More scans have surfaced tonight, these from the US 2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince wall calendar. Most we have seen in one form or another previously, but of note is a new photo montage of Ron as Gryffindor Keeper, with the words “You can Score, Gryffindor” and Cormac McLaggen and team standing in …read more!

Earlier this month we told you that the US paperback edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows would be published by Scholastic on July 7, 2009. A high res photo of the cover for the book is available here in our image galleries, with the cover the same as the hardback edition of book …read more!

As noted last week on her official website, actress Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) is in Paris, France for the Spring/Summer fashion week. Today she attended the Christian Dior showing, and you can see new photos of Emma at this event here in our image galleries.

It’s Banned Books Week, a special time for us at Leaky as Harry Potter fans, as for most of the last decade Harry has been among the most challenged books published. It remains one of the most opposed stories in history, and shares company with Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged …read more!

MTV has a new article online, featuring new photos and a new interview with actor Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) regarding “Cherrybomb.” In the piece, Rupert discusses taking on the role in the film he just wrapped, saying of the part ”… I’m playing such a cool, different character that I’ve never done before. It’s nice …read more!

I’ve neglected this blog for way too long. My apologies. I have no excuse. *head hangs down in shame* But, I’m here now and the next name I venturing into is “Arthur”. The name “Arthur” is Gaelic in orgin, but they don’t know what the name really means. They broke it down to just “art” …read more!

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. (p 358 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Bloomsbury paperback) Happy Banned Books Week! I’ve got to admit that, living so far away from the USA, I don’t quite know how this whole deal works, and I don’t …read more!

As my children grow older, I seem to spend more and more time on the go. Football games, baseball games, school plays, band festivals, church functions – you name it, my two boys are probably involved in it. It’s all too easy to, along the way, lose sight of just who and what I am. …read more!

“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.” -Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas Just a reminder that if you would like to have your Banned Book blog/vlog featured on my blog tomorrow please get those links …read more!

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. ~Sigmund Freud, 1933 To celebrate “Banned Book Week” today I’d like to ask you to read a challenged book in public. Express your right to read at home, school, church or any other …read more!