Me and Mad Eye Moody
By Willie Dillon | The Irish Independent The first agent Brendan Gleeson met told him he was too fat, too old and too ugly for the movie business. Now he’s the star of the...
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The Declining State of Magical Education in Great Britain
A fair number of classes, including Care of Magical Creatures, Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Divination are so poorly taught and conducted that it would seem that legal action on the part of parents would be called for.
Patterns and Princes
by Ryan MacDougall Who is the Half-Blood Prince? I believe it will be a character that has been mentioned and/or briefly glimpsed in earlier books. He will be a friend/confidant/mentor to Harry much in...
CC #137: Week of June 5, 2005
In this week’s Caption Contest image, the trio encounter a disturbance at the Quidditch World Cup. Read all of the winning captions for this week’s contest now!
The North Tower #38: Mastering the Mind
What I do want to write an essay on today is the mystery of mind-control. So far, the way I see it, JKR has shown us four different kinds of specifically mental magic: Legilimency, Occlumency, the Imperius Curse, and different kinds of memory-altering spells (Memory charms, Confundus Charm). Since the first two are more closely related to each other than they are to the other two, I’ll split the analysis accordingly. But first, let’s go over the basic principles.
The Sphinx’s Riddle
by Andromeda Tonks As Harry Potter fans, we all know that the most important events in Harry’s life are those that he alone, out of all of his friends, encounters: the conversations with Dumbledore, the run-ins...
The Burrow: A Closer Look at Percy
by Tarah Toney Percy is perhaps the one of the seven Weasley children that stands out more than all of the others. Bill, Charlie, Fred, George, Ron, and Ginny seem to all be cut...
The U-Bend #22: 1 Minute 19 Seconds Of Trailer Fun
by Andrew Lee and Robert Lanto “How many other Viktors do we know?” –Hermione Granger (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) Crud, just when we think we manage to post something on time,...
Hermione’s Birthday
by Theresa S. JK Rowling told us on her website that September 19th is Hermione’s birthday. In this sixth book, it will be her seventeenth birthday. This means not three weeks into the first term, our...
