PotterCast #18 – the much-anticipated, much-appreciated, muchly-syncopated special Holiday Filkcast Edition is up and available for download! You all have been sending us your song parodies for two weeks, and they’re awesome – and the episode includes some surprises, too. 🙂 Track Listing: The PotterCast Song – Guru of Sloth The Christmas Filk Song – …read more!

Hey all; a lot of you noticed that we experienced some down time last night. There’s a lot going on backstage at Leaky right now, so we appreciate your patience. Not only did we upgrade our content management system, but we are about to install our third server, named Snuffles! The slow Leaky days are …read more!

Happy Harry Holidays Everyone! Our favorite author has been sprucing up her website to reflect a more festive holiday spirit. Enjoy!

Entertianment Weekly magazine’s “Best of 2005” poll has closed. The results will be published in EW’s end of year issue, but are now available online. Harry has trounced the competition in two categories! Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was voted Best New Novel of the Year with a whopping 80% of the 52,298 votes …read more!

Fresh from the press junket for The White Countess, Ralph Fiennes has a new interview in Newsday. In it, he talks about his new film, being nominated (or not) for prestigious awards, and about basing characters on their outward appearance. Which, of course, brings us to Voldemort! “He’s a cosmically evil guy who’s been given …read more!

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has been named by the magazine “TIME for Kids” as their Person of the Year. Readers of this children’s magazine selected our favorite author for this award over others such as Lance Armstrong, disaster relief volunteers, and even the Chicago White Sox baseball team. Congratulations Jo! Thanks to MuggleNet for …read more!

Yesterday we told you that actor Daniel Radcliffe would be appearing on the variety program “This Way Up” which was broadcast on BBC2 tonight in the UK. DanRadcliffe.com has now posted the video and screencaps from this appearance, which you can see via this link (Remember, please right click and save). Enjoy! Thanks to DanRadcliffe.com!

Two performers in the Harry Potter movies have been nominated for their work on the British stage. Actress Julie Walters (Molly Weasley) has been nominated by the Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers’ Choice Awards in the category of “Best Actress in a Musical” for her role in Acorn Antiques . Actor Alan Rickman (Professor Severus Snape) was nominated …read more!

Potter fan and best selling author Stephen King has posted his 10 Favorite Books of the Year list for his Pop of King column he writes for Entertainment Weeklymagazine. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is ranked at number five. He writes: “The miracle of the Harry Potter series is that it keeps getting better. …read more!

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced today their list of seven films in consideration for “Achievement in Visual Effects” and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is one of the films included on this list. Academy members are to screen a fifteen minute clip of each of the films, and then …read more!