Insight Editions has done it again. Their latest effort to keep us entertained with fun books about the Wizarding World is a delightful fold-out journey from Platform 9 ¾ to Hogwarts and on to Honeydukes. It’s not a book so much as a folder with pockets that contain paper artefacts you can take out and …read more!

The Harry Potter Alliance recently hosted multi-day streaming event Fall Into Democracy to help mobilize and educate people before Election Day in the U.S., and the organisation just launched a collection of new resources to help get Potterheads to the polls come November 3rd, all themed around the brightest witch of her age, Hermione Granger! …read more!

In recent months, Insight Editions has been charming us with a delightful collection of books that highlight different aspects of the Wizarding World, such as wands, knitting, Diagon Alley (forthcoming pop-up), and Christmas at Hogwarts, as well as a colouring book. They have more new releases coming in the run up to the holiday season, …read more!

A group of pro-trans rights Harry Potter fans and artists came together to create an extra special project for National Coming Out Day (officially celebrated on October 11th): a wrock compilation titled Transfiguration: A Wrock Comp for Trans Rights. Made by three trans and gender-nonconforming long-time Harry Potter fans (CG Matovina (25), Jami Schafer (26) …read more!

The live bats are flapping around the ceiling of the Great Hall, garden-shed sized pumpkins loom in the corridors, and Peeves’ pandemonium is even more outrageous than usual… October has come to Hogwarts and The Leaky Cauldron!  Halloween may be on the 31st day of this glorious autumnal month, but like the witches, wizards, and …read more!

If you haven’t yet entered our giveaway for the latest Harry Potter-themed colouring book, Harry Potter: Coloring Wizardry, you still have time through Sunday, October 18, and we have another book to give away to another lucky reader: Harry Potter: Christmas at Hogwarts: Magical Movie Moments. We reviewed this new book in September, and gave …read more!

Last month we gave our readers an opportunity to have a shifty at some of the pages inside a new Harry Potter colouring book and now, courtesy of the generosity of Insight Editions, we are giving away a copy of Harry Potter: Coloring Wizardry to one lucky fan. So what do you need to do …read more!

Election Day is coming up fast in the U.S., and The Harry Potter Alliance are doing all they can to ensure people are heard. During such a pivotal time in global and national politics, it’s crucial that people turn out to vote, so here are a few initiatives you can get involved in before November …read more!

Here at The Leaky Cauldron, we believe in the power and magic of community, and have always loved hearing from people who have made the Harry Potter fandom such a joy for the past two decades. Our new, regular fan profile column will aim to highlight the people of the Harry Potter fandom: their passions, …read more!

Well, not literally. A bronze statue of Daniel Radcliffe as Harry, playing Quidditch in a scene from the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, will join the other statues in Leicester Square’s “Scenes in the Square” exhibit later this month. Other films icons in the statue trail include Laurel & Hardy, Bugs Bunny, Gene Kelly …read more!