When I finished reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, I was seriously bummed. Dumbledore dying? I mean, I expected it to happen at some point, but I just wasn't ready for it this soon.

J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, has called Leaky “my favorite fan site” and “a wonderfully well-designed mine of accurate information on all things Harry Potter” that ...

Snape wears robes that have special sleeves that flare out a lot at the arms and are split up to the shoulder. Use the How-To Slytherin Robes tutorial available on about.com in their DIY Fashion ...

US 6 (4 mm) or US 8 (5 mm) 12-16" (30.5 cm - 40.6 cm) circular needle, size dependent on gauge ...

Some would say that Harry Potter is a Bildungsroman story, about the growth of the protagonist (Harry) from childhood to adulthood. Others argue that it is a fantasy story containing a quest ...

Exact gauge is not important for this pattern, just knit a little tighter than normal. Do not cut the yarn between color changes, just carry it loosely up one side of the scarf. CO 31st in black.

"Arithmancy looks terrible' said Harry, picking up a very complicated-looking number chart. However, at the same time in Hermione's life she discovers a class at Hogwarts that quickly becomes her ...

Jo Rowling has said in a 2000 interview, "Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most: all forms of intolerance, the whole idea of "that which is different from me is necessarily evil." 1 Not as ...

Out of everything I wanted to see happen in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, from couples finally getting together to Voldemort defeated, there was nothing I wanted to see more than a ...

It is evident that fictional stories have always thrived off the imaginations of their writers. Nonetheless, it is also true that most authors are inspired by the world around them to write their ...

There are a myriad of factors that make J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series so wonderfully readable, so universally popular among readers of every age and demographic. She has invented scores of ...

Recall from the movie, Harry, Ron, and Hermione play their way across a chessboard to pass the White players in a giant-scaled and dangerous game of Wizard Chess. In order for our heroes to pass ...