The Scholastic Harry Potter website was updated today to mark the upcoming July 31st birthday of the boy who lived: Harry Potter. This new feature lets you write a special birthday message of up to 150 characters to Harry for all to see. You can check out this new feature in the activities section of …read more!

A slew of actors from the Harry Potter series were in attendance tonight at the European premiere of the newest Batman film, The Dark Knight. The event took place at Odeon Leicester Square in London, England and was host to the film’s cast along with many other actors including: Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood), Tom Felton …read more!

The Telegraph is reporting that the British film industry saw a jump in its 2007 global profits, thanks partially to the success of the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix film. New figures released by the UK Film Council show that a fifty percent jump from last year’s takings was seen in 2007 …read more!

The happiest of birthday wishes from TLC go out today to actor Jamie Waylett, who portrays the character of Vincent Crabbe in the Harry Potter films. The young actor is celebrating his 19th birthday today. Happy Birthday, Jamie! Cheers!

A year ago today, most of us were gulping down pages of Deathly Hallows. Some of us had waited 10 years for it, and though we were sad that the end was nigh we were too excited to fput down the book. We wondered what Harry’s end meant for us: for us as fans, as …read more!

First I want to thank the AMAZING Tom Scribble for the snippets of her artwork on my blog banner. She is truly one of the GREAT HP FanArtists! Now, about this little ol’ blog-thingy here: I thought, being the big HP FanArt geek that I am, it might be nice to talk a bit more …read more!

The room in Edinburgh’s picturesque Balmoral Hotel where J.K. Rowling finished writing Harry Potter has been renamed, with the author’s permission, the J.K. Rowling Suite, the Telegraph reports. It costs £965/night to stay there. The suite is room number 552 in the hotel, and reps for the Balmoral say that since it was revealed on …read more!

So let’s get a few facts down so that we are clear on all of this. I’m a 43 year old, happily married woman. I have two wonderful children, a husband who loves me to distraction, a full time career and a part time gig as a fantasy author. This all meshes together into a …read more!

There is an amazing group of women that work at The Leaky Cauldron that I have had the joy of working with for the past two years — the Crafty Witches. We get the fun of finding and sharing fantastic tutorials and craft ideas all Harry Potter related with visitors to both the Leaky Cauldron …read more!

Great news today: Registration for LeakyCon 2009 is now open! Tickets (which have been open to those who signed our e-mail list for about 12 hours) are going at a rapid clip so be sure to get yours early. The cost of the four-day conference is $165 through October 1. ALSO, our block of rooms …read more!