Alan Rickman, who is both loved and hated by Harry Potter fans for playing Severus Snape so well in the Harry Potter films, is among those due to be listed in the annual Queen’s New Years Honours, according to the…
Five tails from the book released by J.K. Rowling, which is mentioned in the course of the final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The Wizard and the Hopping Pot The first of Beedle the Bard’s tales,…
And what was the pitiful dying thing at the train station? Don’t feel bad you didn’t understand this, lots of people didn’t. It didn’t have anything to do with the Elder Wand or the other hallows. It had to do…
** Exclusive deal with Bloomsbury, Scholastic and Amazon will generate millions of pounds to help de-institutionalise vulnerable children ** In celebration of Harry Potter’s birthday today, the Children’s High Level Group (CHLG), the English charity co-founded by J.K. Rowling and…
J.K. Rowling’s 800 word prequel to the Harry Potter story, which she wrote for charity and which sold at auction for $50,000, was posted online last month by UK bookstore Waterstone’s. You can read it online or see it in…
Book Features Special Material by J.K. Rowling And New Art by Mary Grandpre New York, NY (May 20, 2008) — Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first book in J.K. Rowling’s phenomenally best-selling series, will be released in a…
Elemental transfiguration, the class which Professor McGonagall teaches at Hogwarts, is the magical art of physically converting one thing into another. But as with all types of magic, there are limitations to what you can do with transfiguration, as we…
Right before he cuts off Nagini’s head, how did Neville get Gryffindor’s sword, if Griphook had it last? As Harry is laying on the ground with everybody thinking he is dead, Neville steps up to challenge Voldemort. Voldemort causes the…
The Harry Potter books are done. Should J.K. Rowling write some new books that also involve the world of Harry Potter? Or, in the words of the Beatles, should she Let It Be? And if she does write some new…
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is dense with information that is crucial to the overall story. It’s definitely too much to stuff into a two hour movie. There are many challenges in adapting a novel or series of novels…
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