There is a new charity auction for an autographed photo of actor Jason Isaacs with the proceeds to benefit Oxfam America. Jason, who portrays Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films, autographed a photo when he was filming his mini-series The State Within that is simply inscribed “With Love” and his signature (sealed with an …read more!

Hello! Welcome to my Leaky blog. I’ve found that more than six years covering this “beat” has given me a lot of thoughts about Potter, life, culture, fandom and more, that no one but you fine folk would be interested in hearing. Plus, I’ve been getting angry e-mails for two solid years from people who …read more!

A reminder today that Portus 2008, the HPEF Harry Potter symposium will take place this weekend in Dallas, Texas. If you have not yet registered for this event, you may still do via this link, with individual day registrations remaining as well. A note as well that the day registration for Saturday will allow you …read more!

…… Was as a child growing up with my parents and also my grandmother (aka Nana) and my uncle who all lived with us together. Since both my parents had to work, I was fortunate to spend time at home with Nana. From her, I learned how to work jigsaw puzzles, loving to read and …read more!

For this month of July, our Contest Crew has launched their latest venture which takes a leaf from Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling’s book in inviting you to write your own Harry Potter prequel. As we reported back in June, Jo Rowling penned an 800-word prequel featuring the characters of James Potter and Sirius …read more!

Welcome Welcome Hello and welcome to my blog “The Twin Spot”. Here we will address the eternal question of “What would Fred and George think?” No one will be spared their rapier wit, there is no safe haven from a well timed jibe. If you’ve done it…they will comment on it. This blog is going …read more!

I hope that you will all find it nice and cozy here as we talk about Professor Severus Snape, his life before and during the Harry Potter Series, and those people in different series that are so darn easy to hate, but we still have to like/appreciate them in the end. I fell in love …read more!

« Back to Contests color=”#A50000″ face=”Comic Sans MS”> Harry Potter Prequel Contest In June of this year, J. K. Rowling auctioned a card for charity containing an 800-word prequel to the Harry Potter series. The contest crew now invites you to show us exactly what would happen if it were you, and not Jo who …read more!

It would seem our streak of good news has come to an end, as Coming Soon.com is reporting today they have confirmed the trailers that will be shown before the new Batman film, “The Dark Knight,” and a teaser trailer for “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” is NOT among those listed. Putting an end …read more!

I was thinking the other day just what I could possibly blog on related to Harry Potter. Not that I couldn’t ramble on for hours on end about it. What with theories and fanfiction and the ever aggregating news feed we could all rant until we were blue in the face if given the proper …read more!