There hasn’t been much non-Harry Potter news from the Harry Potter cast amidst the release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.” Matt Lewis (Neville Longbottom) attended the EA British Academy Children’s Awards yesterday. Video game “LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4” had been nominated for the BAFTA Kid’s Vote – Games Award but …read more!

As it is now the 29th of November in the U.K., the calendar on J.K. Rowling’s official website has been updated to mark the birthday of Bill Weasley. Many happy returns, Bill!

For this year’s Jingle Spells charity compilation, we gave our readers the option of sending in entries to “win” a slot on the album. We got a fantastic response, 25 quality wizard rock songs from which it was nearly impossible to choose. As promised, the ones that didn’t make it onto Jingle Spells 4 (which …read more!

Now that “Deathly Hallows: Part 1” is in theatres, Dan Radcliffe (Harry Potter) has further elaborated on the differences between “Deathly Hallows: Part 1” and “Deathly Hallows: Part 2”: “The last movie is going to be really, really fast-paced and a load of action in it, and it is like a war film,” Radcliffe told …read more!

The Daily Mail has a new article about Emma Watson (Hermione Granger), where she discusses many things, among them her experience thus far at Brown University: style=”overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;”> On the first day at her US university – chosen over Cambridge because the latter was …read more!

A new profile from the LA Times Hero Complex blog focuses on Helena Bonham Carter and her infamous portrayal of Bellatrix Lestrange in the “Harry Potter” films. The actress talks about her career and family, but also explains how she developed Bellatrix’s character for the films. “Bellatrix has really good fun, and she’s been a …read more!

The influence of pop culture knows no bounds. Even Hogwarts can whip her stairs back and forth. 🙂 This is the second installment of Fun Fridays where we will highlight a new, cool, funny, or interesting thing created created by the Harry Potter fan community. This could be anything from a funny spoof on YouTube, …read more!

Black Friday fatigue got you figuratively and financially spent? Fear not! Leaky has one more (totally free) Black Friday deal for you: an update to our Guide to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter app for the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.LeakyNews.com’s Guide to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter is a fun and …read more!

Our Contest Team have just announced their latest contest for the month of December, the Wizarding World T-Shirt Contest, which ends a little earlier than normal, on the 17th of December. This month’s contest asks you to design a t-shirt (by computer or by hand) to be sold to teenage witches and wizards. Base your …read more!

LA Times HeroComplex blog is reporting that Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) will be returning to Leavesden Studios to do a single day of reshoots: “I got the call today’ Felton said Tuesday. “I have to go back for one more day of reshoots. So I’m going back in a couple weeks to do, literally, one …read more!