Update: The hi-res version of the USA artwork, with art by Mary Grandpre, is right here in our galleries and the UK cover right here! Today, on J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter’s birthdays, JKR has announced that her children’s charity, Children’s High Level Group, will publish The Tales of Beedle the Bard on December 4, …read more!

Ah, what a beautiful day. The sun is shining, the butterflies are chasing each other, and I bet the sea is just the right temperature for swimming right now. Soooo¦ why am I sitting here writing this? Well, it’s for my Leaky blog! Which I am so excited to be writing! I hope that this …read more!

Today, on J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter’s birthdays, JKR has announced that her children’s charity, Children’s High Level Group, will publish The Tales of Beedle the Bard on December 4, in an exclusive deal with Bloomsbury, Scholastic and Amazon. (You can pre-order from Amazon now.) Pre-order now through our Cauldron Shop: collector’s edition, standard edition. …read more!

The clock is now ticking down to mere hours left until the submission deadline is reached for the August issue of Quibbler and I thought I’d give you an insight into my writing process as, believe it or not, I haven’t finished my article yet. Yes that’s right I’m riding it down to the wire …read more!

Just stepping into the average Harry potter forum and finding a thread about the Marauders is all the proof you need that we have got extremley firm sterotypes over these for men even though we don’t know an exceptional lot about them. I know this might sound pedantic, but I really think that we obtained …read more!

Hmm… What can we get from the name “Neville Longbottom”? I thought there’d be more, but no. There’s not much out there. The name “Neville” comes from a surname, and of course can be used as a forename. It means “New Town” in Norman French. “Longbottom” is from Middle English and can be broken down. …read more!

PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast is coming to you live from Boston, MA, the site of next year’s LeakyCon conference, for an new episode full of talk before the premiere of the “Half-Blood Prince” teaser trailer. As a reminder, tonight’s live PotterCast set for Providence, RI, will feature fresh reaction of the HBP teaser trailer. …read more!

Presenting the first part of Leaky’s Half-Blood Prince set report! I visited the set back in January and now that the trailer is out can share a bit about it with you: read about the romance in the films, the way the sets are ever-growing and expanding; the new props, paraphernalia and costumes; and cast …read more!

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MTV has two new articles online relating to the recently released teaser trailer for “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” In the first article, actor Rupert Grint says that while he has not yet seen the new trailer, he is looking forward to watching it, especially as it contains a quick glimpse of Ron and …read more!