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!

Updates tonight regarding the ongoing progress for the future site of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park attraction being build at Universal Orlando, Florida. IOACentral.com has posted photos of new signs on the construction barriers at the park, which feature “two owls around Hogwarts castle, and a symbol representing Hogsmeade.” You can see …read more!

Thanks much to WB for sending us the high res version of the new photo, as seen here in our image galleries, featuring Harry Potter (Dan Radcliffe) and Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent) in class with the new Potions professor holding one mysterious (or lucky?) vial.

Over the past few weeks, reports surfaced regarding a very brief IMAX teaser trailer being previewed in front of The Dark Knight film this past weekend. Many owled this morning to let us know the short IMAX teaser trailer can now be viewed online. The short teaser features a simple black background, a short voiceover …read more!

As readers will remember, TLC reported previously that actor Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) has taken a role in a new film called “Cherrybomb,” which is currently in production. Further news about this project comes today via a new video online showing Rupert and his co-star, James Nesbitt, on set of the film in Belfast, Ireland. …read more!