Yes, I know. No REAL, consistant updates to the site in over a month. My sincere apologies. Feel free to patronize Harry Potter Galleries while I get my act together. I’m unemployed at the moment and I’ve also been sucked into monitoring this Chinese vs. US hacker incident for the week. However, that site is …read more!

According to lots of news at Harry Potter Galleries J.K. Rowling confirmed in a BBC Newsround interview that Crookshanks is part Kneazle. What’s that? Read “Fantastic Beasts and where to find them” or check out Harry Potter galleries for more details. More news to come.

An extremely dedicated fan of The Leaky Cauldron mailed us the Gloucester Today article. Coming soon, the full photo layout and text of the article. Here’s a teaser:

Ms. Rowling has been very busy this week – she also helped open The Stuart Centre for MS (multiple sclerosis), a disease that contributed to the death of her mother and visited with those diagnosed with the disease.

A Letter to the Editor of the Wilmington Morning Star has a message for parents who don’t want Harry Potter in school libraries.

Harry Potter Galleries has posted REAL collectible cards for the Chocolate Frogs as mentioned in the Harry Potter book series – not the crappy Harry Potter character cards being sold by Warner Bros. with their Chocolate Frogs.

Someone emailed us this item from the Greensboro News Record Police Blotter: A teacher at Asheboro’s McCrary School reported the theft of an AM/ FM cassette/CD player, calculator and Harry Potter cassette. The items, worth $210, were taken from the 400 Ross St. school about3 p.m. Tuesday.

A reader emailed us an article from the London Evening Standard about John Hurt -confirmation of his casting as Mr. Ollivander: Hurt has two children, 11 and eight, just the right age to take out of school and fly over to the set of the Harry Potter movie for a day, which he recently did. …read more!

J.K. Rowling is also nominated for a Hugo Award (in the Novel category) for Goblet of Fire.

J.K. Rowling wins a WH Smith book prize for “book of the year” for Goblet of Fire.