Students of the Ferndale Comprehensive School in Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales have the added benefit of a little magic to their physical education program with the inclusion of a muggle form of Quidditch into their sports activities. The Guardian is reporting that a version of the game is being played at the school with …read more!

In perhaps a fun bit of Magic, or Muggle might at work, early concept art for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park is proving to become reality. The Orlando Sentinel reports today that just as we saw in this artwork for the Hogsmeade village portion of the theme park currently under construction in …read more!

It’s virtually impossible for a writer to come up with completely new creatures, situated in a completely new world, without drawing some sort of knowledge from the fountain of information currently available. Let’s take myth as an example. We’ve seen a lot of myths used as examples in Harry Potter. Werewolves are most commonly depicted …read more!

Update: Thanks to Ivana and RupertGrint.US and Order Partner RupertGrint.net for emailing to let us know that the recent trailer for Cherrybomb starring Rupert Grint was a copy not meant for mainstream release, and has been removed. Apparently the official one will be released shortly, and we will update with more when we can.

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine told me about a concept album the band Of Montreal put out called “Skeletal Lamping’ which featured a character, the lead singer’s alter ego, called Georgie Fruit. Georgie is a person who has been through multiple sex changes, from man to woman and back again many times. …read more!

UPDATE: Thanks to all who joined us! See you next time! Hi Everyone! Just a quick note to say PotterCast will be LIVE tonight at 6:00pm Eastern. Please join Frak, John, and this editor as we welcome longtime listener Onebre this week, who is filling in for a vacationing Melissa. There is sure to plenty …read more!

Jo’s Book Nook, the home of our non-Harry Potter Book Club, has now opened the communal reading of the first novel in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring. Located in our Leaky Lounge forum, Jo’s Book Nook offers all registered Lounge members the opportunity to join …read more!

As we (finally!) start to draw nearer to the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, news is starting to trickle out of the things fans can expect as we draw closer to July. ITN presenter Ben Shepherd has revealed he has made his third behind the scenes feature on a Harry Potter film, …read more!

Ok, this is the second time I’ve written up this blog. Let’s hope it save properly this time. Let’s that the title of this blog literally and figuratively. Vampires are pop-culture. It is no secret that Twilight has launched vampire-literature into the spotlight. But what is it about these types of books that make them …read more!

Literally or figuratively. You be the decider. For some reason vampire literature has become popular, more so with Twilight. So it seems almost like for a series to be popular, it has to have a good vampire storyline as a part of it, right? WRONG! (you knew I was going to say that!) Harry Potter …read more!