The first full day of fundraising in the “Potter Fans for Katrina Victims” drive has brought in more than $2,600 in donations from generous Potter fans. We’re floored. Our list of participating sites is up here, to be updated daily. Please visit the sites who are helping out. All info about the drive and how …read more!

Brace yourself… For your err enjoyment, here is the newest addition to the Harry Potter Candy Collection, The Cockroach Cluster.

A portrait of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling was unveiled today at the National Portrait Gallery in London. CBBC Newsround reports that JKR’s portrait, painted by artist Stuart Pearson Wright, shows “JK sitting at a desk in a bare room, with a writing pad in front of her, along with three boiled eggs, to represent …read more!

Wow. Our “Potter Fans for Katrina Victims” drive has been up a mere couple of hours and the donations are already swelling past $1,000. You all are incredible. That’s all. For info on how to get involved, see this post. Our first list of participants will be posted shortly. Note: Thank you for your concern, …read more!

Listen/Subscribe / Call in/contact / Leave voicemail PotterCast Show #3 is up and available – on this show, Lori Damarell, otherwise known as Asphodel Wormwood, interviews LeakyLounge.com member kyrane, while on the modcast, we have an unprecedented three of our staff guys turn up. John Noe displays exactly why we trust his designing over his …read more!

We’ve been watching the mounting devastation Hurricane Katrina wreaked on the Gulf Coast here for a few weeks now, and we don’t feel as if that’s enough. We want to help, and feel as though our readers do, too. We’re happy to announce that we’ve joined up with MuggleNet for the “Potter Fans for Katrina …read more!

Listen/Subscribe / Call in/contact / Leave voicemail Thanks to our fantastic Transcription Elves, the transcript of PotterCast #2 is now up! The third edition of PotterCast, our Potter podcast, will be posted in time for your back-to-work commute on Tuesday. Stay tuned for new fan points of view, an indepth chat with a movie reporter …read more!

Entertainment Weekly lists the midnight release of Goblet of Fire in 2000 one of the entertainment’s top moments in the past 25 years. “A publishing phenomenon: Excited fans of every age line up…for a book!” HP shares the space with “Who Shot J.R.?” and the debut of Nintendo. Good stuff. The list will be used …read more!

In the Associated Press’s fall movie preview, GoF director Mike Newell talks about the anarchy of Hogwarts: “Aside from everything else, these are school stories,” Newell said. “In a middle-of-the-road English education, the teachers are embattled, the school is a very kind of anarchic place and a very funny place, as well. Where two sets …read more!

The Sunday Times of South Africa reported in August that the release of HBP shattered all previous records there, selling 40,000 copies in its first day. As of August 21 it had sold 65,000 copies, knocking Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code from its position as number one best seller.