December 2019

Ever since Harry Potter and the Cursed Child came out, there’s been a spotlight on the entire series and questions and accusations about how inclusive the original books are to people of color. This started in 2016 when the West End production cast actress Noma Dumezweni – an award-winning black actress – to play the […]

One of the darkest magical objects in the Harry Potter series, horcruxes play an important part in the series. Author J.K. Rowling says that the books are about accepting death, so the fact that these Horcruxes are made with the purposes of escaping death make the books more complicated. In the Harry Potter universe, Horcruxes

In an earlier article, we pit Percy Jackson against Harry Potter in both a magical deathmatch, and a franchise showdown, with both instances seeing Harry and the gang triumph over the Riordan’s demi-gods. But that’s Young Adult Literature stuff; how would The Boy Who Lived live up against the granddaddy of modern fantasy epics: The

It’s been almost 18 years since the first film of the Wizarding World franchise, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (or Sorcerer’s Stone, if you’re from the United States) first came out. And while the series features plenty of magical creatures civilization has known for centuries, no one ever seems to remember the scene with

With the impending release of the rest of the Fantastic Beasts series (for better or worse), I feel like it’s high-time to relive the original magic of the Wizarding World by having a Harry Potter movie marathon! As one of the very few film series to be Certified Fresh for every one of its movies,

Nowadays, there’s a national day for almost everything. For example, April 4 is National Walk Around Things Day. And every third Sunday in July is National Ice Cream Day in the United States. And every November 10, children around the world celebrate the unofficial holiday of Sesame Street Day. For National Harry Potter day, however,

I get it, we’re all Harry Potter fans, but you have to admit: some of us are just more into the Harry Potter series than other people. That’s right, we’ve collected some of the vaguest, most overlooked trivia from the Harry Potter books and compiled it into this (non-exhaustive) master list that you can use

In an earlier article, we analyzed Percy Jackson and Harry Potter strictly from an abilities and equipment sense to see who would survive a no-holds-barred magical deathmatch (spoiler alert: Percy wins), but now let’s take a look at how their respective franchises did and see which one raked in the bigger bucks to bury the

Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin – four houses, and an endless debate about which Hogwarts House in the Harry Potter series is the best. As a proud Slytherin, I think a lot of people would think I’d be biased if I said the best house was my own house. But as someone who studies and