During the interview after the launch of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, someone asked J.K. Rowling which member of the Order of the Phoenix is her favourite. She responded: “I keep killing all my favourite members of the Order…
The official release date of the final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was announced yesterday. The book will be available at midnight in English speaking countries all over the world on July 21, 2007. This date…
This article is an attempt to clear up some common misconceptions posted by several readers here on Beyond Hogwarts about what Horcruxes are and how they work. I’m not claiming to have some great insight into what J.K. believes about…
In Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince, we learned that, to make himself immortal, Lord Voldemort ripped his soul into seven pieces, and created six horcruxes (the seventh piece of his soul still residing in his body). In the course…
[Excerpt from the book “Defogging The Future” by Louis CasaBianca, an unauthorized speculation about book 7 of the Harry Potter series] For centuries, one of the great mysteries in human civilization was Hieroglyphics, a form of ancient Egyptian writing that…
I believe there is a small mistake in the movie script of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The error is when Professor Lupin says “Mischief managed” to the Marauder’s Map, just after saying goodbye to Harry at the…
At the end of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, as Harry is upset that he prevented Sirius and Lupin from killing Peter Pettigrew and then Pettigrew escaped, Dumbledore told Harry: “You did a very noble thing, in saving…
In the dramatic climax of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Dumbledore and Harry recover a locket from Voldemort’s secret cave. Only after Dumbledore “dies” does Harry open the locket and find the note inside, which reads, To the Dark…
In an interview released around the time of the theatrical premiere of Prisoner of Azkaban, an interview which is also on the Prisoner of Azkaban DVD, J.K. Rowling said: “Alfonso [Cuaron] had very good intuition about what would and wouldn’t…
These are elements of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince that would seem to be related to either the Dumbledore or Snape mysteries, but they have loop-holes or unresovled bits of information, and we’re not sure about them and are…
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