Is it possible to define Snape as a good or bad character? Or is he simply far too complicated?
have lived.
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
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
Do you feel more cunning than courageous? More loyal than wise? Everyone has doubts about who they are and – in theory – having a wise old hat tell you once and for all sounds like it would bring a…
And of course, there’re the characters we feel might have better belonged elsewhere
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?
Harry, Ron and Hermione were obviously the best of friends – you can’t save the wizarding world together and not be tight. Yet, who was the best friend of the bunch? We investigate…
We have to start off by mentioning his generosity.
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.
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
