What are some of the meanings behind the Weasley family’s many monikers? We looked into the etymology of their names.
Charles (we don’t know of a middle name), derives from the German name Karl, meaning ‘man
In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry discovers Dementors – and how they affect him more than his friends. Thankfully, his new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor gave him some wis…
to be honest, there’s no talk of being brave, or keeping his chin up or being a man
If the Potters hadn’t switched their Secret-Keeper from Sirius to Pettigrew, things could have been very different.
Only a thoughtlessly clever, good-looking, confident man could fail to see how those
Azkaban has existed since the fifteenth century and was not originally a prison at all. The island in the North Sea upon which the first fortress was built never appeared on any map, Muggle or wiza…
A young man was successfully smuggled out of the prison when his visiting mother
Would you be gardening with Professor Sprout or enjoying some biscuits from Professor McGonagall’s tartan biscuit tin? We’ve decided who your Hogwarts professor best friend would be, based on your …
That wise old man probably knows the answers to quite a few of your questions.
While we all know Professor Trelawney was behind the prophecy that anointed Harry as the Chosen One, that wasn’t the only prediction that she made. Here are 10 of Trelawney’s wackiest ones.
‘By the way, my dear,‘ she shot suddenly at Parvati Patil, ‚beware a red-haired man
Despite Snape’s best intentions, Harry, Ron, and Hermione often thought the worst of him.
One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.’
Sirius Black was a brave (if reckless) wizard who meant a great deal to Harry. In the latest in our ‚what if‘ series, we think about what would have happened if Sirius had cleared his name during t…
let’s recap why he was falsely accused in the first place and remained a wanted man
Not only was he the Dark Lord, he was also a bit of a dark horse. OK, sorry.
‘resentful admiration’ for his foe when watching Riddle as a fearless young man
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone introduced us to the Hogwarts ghosts, but ghosts, of course, are not confined to halls and passageways of wizarding schools. So how did they become such a b…
He asks her to conjure up the dead prophet Samuel, who appears ‘as an old man covered
