The staff of Scribbulus has a bit of holiday fun for you with this new mini-issue containing two parody essays. The essays are CIA “Secretly Copied Deathly Hallows Manuscript to Change Plot Lines” by Bob Woodwand and Carl Bernstake Madurodam Post Writers and The Noble History of Duelling by Sir Lance Bluntley Duelling Master. Enjoy!

We hope we’re not the first, and we hope we’re not the last, to wish you and your loved ones a very Happy Christmas today! We’d of course like to add to that Happy Hanukah, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Birthday, Happy Anything You Celebrate At This Time of Year. We hope you decorate your tree with …read more!

Since “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” was revealed as the title to Harry Potter 7, some sites have reported that two other registered Harry Potter trademarks – Harry Potter and the Heart of Ravenclaw and Harry Potter and the Deadly Veil may have been the other two titles that J.K. Rowling said she was …read more!

Attention Fan Artists! We have a new contest for you, in honor of Jo’s announcement of the title of (the book formerly known as) Book Seven. All entries will be placed in our galleries, and the winners’ works will be posted on Leaky’s main page. Good luck! Here are the details: Design and create the …read more!

We’ve made a quick transcript of the Evanna Lynch phone call from this morning’s

HarryPotter.nl, J.K. Rowlng’s Dutch publishers’ site, has listed the working title of the seventh book – not as the expected Harry Potter en de Dodelijke Heiligen, the literal translation, but Harry Potter en het Fatale Heiligdom. That means the title is something like “Deadly Shrine,” “Deadly Sanctuary,” or, as some readers have suggested, “Deadly Saints.” …read more!

On our 69th Harry Potter podcast, a special call-in edition to discuss the new Harry Potter title, our first caller is none other than Evanna Lynch, who will play Luna Lovegood in the fifth Harry Potter film. She joins us to talk about the title, what she did when she found out, what she thinks …read more!

Several readers have let us know that Amazon.UK has now set a price for Book Seven at £13.99 (or roughly 27.39 USD), and has gone from a “Notify Me” status to an actual “Pre-Order” status. Thanks to reader Roonwit, we also know the UK retailer is telling those who have pre-ordered, amazingly, that there will …read more!

We’ve had so many requests and questions about the events of recent days, that we thought we would give those who might have missed all of this in the holiday rush a chance to catch up on all the news with this recap.Important things to note are as follows: The door to the office on …read more!

It’s end-of-the-year list time, and IMDb has released its “STARmeter Top 25 for 2006.” The rankings are based on the “actual search behavior of over 42 million users of IMDb.com.” Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) is ranked at number 22 and Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) came in at Number 16, even though neither one appeared in …read more!