We lost Dumbledore at the end of Harry’s sixth year at Hogwarts.  A slow poison weakened him.  That has certain parallels with the death of the actor Richard St John Harris who played Albus Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films.  Harris was diagnosed with Hodgkins lymphoma, a blood cancer, in 2002 and died …read more!

Today marks the 25th birthday of Ezra Miller, who portrayed Credence Barebone in the first Fantastic Beasts film, and will reportedly return in the next instalment! Ezra has been busy on the sets of Fantastic Beasts 2 and Justice League this year, roles he told us were letting him live out two of his childhood dreams. After managing to persuade Warner Bros …read more!

September 26 is the birthday of Harry Potter’s first Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Quirinus Quirrell. To mark this day, let’s take a look at some of the surprising details we noticed upon our celebratory 20th Anniversary re-read of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, as well as some facets of this interesting character …read more!

We know that wandmaker extraordinare Garrick Ollivander was born on September 25, but we don’t know the year.  Since Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was released, there has been speculation that he was born in or before 1907 because he is listed as the wandmaker on a 1926 wand permit application.  In order to …read more!

The Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts casts continue to feature in the news regularly as the release of upcoming projects nears, film details surface, trailers are unveiled, convention announcements are made, charities are supported, and interviews are given. It would be hard to keep up it all–but we’ve got that covered for you! Here we review the …read more!

Today we celebrate Tom Felton’s 30th year–so let us reflect on what he has meant to the Potter fandom and how he has grown professionally through the continued passing of birthdays! As one of the young stars of the Harry Potter series, he literally grew up before our eyes, at first raising our ire as the smug, obnoxious, …read more!

Today, September 19th,  the brightest witch to (probably) walk the ground of Hogwarts turns 38 this year! As a student at Hogwarts, she learns everything from creating an extremely difficult Polyjuice Potion to punching Draco Malfoy in the face. So let’s review some of my personal favourite Hermione moments and quotes!  (in no particular order because they’re …read more!

Over the course of eight films, the Harry Potter series changed and matured along with its actors–and in many ways, that was a good thing! The young actors grew up and honed their skills, new composers developed intricate and moving scores to fit the increasingly dramatic themes, costumes changed to fit the story, and even …read more!

Josh Herdman, best known to the Potter fandom as Slytherin and Draco Malfoy sidekick Gregory Goyle, celebrates his 30th birthday today. Herdman appeared in all eight of the Harry Potter films and managed to live through the Battle of Hogwarts to the end of the saga even though his cohort in crime, Vincent Crabbe, perished …read more!

How do we acknowledge the birthday of one of the most despicable characters in the Potter story, if not all of literature? How about taking this time for a little supposition? As we’ve been told, Dolores Jane Umbridge, Senior Undersecretary to the Minister of Magic, former Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, and Harry …read more!