This year J.K. Rowling will celebrate her 50th birthday. To help celebrate this achievement, Always J.K. Rowling is hosting their fourth annual “Light Up Jo’s Birthday” fundraiser for Jo’s charity, Lumos. This year, they want the celebration and honoring of Jo’s birthday to be even bigger and better than in years past (she only turns …read more!

Rhys Ifans plays many ostensibly “quirky” characters, and is best known to us as Xenophilius Lovegood. Like many other Harry Potter actors, Rhys Ifans works to be apart of the community of which he is from, and give back in anyway he possibly can. Originally from northern Wales, Ifans has become patron of a school …read more!

It looks like another Harry Potter Funko POP! figure is on the horizon! The 9th figure announced is that of Harry holding the Sword of Gryffindor. This will be the third Harry Potter figure in the collection; there were previously two others announced–Harry in his Hogwarts uniform, holding a wand, and a special Quidditch Harry, …read more!

We all noticed that J.K. Rowling changed her Twitter header recently. When asked by a follower to explain her previous header “woman,” Jo replied that it was a collection of scrap paper from her desk, typical tea cup, and gum wrappers sprawled onto her bathroom floor and photographed. Why the bathroom floor? Because her office …read more!

Jessie Cave,  who plays Lavender Brown in the Harry Potter films, has been keeping busy.  In an extensive interview with The Independent, Cave talks about her new book, her upcoming acting projects, and her relationship with Alfie Brown. The book, Love Sick, is a collection of Cave’s “doodles” that she posts online each day.  These …read more!

Lumos took to Twitter to talk about their newest partnership with the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre at NUI Galway,  a world-renowned research university in Ireland. The Lumos article detailing the expectations and goals of the partnership reports: ‘Research by the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre at the National University of Ireland Galway, with Lumos, will aim to increase …read more!

Emma Watson’s passionate leading of the United Nations HeForShe campaign for gender equality has won her not only a place on the Time 100 list of Most Influential People, but also led to her being named Observer Campaigner of the Year, under the 2015 Ethical Awards. The awards have been running for around ten years, and are based around celebrations …read more!

In an exclusive interview with Scotland Now, director John Tiffany talks about his early acquaintance with J.K. Rowling and his decision to work on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.  Tiffany is the former assistant director of the National Theatre of Scotland and has worked on several productions. I first met Jo years ago when …read more!

J.K. Rowling has announced (via Twitter) that Robert Galbraith’s The Silkworm has been shortlisted for the The Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Award. J.K. Rowling also previously tweeted that the second Cormoran Strike novel had been nominated for the Gold Dagger Award, just a couple weeks ago. It appears that poor Robert has mislaid his twitter password. …read more!

This week has been an important one for Harry Potter star, Daniel Radcliffe.  Within days of his invitation to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Radcliffe has signed on to a new film project and received another unique honor. Swiss Army Man, also set to star Paul Dano and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, …read more!