It’s been 20 years since Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was published, but the staff and students of Hogwarts still have things to teach us.
Malfoy and too nervous to listen to flying instructor Madam Hooch, resulting in a bad
Foreheads that flash, disappearing dodos, cries foretelling death and protecting yourself with a signed cucumber – and that’s only a few of them…
The bad news is that during that time it lays eggs – usually in a dark, secluded
Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could see inside people’s minds? On second thoughts, probably not.
It could drive you absolutely mad Imagine you’re having a bad day.
Pop on a maroon jumper and get ready to eat a lot of food.
Get yourself a swear jar and turn your bad habits into Galleons If you’re anything
At times we wish we could use the Memory Charm just to enjoy the big shocks of the Harry Potter stories all over again. Here are some of the biggest surprises we got while reading the books…
Sirius’s death We all knew something bad would happen.
Over the years, relationships between Muggles and wizardkind have been temperamental, to say the least. And where love is involved, things get even more complicated…
As he told his old friend Newt Scamander, the potion they used only erased bad memories
Where do wizards go on a summer holiday, anyway? We’ve ranked the most desirable ones we learnt about in the books.
Doesn’t sound half bad.
Did Professor Quirrell sleep on his back? And what does ‘Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!’ actually mean?
Friday when we look at all the times we should have realised that Quirrell was the bad
It is one of the sadder elements of the wizarding world that many feel it important their families don’t exhibit ‘non-magical’ blood.
The only remotely bad apple we seem to find in the Weasley clan is Aunt Muriel, who
Falsehoods, fibs, fabrications and fictions… but in the wizarding world, a lie sometimes isn’t all it seems to be.
character studies: everyone has the potential to lie, whether it’s for good or bad
