Literally the words out of a fellow diner’s mouth at my favourite restaurant in Los Angeles. “Gaza Shmaza”. And then, he proceeded to explain this strange phrase to his very uncomfortable looking date, by saying something along the lines of, what’s happening in Gaza is so far away, it doesn’t really affect us here. Doesn’t …read more!

Thanks to Pottermania for letting us know about a trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince that is running in Japan, that contains many new images from the upcoming film. You can see new stills of this trailer via this link, including a remarkable look at Snape on the Astronomy tower, wand at hand, …read more!

Applications for submitting exhibits and/or programming to Leaky Con 09! Yup! That link is where you can submit presentations, tutorials, or your wonderful talented work for the FAcrafts room. However, submissions close at the end of the month so please make sure you get your ideas for exhibits submitted before the deadline! The work itself …read more!

Applications for submitting exhibits and/or programming to Leaky Con 09! Yup! That link is where you can submit presentations, tutorials, or your wonderful talented work for the FAcrafts room. However, submissions close at the end of the month so please make sure you get your ideas for exhibits submitted before the deadline! The work itself …read more!

Dark Lord Voldemort has made the top ten list of ‘scariest villains in children’s literature’ according to a report in the Scotsman. The paper details the results of a new list from the Penguin Group, which polled 600 readers, asking them to rank the literary characters they most feared. Coming in at number six, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named …read more!

Hi, long time no see ^_- I was busy Busy? *looks skeptical* Been gone long enough.Yeah, well had things to do so… So nothing, about time you got back here! *gets crafty glue gun and makes sure blog can’t take off again* Hey, that’s not fair *grins* Yeah, I know. Ok, now that that’s all …read more!

Hi, long time no see ^_- I was busy Busy? *looks skeptical* Been gone long enough.Yeah, well had things to do so… So nothing, about time you got back here! *gets crafty glue gun and makes sure blog can’t take off again* Hey, that’s not fair *grins* Yeah, I know. Ok, now that that’s all …read more!

Bloomsbury (whose Beedle the Bard page is here) has updated their YouTube channel today with a video of Jo answering questions asked by children at the Beedle release party (originally reported by Leaky here), about whether her teachers knew she was a good story writer (not sure but it was her favorite subject; least was …read more!

This July 17, MuggleCast and PotterCast will be joining forces once more for, seriously, the nuttiest thing we’ve ever done: A live LeakyMug at 3 a.m. Why would we do this? Because we’ll all be just returning from a midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and what better time to talk about …read more!

Hey gang: Tonight we invite you to special live PotterCast 181 recording (which will not have Nargles this time, we hope). We have a lot of news to discuss, and then you’ll be present for the recording of three canon conundrums about Severus Snape. It starts at 7 p.m. EST. You can listen in or …read more!