Lumos, the charity started by Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling supporting disadvantaged and institutionalised care in Eastern and Central Europe, has launched a campaign for International Children’s Day on June 1st to Light a Birthday Candle for Lumos. According to the press release, “the campaign will help to raise vital funds and awareness for …read more!

The follow-up to the popular LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 is well in development and scheduled to go on sale sometime between October and December 2011. Warner Bros. Interactive and developer TT Games also revealed that LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 will be available across the following eight platforms: Xbox 360, PS3, PSP, NGP, Wii, …read more!

Playbill is reporting that actor Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) and his co-stars from the Broadway musical “How to Succeed in Business…” have a few upcoming television appearances. Radcliffe and co-star John Larroquette will perform their musical number “Brotherhood of Man” on the Late Show with David Letterman on Thursday, May 19 which airs at 11:35 …read more!

Please join us at Leaky in wishing Miriam Margolyes a very happy birthday. The actress, who plays Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films, is celebrating her 70th birthday today. Many happy returns!

Fans of Harry Potter– as well as fans of the Harry Potter video games by EA– will have a chance to win a trip to EA’s studios in the United Kingdom to meet the development team behind the popular video games, and actor Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy). Announced today, the EA Reporter Contest for Harry …read more!

..but then, when are they not in trouble? Unfortunately, this winning caption was submitted anonymously through our Tumblr, so the winner cannot be credited or recognized. Whoever you are, though, great job! As you can see, we’re going a little old school with the next picture we want you to caption (seen at the top …read more!

Bloomsbury Publishing has launched a new poll to find out which Harry Potter characters fans would pick as their favorite via this link. Starting today, fans may pick from a list of forty characters which wizard, Muggle, or creature is their favorite character from throughout author J. K. Rowing’s series. Fans will also be able …read more!

Dan Radcliffe (Harry Potter) will be performing musical numbers from “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” this week on both “The Late Show with David Letterman” and “The View.” Radcliffe will appear on “The Late Show with David Letterman” this Thursday (May 19th) with the cast of “How to Succeed,” and he will …read more!

The calendar at J.K. Rowling’s official website has been updated to mark the birthday of Pomona Sprout. Please join us at Leaky in wishing Professor Sprout a very happy birthday!

Warner Bros. have kindly passed along a link to a Q&A session conducted last month with Paul Hemstreet, the Vice President of Special Features for Warner Brothers Home Video who has overseen the enhanced content for all of the Harry Potter film releases over the past decade. The Q&A mainly discusses the enhanced content on …read more!