Location from Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
A tiny, grubby pub on Charing Cross Road in London, invisible to Muggles, serving as the gateway between the Muggle world and Diagon Alley through a brick archway in its back courtyard.
The Leaky Cauldron is the seam between worlds. On one side, Muggle London with its traffic and office workers. On the other, the hidden heart of wizarding Britain. Tom the barman (bald, toothless, endlessly friendly) has run the pub for decades and knows everyone's name. Harry stayed here for several weeks before his third year, eating ice cream sundaes at Florean Fortescue's and doing homework at the pub tables. The rooms upstairs are cheap and comfortable. The pub has no real food to speak of but serves excellent pea soup. Its most important function is architectural — without the Leaky Cauldron, Muggle-born families would have no way to reach Diagon Alley, and the wizarding economy would be cut off from its newest blood.
A small, dark pub squeezed between a bookshop and a record store on Charing Cross Road. Muggles' eyes slide right past it. Inside: dark wood, a long bar, a few tables, a crackling fire. The clientele is a mix of witches and wizards in robes and pointed hats, drinking firewhisky and pumpkin juice. The back courtyard contains a brick wall — tap the right brick three times with a wand and the wall rearranges itself into an archway opening onto Diagon Alley.
Also known as: the Leaky Cauldron, Leaky Cauldron, the Cauldron