TLC Reader Connie let us know about a new interview with Sean Biggerstaff, who played Gryffindor Quidditch captian Oliver Wood in the first two Potter films. In this interview in the Edinburgh Evening News, the actor, who will be appearing in a new play opening Saturday, talks about not returning to the part in Azkaban …read more!

Empire Online caught up with Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) and Potter film producer David Heyman after this year’s BAFTA awards, and has a brief interview with them. David Heyman spoke about the changes in the next two films, and especially hightlighted the changes that will be evident in the fourth Potter film with new director …read more!

Toy Fair is taking place in New York city this weekend. This is a huge event where the toy industry reveals their new products for this year. Warner Brothers has sent out a press release about their movie tie-in products to be shown at Toy Fair, and had this to say about the Goblet of …read more!

We’ve been tidying up behind the scenes here on Leaky and you’ll notice a few changes (for those of you on the text-only version of the site, come to the main page to see everything. All of this will be made text-version-available in the near future). So let’s do a quick tour. 1. First, look …read more!

The Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban film has won two awards from the Visual Effects Society. The third Potter film won in the category of “Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture” for the Azkaban effects team of Roger Guyett, Tim Burke, Theresa Corrao, and Emma Norton. The second win …read more!

Maggie Smith (Professor McGonagall) will be lending her acting skills to help raise money for the victims of the tsunami disaster. Dame Maggie Smith will join Dames Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Helen Mirren, Eileen Atkins and Diana Rigg, along with Sir Antony Sher for an evening of music, drama, and comedy in a charity event …read more!

Today actress Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley) is celebrating her 14th birthday. Happy Birthday Bonnie!

A while ago Amazon.com had a glitch in which users subscribed to be notified when HBPwent on sale got an email suggesting the book would be very delayed; the company later apologized in a very funny and Potteresque way. It seems the same happened with Amazon.co.uk today – readers have been getting the exact same …read more!

Italian magazine La Gazzetta de Maghi e delle Streghe (‘The Gazette of Mages and Witches,’ says my rusty Italian), carried a story in its February edition that said that there were to be a new James and Lily Potter in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, actors Romola Garai and Christien Anholt – WB …read more!

Click here to see a hires version of the recently scanned image of Harry with the golden egg in Goblet of Fire.