Today marks the 80th birthday of Jim Dale – narrator of the U.S. Harry Potter audiobooks, video games and interactive ‘extras’ in the DVDs. Dale also appears in the Carry On films, Pete’s Dragon and has won various awards, including a Tony Award (for Barnum on Broadway), two Grammy Awards for narrating (in 2008 and 2001) and ten Audie …read more!

The BBC’s radio programme Witness have released an episode interviewing Barry Cunningham, the man who decided to take on the Harry Potter book series, on the creation of a phenomenon that would spread the globe. BBC News said: ‘The Harry Potter series has sold 450 million copies worldwide to date. But before the first book was …read more!

Today the Harry Potter world celebrates Ginny (Weasley) Potter’s birthday. Ginny has come along way since her first year at Hogwarts, when she accidentally fell into the hands of Voldemort. She is brave, strong, witty, and an excellent Quidditch Player. One could not imagine a better match for her than Harry. As an extremely gifted …read more!

Recently, J.K. Rowling took to Twitter to give us the news that there will not be a Harry Potter TV show, nor will there be a ‘Potter-on-Ice’. But rather than crushing our dreams (well, it did a little, if we’re honest), the hilarious ‘image of Ice Voldemort performing the triple salchow’ perfectly depicts Jo’s mastery …read more!

Vogue has released a new video, featuring Emma Watson. The video accompany’s the recent interview Vogue conducted with Emma, as their cover girl for the UK September issue. In the video, Emma talks about her HeForShe initiative and asks members of the fashion industry questions about gender equality within their field of work.

With filming set to begin within a month or so for Fantastic Beasts, sets are starting to pop up around Leavesden Studios in London. Large out door sets. As the storyline is based in New York but filming is set to take place in London, can only reasonably guess that these sets are for the Fantastic …read more!

Comingsoon.net reports that Irish actress Jenn Murray has joined the cast of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and is set to take a key role within the production. According to the information of Comingsoon.net Ezra Miller, who will play Scamander’s rival, is set to share some scenes with Murray’s yet unnamed character. Alongside Jenn Murray, the …read more!

On July 18th, RadioTimes reported that an estimated 14,000 girls aged between eight and 12 stayed in line for hours to audition for the role of Modesty. One of our own Leaky editors was there to report on the event. Now Warner Bros. has revealed to BBC Newsround the results of the Open Casting for Fantastic Beasts …read more!

The cast of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them gains a new star as Colin Farrell, the star of HBO’s True Detective, joins the cast. Hollywood Reporter states: “Farrell will play Graves, a wizard that Newt Scamander (Redmayne) meets in New York. The story centers on Newt’s adventures in the secret community of witches and wizards as he attempts to …read more!

Forget broomsticks, apparition, the Floo Network, Thestrals, fly motorbikes with rickety sidecars, or flushing yourself down a toilet. A concept artist from Mashable has designed a wizarding world themed subway (tube) map of London–just incase wizards wanted to mind the gap, and crowd in with all of us muggle commuters. The map itself is actually …read more!