This April, our Crafty Witches and Wizard have chosen crafter Staarrkatt as April’s Featured Crafter of the Month. Staarrkatt has used her crafty skills – which include knitting, crocheting, quilting, sewing, woodworking and stained glass, to name a few – to produce a set of House Scarf Earrings, miniature Golden Snitches, a tiny Dragon and …read more!

Firstly, the Crafty Witches and Wizard have announced the April 2010 Crafters Go Green! Contest. Earth Day is coming up on the 22nd of April and the Crafty Witches are continuing in the same vein as last month’s eco-friendly Craft-Along. You can enter in either of the two categories. The first category, Transfiguration à la …read more!

Just in time for Easter weekend, the April and Easter-themed issue of The Quibbler is now available for download. The Quibbler is Leaky’s monthly publication for “news that no-one else will publish”; April’s issue features articles on Quibbler staff members’ success in bringing springtime to the U.K., a reported sighting of Gilderoy Lockhart, a possible …read more!

As it’s now April 2nd, we should probably come clean: As awesome as Glee is, we could never abandon that bespectacled boy wizard named Harry Potter and are still very much hosting LeakyCon 2011 in Orlando, Florida from July 13-17. April Fools’ Day is Leaky’s traditional outlet for a day of well-mannered frivolity and, this …read more!

Sure, July 2011 sounded like a great time for our next Harry Potter conference. The debut of last film, a stone’s throw from the Harry Potter park¦ yeah, well, that was then, and today is a new day of Glee. LeakyCon 2011 has now become GleekyCon 2011, the first ever Glee fan conference! Slated to …read more!

The Lily and Stag Inn reading groups at the Leaky Lounge invite you to join their discussion of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows starting today, the 17th of March. Once sorted into a reading group, you will be “Rediscovering the Magic” of the seventh Harry Potter book in a close-knit, family-like environment. The small …read more!

The Leaky Lounge, our discussion forum, is today holding a St. Patrick’s Day celebration. The designated forum will remain open for the rest of the week and features discussions about Irish actors, green crafts, limericks, Irish recipes and more. You can find the St. Patrick’s Day forum at this link.

As it’s St. Patrick’s Day today, the brand new March issue of The Quibbler is aptly themed and now available for download. The Quibbler is The Leaky Cauldron’s monthly publication for “news that no-one else will publish” and March’s edition covers a Dark plot to interfere with Earth’s weather systems, bewitched footwear, the dangers of …read more!

Both of our book clubs on the Leaky Lounge have chosen new books to read for the month of March. The Harry Potter Book Club is reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and you can find the forum at this link, where you will find all sorts of polls, prompts and more to …read more!

Yesterday, the Crafty Witches launched a brand new environmentally-conscious Craft-Along, in time for the upcoming Earth Day on the 22nd of April. The challenge for this month is to turn your favourite Harry Potter book into a small reusable bag, enabling you to better help the planet by turning down the plastic carrier bags offered …read more!