Lily Thompson

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

Imagine this: two of the most iconic Young Adult Literature characters, Harry Potter and Percy Jackson, somehow find themselves in an arena where they are pitted against each other in a no-holds-barred, fight-to-the-death, magical Deathmatch, with the winner taking…I don’t know, use your imagination. Sounds pretty exciting, right? But hold your Pegasus and Thestrals, let’s

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

Plenty of people are still confused by that final scene in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2. After Harry goes through Severus Snape’s memories, he learns that he is one of Lord Voldemort’s Horcruxes and must die at Voldemort’s hand. Knowing that Nagini, Voldemort’s pet snake, will be difficult to kill as