Previously we told you actress Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley) would be appearing at the Pure Fashion Exhibit in London, England in support of the Made by organization efforting improvement of the social and environmental aspects of fashion companies. TLC has now received a press release containing remarks from Bonnie (with many photos of Bonnie at …read more!

Minor casting news today as UK Casting Call Pro has been updated with several actors who have been cast as extras or ‘featured’ extras in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. Listed are: Elliott Francis: “Featured Slug Club Member”Grace Francis: “Gryffindor Club Member”Aaron Virdee: “Senior, Gryffindor” Louisa Warren: “Senior, Hufflepuff”Rayman Jilani: …read more!

Leaky’s Contest Crew has a new venture to bring you for the month of August: The Wizarding Postcard Contest. For this contest, we ask you to get your thinking caps on and create a postcard that a Harry Potter character would send while on vacation. Both an original image or photograph of the vacation destination …read more!

For those keeping score at home, the weekend box office totals are in for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Variety reports the film was second this week (behind “Funny People”) and took in “$17.7 million at 4,393” venues, making a 19 day total of “$255.5 million.The weekend take included $3.2 million from 166 Imax …read more!

Arriving in mailboxes and on newsstands everywhere is the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, with a full page honoring their Entertainer of the Month for July: Emma Watson! This comes as the magazine notes the financial success of the recent Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, not to mention her grace in handing a wardrobe …read more!

« Back to Contests Wizarding Postcard Contest ¦ Harry had no idea where Dumbledore went during the summer holidays. He amused himself for a moment, picturing Dumbledore, with his long silver beard, full-length wizard’s robes, and pointed hat, stretched out on a beach somewhere, rubbing suntan lotion onto his long crooked nose.” (p.21. GoF, 1st …read more!

The reading of the third book in author J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Ring series has now begun over in Jo’s Book Nook, Leaky’s non-Harry Potter book club. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is the final installment in the classic fantasy novel series by Mr. Tolkien, and …read more!

The latest issue of The Quibbler, Leaky’s publication that contains “all the news you won’t find anywhere else,” has now been published online for your reading pleasure. Hitting online newsstands on July 31st, this issue marks the birthdays of Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom and contains a number of stories on the current state of …read more!

For the month of August, our Crafty Witches have come together to create our latest crafting contest which asks you to create an item of clothing or prop from the recently released Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince film. The Crafty Half-Blood Prince Contest is accepting recreations and reproductions based on those props or costumes …read more!

We said yesterday that our birthday post wasn’t our official one: Nargles got into the system and stopped us from posting this last night, so it’s lucky we know none of you mind extending the birthday celebration for J.K. Rowling and Harry one extra day. In Leaky tradition… happy birthday, guys: