Does Digg just dislike Harry Potter?

That's an interesting situation indeed! I went to The Leaky Cauldron myself (it's actually a great source of Harry Potter news and trivia and I already subscribe to its RSS feed as it happens) and found an interesting article about Scholastic (the US publisher) launching a YouTube channel to help with promotion of the seventh book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

The URL for that particular page is a bit weird, though:

To be honest, I've never seen "#" in a URL and surmise that it's actually an illegal URL based on the original Web specifications (the "#" should be a numeric character entity instead, as should the colon, making the URL look like %23article%3A9713).

Anyway, I tried to Digg it and you're right, here's what I got:

Who is at fault here? Well, if we must assign fault, then I would say that The Leaky Cauldron is producing URLs that are dangerous and contain characters that aren't supposed to be "in the clear". It's a bit surprising that it works with Web browsers, truth be told.

Nonetheless, Digg could certainly modify its algorithms to be a bit more lenient with poorly formatted URLs from sites and then we could Digg stories from The Leaky Cauldron and any other site that uses a similar URL format.

My guess, however, is that you won't be able to Digg Harry Potter stories from TLC for rather a while. And I know that's something Snape would be chuckling about, don't ya think?