Thanks to Universal Orlando Resort, there is news of a new website for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter now online featuring a number of new interactive features. Included among these features are: A first-person perspective, photo-realistic video of Hogsmeade and Hogwarts castle. The Wizarding World News, which will provide guests with information about The …read more!

Additional reports have now appeared online regarding previous rumors that the “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” films are set to be shown in 3D upon their theatrical release. Variety is reporting, as are a number of other reliable sources, that WB

This morning, NBC’s Today Show announced a brand new contest in correlation with the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park at Universal Orlando. The contest, open to US citizens “currently employed as a teacher of students between five (5) and eighteen (18) years of age in a U.S. school,” would allow for one class …read more!

Today we ask you to join us in wishing Warwick Davis a tremendously happy birthday. Davis, who plays Professor Flitwick in the Harry Potter films, is celebrating his 40th birthday. Many happy returns!

Early this morning in Los Angeles, the 82nd Annual Academy Award nominations were announced, and the “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” film received a nod for Best Cinematography. The sixth Potter film was nominated along side such other films in this category as “Avatar,” “The Hurt Locker,” “Inglourious Basterds,” and “The White Ribbon.”The telecast …read more!

1 year and 6 months. That’s 547 (548 if you round up) days without a blog from me on here. It has been weird without leaky, let me tell you… After I dropped from the staff list due to my decreased time and thus, unfortunately, interest, I found myself visiting leaky less and less as …read more!

There is a treat online this morning, for national commercial for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park set to air during the Super Bowl XLIV game has made its way online and can be watched via WalletPop.com. (Update: The video is now in our video galleries here.) As readers will recall, Universal Orlando …read more!

French Harry Potter fan site HarryPotterForever.fr has posted a select translation from the February issue of One Magazine, which features short interviews with actors Dan Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Emma Watson (Hermione Granger), and Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) about filming “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” In the article, Mr. Radcliffe speaks in regards to the …read more!

Yesterday, the Crafty Witches launched a brand new Craft-Along, this time inviting you to join them as they finish crafting all the WIPs (works in progress) or UFOs (unfinished objects) they have lying around. Dust off your unfinished Harry Potter-related craft projects, finish them and show them off on the Craft-Along thread at the Leaky …read more!

Our Crafty Witches and Wizard have chosen crafter hermione_jean_7 as February’s Featured Crafter of the Month. Hermione_jean_7 was nominated for her skills in quilting, knit and crochet. Some examples of her fine work include a Harry Potter quilt and a Gryffindor messenger bag. A short interview with hermione_jean_7 will be available on the Crafty Witches …read more!