Most spells have no known creator. These ones do. From Snape's six textbook inventions to Voldemort's Dark Mark to Hermione's DA parchment jinx - every piece of magic in the series with a confirmed inventor. Read More →
‘Oh don’t mind me! Don’t apologize for bothering me! I’ll just hang here, wide open, until you get back, shall I?’ The Fat Lady says it in Goblet of Fire, and the Harry Potter... Read More →
‘One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one’s mind,’ Dumbledore tells a schoolboy who has just been caught inside his, ‘pours them into the basin, and examines them at one’s leisure.’ Harry’s own first... Read More →
Most readers can name four Animagi. The wizarding world has far more. Here is every confirmed Animagus across the books, Rowling's Pottermore writings, and the official games - with animal forms, registry status, and the story behind each transformation. Read More →
Severus Snape opened Harry Potter’s first Potions lesson by telling a room of first-years that there would be little foolish wand-waving, that many of them would hardly believe this was magic, and that he... Read More →
In June 1997 Bloomsbury printed 500 hardback copies of a first novel by an unknown author, and sent 300 of them straight to libraries. The name on the cover was not quite the author’s... Read More →
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