All checks and money (postal) orders should be made to Leaky, Inc. – sorry for not clarifying that before!

Over the past few weeks, there have been rumors flying that JKR had a cameo in CoS, thanks to a posting saying so on IMDB. We checked with our sources and they confirmed that not only did JKR not have a cameo in CoS, she may not have even visited the set at all – …read more!

We will be ready to begin accepting donations tomorrow, Tuesday, December 3, 2002. You technically can do PayPal now, but we ask you not to yet, because we have to add a checking account to the account to get our donation limit lifted, and that is the last puzzle piece we are waiting for. That …read more!

From The New York Post comes this article on Gary Gero, who provided the animals which portray Fang and Mrs. Norris in Chamber of Secrets.

In a rarely-seen reclamation of the top spot on the box office charts, CoS found itself in the lead over Die Another Day in the three-day weekend box office battle here in the US, although the Bond film did make a few dollars more in the Wednesday – Sunday calculations. Of course, what gets forgotten …read more!

Joe and others have sent us a link to Sotheby’s website where they have a partial image of the famed Index Card.

Hi guys! So – we’re back up (much thanks to The Wizard World for posting a notice). We’ve also got the breakdown on what’s going to happen with the auction. We cannot solicit yet, because doing this has involved a hell of a lot of bureaucracy. We’re wrapped up in so much red tape right …read more!

in PopPolitics, Eliza T. Dresang, a professor in the School of Information Studies at Florida State University, and an expert on — and a fan of — the Harry Potter series, is interviewed about two of her recently published scholarly pieces about the Harry Potter books. She also mentions that she’s going to present at …read more!

Newsround has put up a transcript of the Thursday afternoon interview session with Tom Felton, Shirley Henderson, Bonnie Wright and Christian Coulson. They’ve also uploaded snapshots from the webchat session – all sorts of things we didn’t see in the chat itself! Thanks, Newsround, from all the people who’ve emailed us asking for transcripts!

Columnist Philip Howard’s opinion article details the parallels and connections between literary heroes past and present. Quotage: The owl as a wise bird of passage and message, the whomping willow tree that attacks humans, the cloak of invisibility: they are all thick with allusions as old as literature. Harry Potter has precedent for drawing a …read more!