Being sorted into Gryffindor felt a bit like sending away for one of those DNA analysis kits and finding out that I was 80% Viking; like I had fundamentally misunderstood the very bones of myself.
brazenly brainy and secretly petrified that one day someone might discover that I have
It might feel disheartening to realise that you and your friends are in different Hogwarts houses. Surely that would mean you were incompatible? Nope! The houses are more similar than you think. To…
One thing we have learnt is that you can’t assume that you know exactly what someone
Is it possible to define Snape as a good or bad character? Or is he simply far too complicated?
have lived.
This week, Harry Potter: Magic Awakened launched worldwide, having already cast a spell on fans across mainland China. To celebrate the mobile game’s extended release, we spoke to Creative Director…
I’ve been on the project for a year and a half, but there have been some people who
It’s a given that Harry, Ron and Hermione would be at the top of our Christmas dinner guest list. Here are some of the other witches and wizards we’d like to share a wizard cracker with, and who we…
You may have to listen to Celestina Warbeck once the plates are magically cleared
Can you believe it has been eight years since Harry Potter and the Cursed Child debuted at the Palace Theatre London? We look back at the success of the eighth Harry Potter story on its eighth anni…
queuing to see it, it’s no surprise that since the opening night in London there have
The Malfoy name comes from old French and translates as ‘bad faith’. Like many other progenitors of noble English families, the wizard Armand Malfoy arrived in Britain with William the Conqueror as…
of land in Wiltshire, seized from local landowners, upon which his descendants have
Our exciting new exhibition reveals a world where nothing is as it seems. Where magical beasts and fantastic animals share the same extraordinary skills, and where nature is revealed to be just as …
But could they have their origins in nature?
As Dumbledore once told Harry, predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed, even for magical folk. But, from centaurs to Seers to those who just enjoyed the odd bet, there were some i…
enjoyed the odd bet, there were some in the wizarding world who were willing to have
The journey of Neville Longbottom: how the clumsy Hogwarts student went from zero to hero.
After all, he must have felt like an outcast.
