Wizarding World has announced that their Back to Hogwarts celebration is to return to London King’s Cross this year, with the four-day event boasting a trunk-load of photo opportunities, live performances and an announcement about Hogwarts Legacy. Celebrating the 11:00am moment the Hogwarts Express departs for a new school year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft …read more!

August is the perfect time to start thinking ahead to Halloween. With the Hogwarts Express leaving on 1 September, it is also a prudent idea to start brushing up on your knowledge of Defence Against the Dark Arts. You never know who might attack you on the train, be it errant Dementors, classmates enamoured of …read more!

Hogwarts Legacy, a role-playing game set at Hogwarts in the 19th century, has been delayed from its originally proposed release date of late 2022, i.e., for the holidays, to February 2023. The February release date applies to PlayStation, XBox, and PC versions of the videogame. No release date is yet available for Nintendo Switch. In …read more!

Pottermore Publishing has collaborated with Chinese audiobook platform Ximalaya to release the Harry Potter series in a Chinese audiobook version as of 21 June. According to Pottermore Publishing, Ximalaya collaborated with VoiceGem and some prominent Chinese voice actors, such as Jiang Guangtao, to record the series in Chinese for the first time. Pottermore is planning …read more!

Tom Felton recently displayed his Slytherin house pride by purchasing some Slytherin-themed merchandise from Insight Editions. Insight Editions makes a lot of Potter-rific stuff for fans. Leaky has reviewed their various books and kits and other neat stuff, interviewed authors, and hosted multiple giveaways for our readers. So, Insight Editions was pretty chuffed to see …read more!

Jude Law has been nominated in Best Actor category of the National Film Awards for his role as Albus Dumbledore, ginger wizard extraordinaire, in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. Another actor in the Fantastic Beasts film series is up for an award in the telly division: Colin Farrell, who played Gellert Grindelwald in his …read more!

The main event being the ability, for a limited time, to earn badges to collect a Niffler as a permanent creature to use in gameplay. Hey, I thought Nifflers were known for doing the collecting? The in-game event also features Magizoologist Newt Scamander joining the game for the first time as a guide and host …read more!

As I wait to see Fantastic Beasts: Secrets of Dumbledore for the first time, I am eager for any clues to the film’s content — trailers, photos, graphic art from Mina Lima, interviews, etc. Now I can add the soundtrack to my list of preparatory materials for the film. The composing and recording of this …read more!

With the release of each new film, we fans expect that, in addition to the film itself, video, audio, photos, and interviews will take us behind the scenes, revealing bloopers, scenes that ended up on the cutting room floor, and on-set antics from the cast and crew. These details enrich our experience of the story …read more!

One of the strengths of the Harry Potter series is the nuance with which its characters are drawn. No-one is all-good or all-bad. The best characters have their weak moments, times when they make bad decisions, lash out, behave selfishly, use bad judgment, behave immaturely, or say something hurtful that they regret. In other words, …read more!