Please join us at Leaky in wishing Maggie Smith a very happy birthday. The Professor McGonagall actress celebrated her 76th birthday today. Many happy returns, Dame Maggie!

The nominations for our second annual Leakies are now ready to be announced and awaiting your votes! Our annual award ceremony highlights the most popular, most interesting, and most talked about stories and people from the past year in Harry Potter. Help us wrap up the past year by voting for your favorite actors, news …read more!

Looking at all the nasty weather out in the Eastern United States and elsewhere today, it looks there are many muggle out there in need of some Pepperup Potion!Don’t have any? Oh well, we don’t have a page in the Leakypedia for it either. Help us out and receive 75 MyLeaky points!Speaking of MyLeaky points, …read more!

Two days after Christmas every year (for the past.. 20 some odd years) comes the celebration of another important birth.. OK, come on! This is the 6th year I’ve had to come up with these openers, cut Andrew some Slack! Anyway back to the birthday girl. The whole city of New York is so excited …read more!

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Merry Christmas, everyone! We want to take a moment today to wish you the very happiest of holidays no matter what you celebrate – be it Christmas or Chanukah or Festivus or Kwanzaa or The Annual Day of Too Much Eating – whatever your holiday, we hope that it’s a marvelous one, from our family …read more!

As reported below, actor Dan Radcliffe (Harry Potter) appeared tonight on the UK quiz show, “Qi,” hosted by UK audiobook narrator Stephen Fry. The episode has aired, and is now available to watch right here via YouTube. The theme of the Christmas episode, Hocus Pocus, features Mr. Radcliffe on the panel alongside comic Lee Mac, …read more!

A quick reminder that Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) is going to be on this evening’s Christmas Edition of “QI”, on BBC One at 9.30pm or on BBC HD at 10pm. The quiz show is hosted by the narrator of the British Harry Potter audiobooks, Stephen Fry. An extended version of the programme, QI XL, will …read more!

The December issue of The Quibbler, Leaky’s publication for “news that no-one else will publish,” is now up for download. This issue features Siberian Ice Goblins, Dear Luna letters, Aberforth’s Page Three Girls and more! Grab a PDF version of The Quibbler at this link; find the zipped file version by clicking here. Past editions …read more!

The nominations are ready to be announced and voting is now open for the second annual Leakies, our very own award ceremony where we can wrap up the year together by voting on your favorites actors, news, moments, and more from the past year.Voting is now open, and will run through 11:59pm EST on Friday, …read more!