By Zora Giacomelli [It has been a decade since he died of pancreatic cancer but we will “always” miss Alan Rickman and long ...

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, they ...

Some would say that Harry Potter is a Bildungsroman story, about the growth of the protagonist (Harry) from childhood to adulthood. Others argue that it is a fantasy story containing a quest, magical ...

"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 feel ...

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 who ...

Among Harry Potter fans, one subject is quickly overtaking religion and politics as a taboo topic for polite conversation. The controversial subject is whether Severus Snape is good, evil or somewhere ...

Thanks to our wonderful transcription elves, you can now read the transcript of the first part of our Harry Potter podcast, PotterCast‘s interview with J.K. Rowling (to hear it yourself, just click ...

Can you guess where I am?!? There’s not much that will inspire this stiff-upper-lip WASP to dissolve into hysterics of joy, but here I am sobbing, “It’s real!” Such a spontaneous expression of raw ...

On this day when we in the fandom are celebrating Professor McGonagall’s birthday, it is only fitting that we hear from the woman who brings this character so memorably to life on the screen: Dame ...

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 final ...

I’ve seen a lot of bizarre Potter-related merchandise. From hats to trainers, you can dress yourself in Potter-themed clothing, shoes, accessories, jewellery, and bags. You can decorate most rooms in ...

Witches, wizards, and Muggles alike were treated to a magical spectacle with the annual Back to Hogwarts events yesterday. As fans around the globe celebrated the return to school, a whirlwind of ...