About a year ago, not all that long after the release of Deathly Hallows, I was on a four-hour bus ride, in the dark, just listening to my iPod, when one of the songs on my playlist suddenly grabbed me. It was “Till it Happens to You” by the beautiful Corinne Bailey Rae. I knew …read more!

As it is now October, a slight crispness in the air signals that Halloween is almost upon us. In order to get in the spirit of the holiday, our Leaky Contest Crew has paired up with our Crafty Witches and has come up with a new contest which we are launching today. The Harry Potter …read more!

Art Insights Gallery, which regularly features exclusive prints of Potter-related art, has released more exclusive book-related art this week. Two book covers and a special Priori Incantatem drawing are being offered for sale for the first time as fine art prints, and they are being exclusively previewed here on Leaky. The two covers consist of …read more!

« Back to Contests Harry Potter Costume Contest The Leaky Cauldron’s Contest Team and the Crafty Witches have teamed up to bring you this month’s contest theme, Costuming, just in time for Halloween and the various Yule Balls one might attend at year’s end. Since the rise of the Harry Potter series in popularity, Costuming …read more!

Thanks to our Order partner Rupert Grint.net, we have a host of high res images from the newly released UK Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince sticker book to show you. Of interest is a new image from the cave scene with Dumbledore and Harry, as well as a new look at the Horcruxes of …read more!

Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling is once again atop a list from Forbes.com. The online version of the financial magazine just released their annual ranking of The World’s Best Paid Authors, with the Harry Potter author being ranked at the top of the list. Tracking the time period between June 1, 2007, and June …read more!

Earlier this week, our Melissa posted a reminder that this week is Banned Book Week here in the US. This is an issue near and dear to all of us here at Leaky, and many of us are meeting this week by reading and reflecting on those books that have been banned or challenged. Thanks …read more!

There is an article online from the Daily Record which reports that a ‘10-ton Cossar flat bed web newspaper press’ is set to be replicated for the “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” film. The paper reports, press owner David Phillips was approached by film producers to help develop a replica of the 100-year-old printing …read more!

It is back to the regular format of PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast this week for our 167th episode of Harry Potter news, discussion, and more. Sue opens up this episode with the latest in Harry Potter news, including updates on a number of the Harry Potter cast, the city of Edinburgh honoring Jo Rowling, …read more!

Scholastic, the US publishers of the Harry Potter novels, have released some new artwork for the paperback of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Thanks to TLC reader Beth, we can now see a scan of the new cover art that shows Hagrid, Ollivander and Harry. This paperback edition of the first Harry Potter novel …read more!