printing facility and then tried to sell them to the tabloid newspaper The Sun. While there was gunplay involved in this caper, no one was injured …read more!

PotterCast #18 – the much-anticipated, much-appreciated, muchly-syncopated special Holiday Filkcast Edition is up and available for download! You all have been sending us your song parodies for two weeks, and they’re awesome – and the episode includes some surprises, too. 🙂 Track Listing: The PotterCast Song – Guru of Sloth The Christmas Filk Song – …read more!

Hey all; a lot of you noticed that we experienced some down time last night. There’s a lot going on backstage at Leaky right now, so we appreciate your patience. Not only did we upgrade our content management system, but we are about to install our third server, named Snuffles! The slow Leaky days are …read more!

Happy Harry Holidays Everyone! Our favorite author has been sprucing up her website to reflect a more festive holiday spirit. Enjoy!

Entertianment Weekly magazine’s “Best of 2005” poll has closed. The results will be published in EW’s end of year issue, but are now available online. Harry has trounced the competition in two categories! Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was voted Best New Novel of the Year with a whopping 80% of the 52,298 votes …read more!