LeakyCon 2017 is fast approaching, and before we know it we’ll be in Dublin watching Harry and The Potters, Potter Puppet Pals, Team Starkid and many more do their thing onstage! We’re bringing you a detailed summary of what we know so far and what to expect at the convention: Special guest appearances include (with more to …read more!

Leaky reported in April that Bloomsbury and Scholastic are set to release an updated, definitive edition of the Cursed Child script July 25. That’s just around the corner! To promote the Official Playscript of the Original West End Production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Pottermore teased fans with exclusive excerpts from one of …read more!

We’ve seen dinner in the Great Hall, and now Warner Bros Studio Tour in London are offering the chance to enjoy your summer morning with a breakfast in the iconic set! Remember seeing wizard cereals in the Harry Potter films, such as Cheeri-Owls and Pixie Puffs? Well they’ll be on offer along with breakfast canapés, pastries, …read more!

Some fantastic beasts may deny that they strut, and claim that their fathers are being unfairly maligned as strutters, too, but thanks to Pottermore’s new reveal we now have good evidence that some of them do indeed strut, and likely so did their fathers. Pottermore has shared an exclusive glimpse of the new illustrated edition of …read more!

This week’s theater round-up kicks off the with exciting–but not surprising!–news that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has won yet another award. The production has already racked up honors at The Stage Awards, the Critics’ Circle Awards, the WhatsOnStage Awards, and recording-breaking achievements at the Oliver Awards. And now Cursed Child has been announced …read more!

CNN just aired J.K. Rowling’s exclusive interview with Christine Amanpour, on her children’s charity LUMOS, dedicated to ending the institutionalisation of children across the world. ***UPDATE: Watch the full interview at the end of this article!*** During this interview, Rowling revealed that she wrote the ‘political fairytale’ she teased years ago – on her 50th birthday party dress (the party …read more!

Fans will remember J.K. Rowling mentioning writing a ‘political fairytale’ a few years back. Whilst we’ve been spoiled with special additions to the story such as Fantastic Beasts and Cursed Child in the meantime, we weren’t expecting this announcement in an early release of the CNN interview transcript. J.K. Rowling revealed to Christiane Amanpour that she finished the fairytale, …read more!

Fiona Shaw, the talented Irish actress known to the Potter fandom as Harry’s Aunt Petunia Dursley, celebrates her 59th birthday today. Most fans are likely not fond of the stony and anxious matron who was continually cruel to our protagonist, but admittedly, Shaw’s portrayal of the character was brilliantly believable. Shaw herself has said that …read more!

Next month, the British Film Institute in London are set to host a TV preview event for Strike: The Cuckoo’s Calling! The preview of the first episode of the TV adaptation of Robert Galbraith/J.K. Rowling’s crime-thriller will be followed by a discussion with lead actors Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger, director Michael Keillor, writer Ben Richards …read more!

This week has seen been news in the Potter world as production began on the Fantastic Beasts sequel, and we prepare for an interview on CNN with J.K. Rowling on Monday. Our weekly round-up brings news from Evanna Lynch’s iAnimal campaign and a Disco Pigs interview and new promos from Toby Jones, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Gambon, Jason Isaacs and David Bradley. …read more!