Every Named Wand in Harry Potter
The gold letters over the door of Ollivanders read Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C., and the entire window display was one wand on a faded purple cushion. Harry Potter walked in on... Read More →
Every Magical Creature in Harry Potter
Professor Kettleburn, Dumbledore told the school, had ‘retired at the end of last year in order to enjoy more time with his remaining limbs’, and Care of Magical Creatures passed to the gamekeeper. Hagrid’s... Read More →
Every Hogwarts Professor in Harry Potter
The explanation for a large part of this list is delivered in Dumbledore’s office in Harry’s sixth year, straight after a Pensieve memory in which Tom Riddle, by then Voldemort, asks him for a... Read More →
Every Confirmed Death Eater Named in the Harry Potter Series
At the end of Harry’s fourth year, in the hospital wing, Severus Snape pulled up his left sleeve and showed the Minister for Magic what was on his forearm. The Dark Mark, he told... Read More →
Every Horcrux Voldemort Created (and How Each Was Destroyed)
A book in the Hogwarts library called Magick Moste Evile brings up Horcruxes in its introduction and then declines to go on: “Of the Horcrux, wickedest of magical inventions, we shall not speak nor... Read More →
Every Member of the 1992 Olympic Men's Basketball Dream Team
Borislav Stankovic spent a decade as a veterinary inspector of meat in Belgrade before he gave his working life to basketball. By 1976 he was secretary general of FIBA, the sport’s world governing body,... Read More →
Every Player on the 2026 U.S. Women's Olympic Hockey Roster
Two goals were scored against the United States women’s hockey team at these Olympics. Not two a game. Two in total, across seven games and a fortnight, one a breakaway in the opening match,... Read More →
Every Player on the 1980 Miracle on Ice U.S. Olympic Hockey Roster
The United States did not win the 1980 Olympic hockey tournament by beating the Soviet Union. It won it two days later, against Finland, having trailed going into the third period. The Soviet game... Read More →
Every Player on the 2026 U.S. Men's Olympic Hockey Roster
On February 22, 1980, a team of American college players beat the Soviet Union 4-3 at Lake Placid, and for the next four and a half decades that game did all the work. It... Read More →
Every Secret Character Unlock Method in Super Smash Bros History
In 1999, the official Super Smash Bros. website ran a technique column – 77 numbered entries, written by Masahiro Sakurai himself – and technique 20 addressed the players who kept losing to the game’s... Read More →
