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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Recall from the movie, Harry, Ron, and Hermione play their way across a chessboard to pass the White players in a giant-scaled and dangerous game of Wizard Chess. In order for our heroes to pass ...

It is evident that fictional stories have always thrived off the imaginations of their writers. Nonetheless, it is also true that most authors are inspired by the world around them to write their ...

"Arithmancy looks terrible' said Harry, picking up a very complicated-looking number chart. However, at the same time in Hermione's life she discovers a class at Hogwarts that quickly becomes her ...

There are a myriad of factors that make J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series so wonderfully readable, so universally popular among readers of every age and demographic. She has invented scores of ...

US 6 (4 mm) or US 8 (5 mm) 12-16" (30.5 cm - 40.6 cm) circular needle, size dependent on gauge ...