O, September 1, you majestic date. Now hurry, everyone, the train leaves at exactly 11 o’clock! t’s the day when young witches and wizards cross through platforms nine and ten to board the Hogwarts Express. The Sorting Hat will sing its song, and students will head off to bed with full stomachs, awaiting their first day of classes.
Did J.K. Rowling use the number seven an astounding amount of times to argue that the series can be read as a religious parallel? Did she do this by accident? Or did she just really enjoy the number? Read more to see the ways the number seven appears in the series!
We’re sticking up for our favorite boy wizard against those who speak against him (and this time, it isn’t Voldemort).
Check out our top seven Fred and George moments that didn’t make it to the movies!
What really happened 20 years ago in the mind of Dudley Dursley during the Dementor attack in Little Whinging?
Cheers to Hedwig! Commemorating a fallen friend and heroine that many of us can relate to.
“We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”
Let’s play a game of Is This Character Really Kind?
Removed from a world where a hat gives you the ultimate aptitude test and you get to have “a cool wizard job” when you grow up, here’s what we reckon the “Harry Potter” characters would have gotten up to after they left school. Includes activism, infamy, and “The Wolf of Wall Street”.
Seamus Finnigan
Cornelius Fudge
1994
Fleur Delacour
1981
1994
1992
1993
1991
1981
Nymphadora Tonks
1995
1995
Yaxley
1996
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