Lily Thompson

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

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

The Harry Potter franchise (or as it’s later known after its expansion, the Wizarding World franchise) is about magic, love, and a whole other universe of witches and wizards hiding in plain sight. But what a lot of people also forget is that the first six books and six films of the series is actually

Not a lot of people know this, but J.K. Rowling first wrote the Harry Potter books to be children’s fiction. If you look at the various editions of the seven books, you’ll find that there are covers that feature drawings that look like they belong in children’s fiction, but then you’ll also find editions that