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 →
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 →
J.K. Rowling documented 35 Ministers for Magic in her official Pottermore essay. Most readers know five. Here is every one, from Ulick Gamp in 1707 to Kingsley Shacklebolt, with everything Rowling wrote about each of them. Read More →
“I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death.” With those words in... Read More →
The Harry Potter series is the best-selling book series in history, with over 600 million copies sold worldwide and translations into more than 85 languages. What started as a modest 77,000-word children's novel published... Read More →
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 →
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry has always been defined as much by its teachers as by its students. Over a thousand years of magical education, the castle has employed brilliant scholars, dangerous frauds,... Read More →
Lord Voldemort's Death Eaters are among the most feared figures in the wizarding world - a cadre of dark wizards and witches bound by the Dark Mark and a fanatical devotion to pure-blood supremacy.... Read More →
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 →
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