Join Leaky this Friday for the biggest Harry Potter release party anywhere! We’ll be in Naperville and Downer’s Grove, Ill., with roughly 60,000 other Harry Potter fans, counting down to midnight, having podcasts and costume contests, and much, much more! Please join us! Leaky will be doing PotterCasts at the following times and locations: 10:00 …read more!

The Associated Press is running a new interview with Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling conducted earlier this week, where Jo reflects on the end of the series and looks forward to a writing life beyond Harry. She remarks on the pressures and emotions she experienced while writing the series, and the pressures she faced all …read more!

Bloomsbury, the UK publishers of the Harry Potter novels, issued a press release today in response to copies of the final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, being released prior to the ‘UK, US and worldwide embargo time agreed with retailers, suppliers, and all third parties involved of 00.01AM British Summer Time …read more!

As many of you know, the respected newspaper The New York Times has posted an early review and more details of the plot of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. As many of the staff here has worked in media or journalism at some time, we’re very disappointed in these actions and make this post …read more!

Calling all Harry Potter audio book fans! Listening Library and Random House have launched a “Guess the Voices” game featuring actor Jim Dale and the narrations he does for the US audio book editions of the Harry Potter novels. In this game, there are 15 questions in all, where you listen to a clip from …read more!

TLC Interviews The following are interviews which TLC has conducted, in which TLC has taken part, or which have been donated to TLC. Enjoy! JK Rowling: July 16, 2005 – HBP Publication Day Part One | Part Two | Part Three Arthur Levine: January, 2006 – Interview with Arthur Levine, Co-Editor of Harry Potter Listen …read more!

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UK Harry Potter publishers Bloomsbury have updated their website with a few more details regarding upcoming events relating to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. As we told you previously, Jo will be reading from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at a special release event in London this Friday at midnight, and this reading …read more!

A retailer has broken their contract and released early copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to customers. Levy Home Entertainment,(with shipments made by DeepDiscount.com, a customer of that distributor) have apparently sent out copies of the book early this week, in violation of their contract with Scholastic. As a response, the US Harry …read more!