Early History
The Leaky Cauldron website was started by Kevin C. Murphy on 5 July 2000, as a Geocities site managed through Blogger. It moved to its own domain on 4 December 2000. with B.K. DeLOng taking control a year later in 2001. Melissa Anelli joined the Leaky staff later that year as an editor and became Managing Editor in 2002. Anelli took full editorial control of the site in 2004. On 28 January 2005, Leaky debuted the Leaky Lounge, a forum for Harry Potter discussion. The forum currently has over 120,000 registered members.
The Leaky Cauldron was also part of the "Floo Network", a collection of Harry Potter sites that also included The Harry Potter Lexicon. The Leaky Cauldron withdrew financial support from the Lexicon and disbanded the Floo Network in 2007 following the legal action pursued by JK Rowling against its creator and webmaster, Steve Vander Ark.
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