February 2010 Craft Along Now Open
Yesterday, the Crafty Witches launched a brand new Craft-Along, this time inviting you to join them as they finish crafting all the WIPs (works in progress) or UFOs (unfinished objects) they have lying around. Dust off your unfinished Harry Potter-related craft projects, finish them and show them off on the Craft-AlongContinued...
Lily and Stag Reading Group Weekend of Fun
The Lily and Stag Inn, host of the Harry Potter Reading Groups at the Leaky Lounge, invite you to join them in their discussion of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The Lily and Stag are collapsing the walls between their rooms, allowing you to move between the private reading groups and back againContinued...
Five Awesome Years on the Lounge
Today is a special day for Leaky and all its loyal readers. Five years ago today the Leaky Lounge, our forum, was born, and Leaky itself changed forever: from a small news-posting blog to a worldwide community, from a one-way news posting service to a great depository of ideas, writing, theories, reading groups,Continued...
Read I Capture the Castle with Jo's Book Nook
Our non-Harry Potter book club, Jo's Book Nook, has chosen to read Dodie Smith's timeless novel I Capture the Castle for the month of January. Jo's Book Nook is open to all MyLeaky members, providing the opportunity to discuss the chosen novel with others who are discovering or rediscovering it at theContinued...
Back to the Start for Harry Potter Book Club
Our very own Harry Potter Book Club has chosen to open the decade by revisiting the very first novel in the Harry Potter series. Join the Book Club in this section of the Leaky Lounge as they spend this month rereading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone/Sorcerer's Stone. The Harry Potter Book ClubContinued...
January 2010 Craft Along Now Open
Today brings both a new year and a new Craft-Along, this time with an invitation to join the Crafty Witches and Wizards in crafting your own Weasley Family Clock. The January Craft-Along page has a list of the basic supplies and a link to a tutorial to help you get started on this month's project. A thread in theContinued...
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Reading Group Sorting Now Open
Sorting for the reading of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in our Lily and Stag Inn Reading Group forums has been opened over on the Leaky Lounge. Our Reading Groups offer Lounge members an intimate environment in which in-depth discussions about the Harry Potters novels takeContinued...
Stroll Through the Haunted Pumpkin Patch on the Leaky Lounge
The ghosts and ghouls of Halloween are out and about over on our Leaky Lounge forum which is now celebrating this holiday with fun and games at the Haunted Pumpkin Patch. Join in with your fellow Lounge members and your favorite Harry Potter characters for this spooky event ofContinued...
Winners of Albus Severus Meets Peeves Contest Announced
Last month, our Contest Crew brought you the Albus Severus Meets Peeves Contest which asked you to create an original 500-word or less story about the young Albus Severus Potter meeting Peeves, the Hogwarts poltergeist, for the first time. After receiving many splendid entries, theContinued...
New Books for Harry Potter Book Club, Jo's Book Nook
Both of our Leaky Lounge based Book Clubs have opened up readings for the month of October. First, our Harry Potter Book Club is tackling the stories in The Tales of Beedle the Bard. These five stories will be examined individually and as a whole as those who join in this reading goContinued...
TLC's Harry Potter Crafts Presents: First Featured Crafter of the Month
Leaky's Crafty Witches and Wizards have a new feature to bring you today, their Featured Harry Potter Crafter of the Month. Potter crafter Droxy is the first recipient of this title, for her many and varied contributions to the Harry Potter corner of the crafting world. Her work, which can be seenContinued...
Talk Nicholas Flamel in Jo's Book Nook
Jo's Book Nook, our very own non-Harry Potter book club housed on the Leaky Lounge, has opened a new reading for the month of September. This time around, the Nook will be reading and discussing the first three novels in The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series by author Michael Scott: The AlchemystContinued...
Read "The Return of the King" in Jo's Book Nook
The reading of the third book in author J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Ring series has now begun over in Jo's Book Nook, Leaky's non-Harry Potter book club. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is the final installment in the classic fantasy novel series by Mr. Tolkien, and takes readersContinued...
Fight Back with the DA in Lily and Stag Inn Event
The Lily and Stag Inn, home of our Harry Potter Reading Groups, requires the assistance of a few good DA members this weekend, for the Inn has come under the control of one Dolores Jane Umbridge. According to a new proclamation issued by the High Inquisitor, groups of all kinds are to beContinued...
Two New Selections for Leaky's Book Clubs
Our two book clubs are ready to start out the month of July with two new selections for you to read and discuss with your fellow Lounge members. First, the Jane Austen classic Emma is the next selection in our own non-Harry Potter book club: Jo's Book Nook. With discussion open to all registeredContinued...