« Back to Contests Mirror of Erised Revelations Contest style=”text-align: left; font-family: Arial;”> align=”left” style=”font-family: Arial;”> “The Happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is.” Harry thought. Then he said slowly, “So …read more!

As readers will recall, Bloomsbury, the UK publishers of the Harry Potter novels, asked fans of the series to vote for their favorite character from author J. K. Rowling’s series. Voting concluded late last week and the results are in: Severus Snape was voted as the favorite character form the Harry Potter novels. Hermione Granger …read more!

Introduction 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 stories. For example, Ayn Rand was inspired by her political experiences from her native country, Russia, to write her novels. However, …read more!

« Back to Contests Skiving Snackbox ContestFred and George are doing market research for Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes and they need your help. The skiving snackboxes are a huge success and the twins are looking to expand their line. Help them by coming up with your own tasty treat to help get you out of class. …read more!

This week, a number of Harry Potter fan sites were given the opportunity to preview Harry Potter: The Exhibition which opens to the general public today. TLC took part in the preview, and spoke to a number of the people behind the exhibit. This editor’s report is now online below with additional photos from the …read more!

The 147th episode of PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast, is here for you this evening with an update regarding the PotterCast Acting Troupe and the latest Potter news. This week the PotterCast quartet discusses the confirmed September 25th Broadway debut of the play “Equus,” the announcement of a new “Beedle the Bard” contest from Amazon.com, …read more!

  Sirius and Buckbeak  A Hero’s JourneyBy Gwynog’srabbit  “You leave the world that you’re in and go to into a depth or into a distance or up into a height. There you come to what was missing in your consciousness in the world you formerly inhabited. Then comes the problem either of staying with that, …read more!

Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling is the subject of an interview which ran this past weekend in a number of Spanish language publications as part of the XLSemanal section. This interview first took place a number of months ago and features Jo speaking of her inspirations for events and characters which played heavily in …read more!

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 many people remain who are old enough to remember living through World War Two. Despite the bombing of cities in …read more!

Introduction Is Snape good or bad? Until J.K. Rowling finally blesses us all with Book Seven, it might be easier to tell whether the chicken or the egg came first. In fact, the terms “good” and “bad” pose problems. Not all mean people are evil, just as not all nice people are good; Sirius Black …read more!