San Diego Comic Con 2018 opened its doors yesterday, but panels of interest to Harry Potter fans officially kicked off today, starting with YouTube’s introduction to its new sci-fi thriller Origin starring alums Tom Felton and Natalia Tena and ending with hints of exciting news to come as fans look forward to tonight’s The Dan …read more!

This Saturday at San Diego Comic-Con, Scholastic will hold a 20th anniversary celebration panel, moderated by Leaky’s very own Melissa Anelli! The 20 Years of Magic: Inside Harry Potter panel will take place 3 p.m.-4 p.m in Room 6DE, and will host a major discussion and celebration of all things Potter. Entertainment Weekly just exclusively announced a new …read more!

As San Diego Comic Con approaches and summer turns the mid-year corner, Warner Bros. is gearing up for the Nov. 16 release of the highly-anticipated wizarding sequel, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. In the last week, we’ve seen an exclusive featurette on the upcoming film and exciting “sneak peek” images from Entertainment Weekly. We’ve …read more!

Thirteen years ago today, Lev Grossman released his interview with J.K. Rowling, discussing all manner of plot points and theories after the long-awaited release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Thanks to guest writer Beatrice Groves, we’ve been bringing you exclusive new material from this interview, addressing J.K. Rowling’s response to readers, use of …read more!

Aside from book and movie release dates, Harry Potter Book Night has to be the best day of the year for Harry Potter fans! Bloomsbury officially announced today that Harry Potter Book Night 2019 will take place on February 7th, and the theme will be Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! We're delighted to announce that …read more!

On this day in 2005, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was published, and we’re celebrating by bringing you exclusive new material from Lev Grossman’s interview with J.K. Rowling following the release of the sixth book! This analysis is written up by Potter expert and Research Fellow in Renaissance English at the University of Oxford,  Dr Beatrice Groves, …read more!

On July 17th 2005, the day after the publication of the Half-Blood Prince, Lev Grossman published a write up of his interview with J.K. Rowling in Time Magazine. On July 13th 2005 Grossman had an extensive, two-hour interview with Rowling but, as he has documented, only a small percentage of what Rowling said in that …read more!

J.K. Rowling is among 46 nominees for the New Academy Prize in Literature. The prize is journalist Alexandra Pascalidou’s answer to the cancellation of the Nobel Prize in Literature for this year following scandal at the Swedish Academy. According to the New York Times, Pascalidou was both embarrassed and incensed by the corruption itself, but felt …read more!

Today the UK’s Sky Cinema aired an all-too-brief, tantalising, exclusive sneak peek at Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald. The 4-minute featurette begins with Eddie Redmayne and Katherine Waterston giving a quick recap, with footage, of the first Fantastic Beasts film.  They explain how chaos ensued when magizoologist Newt Scamander shows up in New York with a …read more!

Much Muggle ink has been spilled, proverbially speaking, over the possible plot twists and turns in the highly-anticipated upcoming film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. But, intricate theories aside, we wouldn’t be nearly as excited about where Rowling takes us in her latest entry into wizarding history if we hadn’t fallen in love with …read more!