For many of us, being Sorted into one of Ilvermorny’s Houses has shed new light on our connections with the original Hogwarts Houses. Horned Serpent may be a place for scholars, but Isolt Sayre’s Gaunt heritage has been making me think about my Slytherin side.
It’s been 19 years since the original publication of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”, and a lot has changed since then. These are some of the series’s best quotes for dealing with change.
There’s only one known LGBT relationship in the “Potter” series, and it isn’t even technically included in the text. For Potter Pride, we talk about the “Potter” series’s exclusion of Dumbledore and Grindelwald’s romantic relationship and why it matters.
The upcoming additions to the “Potter” story have provided many new areas for fan disagreement and debate. Here are some of J.K. Rowling’s words from her PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award acceptance speech that can help us keep the discussions from devolving into flame wars.
Hogwarts’s best teachers had plenty of lessons to teach us, inside and outside of the classroom, but what can we learn from Hogwarts’s inept instructors?
Still wondering what the finer points of the “Fantastic Beasts” plotline might be? We use animal symbols in literary alchemy to see what the beasts of “Fantastic Beasts” can tell us about Newt’s adventures!
After reading Isaac Newton’s notes on how to create a philosopher’s stone, we decided to investigate the true cost of producing this renowned rock.
The Ministry of Magic hopes to keep the general public informed of the risks they may face by interacting with half-breeds. Do your best to avoid these subhuman creatures at all costs.
If J.K. Rowling was going to make Ravenclaw’s mascot an eagle, why didn’t she just call the House Eagleclaw? What makes the king of the birds a more fitting mascot for the intellectual House than its namesake raven?
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