This week has seen announcements far and wide as Cursed Child revealed plans to storm Australia in 2019,  Potter actors conjured their ideal wizarding careers and J.K. Rowling herself took a Buzzfeed quiz. Magical Christmas decorations have also been unveiled at the Wizarding World,  as well as a brilliant line-up of fan favourite events set for A Celebration of Harry Potter 2018. …read more!

O, Draconian Prince! Oh, Lame Snape!1 Decoding the Anti-Harry By Caltheous Logic dictates that if the evidence shows something is not in set A and not in set B then it is in a set by itself. What does this logical argument tell us about the character of Severus Snape? It seems quite widely believed …read more!

Alchemy and Harry Potter (Part II)  By ArianhrodNote: Part I can be found in Issue One Flamel was born in 1330 and died in 1418, along the way becoming one of the greatest alchemists in the world. The Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris contains works copied in his own hand and original works written by him. …read more!

Ponderings on the Fidelius Charm: “Shhh! It’s a secret!!” By BearPaw The only description we have of the Fidelius Charm in the Harry Potter series (up until the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) is from Professor Flitwick: “An immensely complex spell [¦] involving the magical concealment of a secret inside a single, …read more!

The Times Online has an absorbing new article online which examines the many translations of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” we’ve been telling you about in recent months. This article details the race that some foreign publishers have taken to satisfy the demand of their readers and of fans’ own strides in translating the …read more!