The winners for Leaky’s March contest have been announced. The challenge was to write the history of a special friendship and envision how one dynamic duo of witch/wizard and their creature companion met. Congratulations to the following winners: First place: Neville/Trevor by zonkoltdSecond place: Percy/Scabbers by HawthornTonksThird place: Hagrid/Fang by Laine Slater As a reminder, …read more!

Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood) has recently spoken to ET Online about the experience of visiting the Warner Bros. Studio Tour: ETOnline: Was it strange to walk back onto the Harry Potter sets for the first time in a few years? Evanna Lynch: Yes — and that’s what’s different about this. There’s already a theme park …read more!

The Pottermore Insider is reporting that the Harry Potter e-books are now available in French, Italian, German, and Spanish for purchase at the Pottermore Shop. The Pottermore site itself is likewise available in all of those languages.

The International Quidditch Association is holding a Quidditch tournament on the Harvard University soccer field on April 28th. This event is running in concert with the opening of the Boston Cannons lacrosse game which will be held later in the evening: The tournament will feature the most intense athletic competition Quidditch has ever seen, and …read more!

On J. K. Rowling’s new website, Ms. Rowling confirms that the Harry Potter Encyclopedia is still in the works on the FAQ section of the site: For a long time I have been promising an encyclopaedia of Harry’s world, and I have started work on this now ’ some of it forms the new content …read more!

Two lovely ladies named Emma are celebrating their birthdays today! Please join Leaky in wishing Emma Thompson (Professor Trelawney) and Emma Watson a very happy birthday!

Starkid’s newest musical, “Holy Musical, B@man,” is now available to watch on YouTube. You can read Leaky’s preview of the musical here. Many thanks to Max for the tip!

We now have the first image of Bonnie Wright in her upcoming film “The Philosophers” which can be seen here in our galleries. Both Bonnie Wright and Tom Felton have recently become involved in charity work. Wright has a Twitter account for the Live Below the Line charity which “is a campaign that’s changing the …read more!

Pottermore, J. K. Rowling’s online Harry Potter experience, is now open to all wishing to join in on the experience. The change was made early this morning in the UK and is indicated on the official website with the question “Are you magical?” Users may sign up now, while actual invitations should start arriving– care …read more!

Hold on to your hats, people: the publisher Little, Brown has just put out a press release giving us the title of JK Rowling’s new book¦ The Casual Vacancy! The book will be out on the 27th September 2012 (worldwide release date) and Little, Brown also provided a plot summary: When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly …read more!