There are only nine days left to take part in the Accio Books Fundraiser, the HP Alliance’s annual book drive which has donated over 50,000 books to date. As readers will recall, the HPA aims to build an entire library of books in partnership with the Bedford-Stuyvesant New Beginnings Charter School (BSNBCS) in Brooklyn, NY …read more!

As readers will recall, Harry Potter actor Dan Radcliffe is currently on stage in the Broadway revival of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.” News comes now that the cast of the musical will be releasing a soundtrack of songs from the show on May 24 (on iTunes) and on June 7 in …read more!

The official “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: The Videogames” Facebook page posted the teaser trailer for EA’s “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” video game with an introduction from Emma Watson (Hermione Granger). You can watch it at this link or below: Update: In addition to the above trailer, the official website …read more!

Reuters is reporting extremely strong sales for the “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” DVD, which was released last week and debuted at the top of Nielsen Videoscan’s chart for the week ending 17th April after only three days of sales. The chart also shows the other six films in the series in …read more!

Scorched stone walls, rubble-strewn corridors, and bruised and battered students were common sights on the set of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” set during Leaky’s visit to Leavesden Studios last spring.Our full set visit report will be online soon, so stick close to Leaky for everything “Deathly Hallows: Part 2” in the …read more!

Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling has written for the Writer’s Guild’s Written by magazine about her collaborative relationship with “Potter” Film screenwriter Steve Kloves for their April/May issue. The full piece, which can be read in its entirety via this link, details the 12-year-long “email correspondence” which resulted in seven adapted screenplays of Ms. …read more!

There’s a pretty hilarious article going around from the Daily Mail that posits that J.K. Rowling is building Hagrid’s Hut in the yard of her Edinburgh home. It claims the author is constructing a “lodge” that will sit at the bottom of her gardens that will mirror the hut we’ve seen in the films, with …read more!

EW has released a series of beautiful, high-res versions of the new images from “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” film, featured in this week’s Potter-packed issue. These images are now part of our DH:2 section of our Image Galleries right here. Enjoy!

To celebrate last week’s DVD and Blu Ray release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1”, Digital Spy has the first five minutes of the film on its website for your viewing pleasure. Watch via this link. Thanks to Digital Spy for the heads up!

Please join us at Leaky in wishing David Tennant a very happy birthday. The actor, who played Barty Crouch Jr. in “Goblet of Fire”, turns 40 today! Many happy returns!