As you know, tonight at 5pm EST the entire LeakyLounge will shut down save for one area that will serve as a main discussion group until our moderators have had a chance to read the book and prevent people from getting spoiled. Our comments have been disabled for some time now because of traffic, but …read more!

JKRowling.com has updated her FAQ Poll at long last. The long sought out answer to how the Order of the Phoenix communicates with each other is now posted. CHECK IT OUT!

All this week NBC’s Today Show has been featuring Harry Potter. Today they featured the winners of the Total Trivia where the four lucky winners and their parents competed in a quiz contest. The video is now online and you can see it here ( at link scroll down to where it says ” How …read more!

Many Leaky readers have forwarded us links to reports that Pope Benedict disapproves of the Harry Potter series, based on two 2003 letters supposedly authored by Pope Benedict (then Cardinal Ratzinger) to German Gabriele Kuby, author of Harry Potter – Gut Oder Böse (Harry Potter – Good or Evil). From one letter: It is good …read more!

Scholastic has a fun thing up now on their Harry Potter website. There is a magnifying glass that you can use to get a closer look at the entire cover for the Deluxe Edition of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Check it out!

The Baltimore Sun has written a very good profile about the editor of the US editions of the Harry Potter books, Arthur Levine. The story of how he bought the U.S. rights to the books for quite a bargin is mentioned, but the items of interest are about his working relationship with author JKRowling of …read more!

Each day in our forum, we have been posting a special new poll of the day until release day. Today, it was this editor’s turn, and thus we have a silly David Letterman style poll of “Top Ten Things You Want to see in Book 6“…err maybe 😉 Enjoy! Yesterday’s poll of where Harry Should …read more!

Forbes.com has a set of three Harry Potter-themed articles in their current issue. Harry Potter And The Vanishing Brand Magic explores forecasting and sales issues at Scholastic, Wizard Rock profiles Harry & the Potters, and links to one of their songs, and Will The Real Harry Potter Stand Up profiles a Washington attorney named Harold …read more!

UK Potter publishers Bloomsbury have just announced their plans to post on their website video and still photos from the midnight Half-Blood Prince release party in Edinburgh. Still photos from the event will be posted on the Bloomsbury Harry Potter website at 9am Saturday morning. They will also post two very short video clips from …read more!

With the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince so close now, the USA Today newspaper has a feature section up all about the boy wizard and the books. There are numerous articles included in this feature, which you can see here. Our own managing editor Melissa Anelli was interviewed about the hidden clues …read more!