LeakyCon 2024

Melissa is the CEO of Mischief Management, which produces LeakyCon, as well as other immersive and community building events for fans. She's a host of the PotterCast and also runs The Leaky Cauldron website. In 2008 she published the New York Times bestselling Harry, A History, a... Read More →

Fantasy Fangirls is a top-charts podcast known as the cure to your book hangover. Two sisters, Nicole and Lexi, deep dive into your favorite fantasy stories one series at a time. They discuss lore, characters, insights, and theories of beloved magical worlds — with lots of laughs... Read More →

Frankie Franco III, or “Frak,” as he is sometimes called, is a storyboard artist based in Vancouver British Columbia. When he isn’t drawing quirky things or admiring all the puns the world has to offer, you can find him being an overly enthusiastic Cat dad on the hunt for a... Read More →

Eric James is a podcast host, producer, and editor currently residing in Chicago, IL. They are best known to LeakyCon attendees for their work on MuggleCast, the first Harry Potter podcast. Eric, a Hufflepuff, enjoys fan created works and believes in following one's passions to... Read More →

Lexi was climbing the corporate ladder in B2B tech marketing before she became a mom. Then her identity was wrapped up in motherhood for several years, and this rediscovered love for fantasy reading (plus the catapult into content creation) has largely helped her find herself beyond... Read More →

MuggleCast is the original Harry Potter podcast. The show launched in August 2005 and quickly gained an audience of tens of thousands of listeners every week. Our quick growth told us one thing: Fans love hearing fellow fans talk passionately about Harry Potter.Nearly two decades... Read More →

As an entrepreneur/podcaster for 5 years, Nicole always enjoyed diving head first into things, gaining the title of “deep dive queen” from her husband.But last August, she picked up ACOTAR, and the analyst part of her brain was immediately devoted to romantasy. Nicole is the hopeless... Read More →

John is the main producer and one of the hosts of the PotterCast. Noe joined the Harry Potter online fandom in 2003.

Since 2005, PotterCast is the official podcast of Harry Potter fansite The Leaky Cauldron.

Mike Schubert is the creator, host, and editor of Potterless, a podcast with over 75,000,000 downloads, following his journey as a grown man reading the Harry Potter series for the first time. Each episode, he is joined by a different HP fan to poke fun at things that don't make sense... Read More →

Micah Tannenbaum is a New York native whose MuggleCast journey began when he reached out to Andrew about recording weekly news segments. It wasn’t long before he was invited to be a regular host on the show. Now, seventeen years later, Micah continues to listen, analyze, and defend... Read More →