Firstly, the winner of the November/December 2010 Knitting and Crocheting Contest has been announced, with the crocheters beating the knitters 189 to 15! You can see some of the entries that were submitted here and view pictures of all of the entries at this link. Secondly, the January Craft-Along has been launched and will run …read more!

Tomorrow, Saturday, January 15th, join PotterCast and the Harry Potter Alliance for the live charity event for the raffle of the complete set of signed Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling. Starting at 2pm EST, the LiveStream event via this link will feature our own PotterCasters, the HPA’s Andrew Slack; and more surprise guests …read more!

As you may have seen (and if you haven’t, well now you know!) this month’s craft-along is about Taking Crafty Resolutions¦ And Keeping Them! It should be fun to see what people have resolved to doing in 2011, and encourage them to keep those resolutions although the year! That is¦ it will be fun for …read more!

The Lumos organization, featured in the previous post about the London Marathon, is a children’s charity founded by J.K. Rowling. Some of you may not have been familiar with this charity or its connection to Jo. In fact, J.K. Rowling is involved with several charity causes, and the Leakypedia has a draft page of about …read more!

We let you know at the end of October that Lumos, the children’s charity founded by J.K. Rowling, was looking for committed fundraisers to take one of its two Gold Bond places in the 2011 Virgin London Marathon. Leaky reader Kylie Peterson emailed in to let us know that she has been selected to run …read more!

Cho Chang, just the sound of her name, had me clicking her page on the Leakypedia earlier today. Unfortunately there was not much there to see. If you want 75 more MyLeaky points or perhaps to go to the ball with Cho Chang, contribute something nice to her Leakypedia page.

Actor news is still light on the ground. Firstly, the chaps behind the Facebook page for the musical “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying”, in which Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) will star this Spring, have added new photos of the Al Hirschfeld theatre marquee. The marquee features never-before-seen promotional photos of Radcliffe and …read more!

In honor of his recent birthday, I think some attention to Snape’s Leakypedia page is in order. While there is some info there already, it’s not the bravest page we ever knew. Now pretend that joke made sense, and if you want 75 points for helping out, go fill out further the Leakypedia page for …read more!

Refresh, Renew, Resolve A new year is upon us. 2011. The year of the release of the LAST Harry Potter Film. This brings with it a deep sadness for me, and also a resolution. This year I resolve to fall in love with this series all over again. I vow to read all of the …read more!

The calendar on Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling’s webstie has been updated for January 9th to make the birthdate of Severus Snape. Please join us at Leaky in wishing the bravest man Harry Potter ever knew a great day.