Let’s raise a glass to Dame Maggie Smith (Professor McGonagall), who today celebrates her 75th birthday. Many happy returns, Dame Maggie!

Shhhh! Don’t tell anyone.. but it’s a pretty big day today. She may not want to make a big fuss and hope everyone’s still distracted with their relatives and after Christmas sales to notice… But today is a day worth smiling about, as it is now only two weeks until droves of Harry Potter migrate …read more!

Shhhh! Don’t tell anyone.. but it’s a pretty big day today. She may not want to make a big fuss and hope everyone’s still distracted with their relatives and after Christmas sales to notice… But today is a day worth smiling about, as it is now only two weeks until droves of Harry Potter migrate …read more!

Shhhh! Don’t tell anyone.. but it’s a pretty big day today. She may not want to make a big fuss and hope everyone’s still distracted with their relatives and after Christmas sales to notice… But today is a day worth smiling about, as it is now only two weeks until droves of Harry Potter migrate …read more!

As newspapers continue to take stock of this past decade, the books and films of the Harry Potter series make an appearance on a number of new end of the year lists. First, the Globe and Mail names the seventh book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, their Book of the Decade. The Canadian newspaper …read more!

From our Leaky family to yours, as we had into Leaky’s 10th year online, we hope you have the most wonderful and blessed of holidays!

PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast, has its holiday episode online, just in time for Christmas. Our 211th episode starts off with the latest in Potter news, including a preview of the One Day in the Life of Daniel Radcliffe book from photographer Tim Hailand, a teaser of the Harry Potter LEGO game, a report from …read more!

Novels from the Harry Potter series by author J. K. Rowling have been included in six of the ten spots on USA Today’s list of the Top Ten Books of the 2000s. Miss Rowling’s novels placed along side the popular Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer and the Dan Brown novel The Da Vinci Code on …read more!

(Hi guys, Melissa here: Just a quick note that we hope you’ll join us in welcoming Rosi Halse, our newest News Editor, as she makes her first post on Leaky. Rosi is a longtime Leaky reader, prominent vlogger, university student and longtime Harry Potter fan. We are thrilled to have her and hope you are …read more!

In a fun nod to the house from the Harry Potter series, The Telegraph reports that students at Oxford University’s Magdalen College have changed the name of their Junior Common Room to Gryffindor House. The article, which can be read at this link, suggests more Harry Potter related name changes are to follow if students …read more!