Dame Maggie Smith is certainly a larger than life character, as shown in her portrait revealed last week at London’s National Portrait Gallery. The painting, which stands six-foot-three, is by artist James Lloyd, winner of the esteemed BP Portrait Award.
Just a few days ago, MuggleNet staff members and Alohomora! hosts Kat Miller and Noah Fried joined up with another Harry Potter podcast, Hogwarts Radio, for their 128th episode, “Hyphen, Hyphen, Hyphen, Question Mark!” On this episode we break down the week’s hottest news stories which include: Emma Watson’s wax figure, the passing of Richard Griffiths, and Pottermore on Playstation.
David Cross, a real estate agent, has estimated that if Hogwarts were real, its worth would be approximately $204,102,000. He came up with his calculations based largely on tips from Harry Potter fans.
We had the opportunity to catch up with Alice Finch, builder of a LEGO Hogwarts that has recently garnered much attention from the fan community.
In September of last year, the fandom created film Battle of Hogwarts was released here on MuggleNet. The film was created by Oliver Hollingdale and Sunnymeade Films to showcase a battle between students and Death Eaters in a remote part of the Hogwarts castle away from the main action of the Trio (Harry, Ron, and Hermione).
Today we’re featuring a video from YouTube user wisteriabrayan who has built Hogwarts within Sims 3, a popular video game which allows users to build every part of the virtual landscape.
It happened last October, but the details are only just being released now about the Harry Potter-themed LEGO build that took home both the “People’s Choice” and “Best in Show” awards at BrickCon2012.
In today’s featured video, YouTube celeb tessaRoxx comes up with 100 things Potter fans can do in spite of not being able to go to Hogwarts, submitting such gems as “Ride an imaginary hippogriff” and “Randomly have a spaz-attack and clutch your forehead.”
Minecraft, is an online interactive game where players work together to build the landscape of the game itself and then fight off monsters and go on adventures within that environment. Today we are featuring gamer and ‘Potter’ fan SamCordingley, who has opted to model his Minecraft landscape after Hogwarts castle.
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