New Goblet of Fire Poster

One Take Watson.com has found a brand new promotional poster for the Goblet of Fire film, which is apparently in the new issue of Nickelodeon magazine. The poster has new photos of the trio which you can see here. Enjoy! Thanks very much connie!
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Potter Actors Attend Empire Film Awards

Cast members from the Harry Potter films attended last night's Empire Film Awards in London. CBBC Newsround reports that Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) presented the award for Best British Film. Also attending were Jason Issacs (Lucius Malfoy) and Alan Rickman (Professor Snape). Be sure to check theContinued...

Dragons Are Coming!

Do you believe that Dragons are real? There is a new television special set to air on Animal Planet called Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real all about these fascinating mythological creatures that are part of the Harry Potter world. For this special produced by the people who made the award- winning show Walking with Dinosaurs, theContinued...

Happy Birthday Harry Melling

Today actor Harry Melling who plays Dudley Dursley is celebrating his 16th birthday. Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Sue!

Everyone, it makes me so happy to report that today is everyone's favorite news wench Sue Upton's coughcoughnd birthday. We're sending a free round of drinks round the ol' Leaky in honor of the occasion. Happy Birthday, Sue, we don't know what we'd do without you!

JKR and the Ballad of Nearly Headless Nick

"It was a mistake any wizard could make

Who was tired and caught on the hop

One piffling error, and then, to my terror,

I found myself facing the chop.

GoF Cartoon, Unforgivables Revisited

Cartoonist John Cook let us know that there is a new Hairy Plopper parody cartoon online, in which we see Moody asking for the names of the three Unforgivable curses, with interesting results. Users submitted the punchline of this parody; you can see the winning one and more than 1,000 others at the link; feelContinued...

Rupert in Bogie Final

As part of Red Nose Day in the UK, Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) is running around shouting "bogies!" as loud as he can. We are so proud. :)
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Harry Potter: The Billion Dollar Brand

" Harry Potter is a global brand worth an estimated $1 billion. " So says Forbes in a short article about the industry surrounding the Harry Potter series. Focusing on the amount of money generated by the Potter books, movies, and merchandise sales, Forbes notes that "at least a dozen companiesContinued...

Happy Birthday Remus Lupin!

Hooooowl! According to JKRowling.com March 10th(already in the UK) is Remus Lupin's Birthday! Cheers!

Waylett Holds Fan Art Contest

Jamie Waylett (Vincent Crabbe) has received so much fan art from readers lately that he's decided to hold a contest via his site:

"Everyone who sends in a drawing of me or of my character, either by himself or with other fellow Slytherin students, over the next 3 weeks will be judged in a fan art contest...TheContinued...

Kids' Choice Awards Online Voting Open

Previously we told you that Harry Potter had been nominated for two awards at Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards. The online voting section for the awards is now open. If you would like, you can click here to vote for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in the "Favorite Movie" category.Continued...

Leaky Text, for now

No worries, but just as a precaution for this high bandwidth day, we're switching to our text page for our main. This will return to normal shortly, but there's so many of you around right now that it's best to play it safe. If you're really dying for the graphics version, go here.

For further discussion of the covers and the interview...

...visit the threads on our forum, where discussions are already heating up. The threads in question are in the Daily Prophet Section.

Royal Tidings: Cover Art for HBP in the News

With the release today of the book covers for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, some media sources have posted stories about this. MSNBC has this article about artist Mary GrandPre and her design work for the American version of Book 6.

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