As we have been telling you, the Spanish-language edition of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was due to be released yesterday, and there are now several news articles online about this event. In Buenos Aires, Argentina, one bookstore anticipates that between “15-to-18 thousand copies ” of Book Six will be sold this weekend. The …read more!

BBC Norfolk interviewed former Tom Riddle Christian Coulson regarding his role in the new stage adaptation of Festen. In the interview, Coulson addresses Potter: “I hadn’t read the books until I auditioned. They saw about a thousand people, in the end they got down to three and then they camera tested me and that was …read more!

Scholastic, the US publishers of the Harry Potter novels, announced today that a brand new sweepstakes is coming in a build up to the release of the paperback version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Starting March 1, and continuing on for the next six Wednesdays, there will be an online sweepstakes open at …read more!

Here’s a larger list of the roles – not actors in them – that we were currently able to ascertain are in Order of the Phoenix; new/interesting ones at top. Note this is not complete, not confirmed by WB, of course may change with rewrites, and does not say anything about the actors playing these …read more!

JKR has placed a link to a piece about caged beds and her experiences since discovering them, on JKRowling.com. The piece offers links and information that might be useful to interested parties.

As rumored around the Web, we’ve been able to confirm that the role of Mundungus Fletcher is not currently written into Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. That doesn’t mean it won’t change, or that WB has said so; but as of this moment, he’s not there. The character of Trelawney is; however, …read more!

This is a rare editorial piece here on Leaky; as such, a few warnings apply. Parents, the discussion material contained in the quoted article is not suitable for young children. Kids, if you have questions about this you should go directly to your parents/guardians. Yesterday, The Stanford Daily, Stanford University’s daily newspaper, ran an article …read more!

Actor Daniel Radcliffe is the lucky winner of the Black Family Tree which Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling had donated for auction to benefit Book Aid International. The item went for about £30,000 – accounting for almost half of all the money raised for the auction to benefeit Book Aid – for this new hand …read more!

We have some good news this morning as Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been nominated at the British Book Awards as one of the best of the year. In awards announced today, the sixth Harry Potter book by J.K. Rowling was among those shortlisted for the WH Smith Book of the Year award. …read more!

Everyone, please join us as we wish actress Julie Walters (Molly Weasley) a very Happy 56th Birthday! Cheers Julie!