Enjoying a Butterbeer Forget the Sorting Hat for a moment, because the absolute first thing any Harry Potter fan must do in ...

Music creates unity among peoples, cultures and nations. Music can touch the soul, making it our universal means of communication. 2 Is this what Dumbledore means when he defines music as "a magic ...

There are many forms of authority. Those exercised in the books include legal, parental, and moral authority. The use of authority relies first on the acknowledgement by both parties to the ...

Since I first read and subsequently reread and rereread all the Harry Potter books I have been thinking about the recurring themes, such as a mother's love or a hero's journey. The thing my mind ...

A British woman writing about a fictional high school for the magically gifted has quietly reinvented higher education in the United States. Harry Potter, "the boy who lived' has become the boy ...

When I finished reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, I was seriously bummed. Dumbledore dying? I mean, I expected it to happen at some point, but I just wasn't ready for it this soon.

J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, has called Leaky “my favorite fan site” and “a wonderfully well-designed mine of accurate information on all things Harry Potter” that ...

"When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love¦" - Professor Slughorn 1 I want to look at Snape to try and answer this question: Did Snape ...

Harry Potter: A History of Magic opens at the New York Historical Society tomorrow, with a guide narrated by Natalie Dormer, and will bring together all audiobook readers for the first time ever.

In the past few weeks, we have taken the time to reflect as fans and as a community to the statements that J.K. Rowling recently made about transgender people. After listening to a wide variety ...

Note: A preliminary transcript is now at the end of this post; please note that there may be some small errors in phrasing, and all questions have been paraphrased to save time; this is not a ...

Related 19 Years Later News New cast for "Cursed Child" in London 19 years later, the fear that Harry's son Albus expressed to his father on Platform 9 3/4 is realised: He is sorted into Slytherin ...