Happy New Year! What a year 2015 was. During 2015, we saw Pottermore’s complete overhaul (for good or for worse). We went to the very first GeekyCon. We saw the film adaptation of John Green’s novel Paper Towns. We saw the last Hunger Games movie. We saw season five of Game of Thrones and Downton Abbey. We read yet another Cormoran Strike novel. We saw…
As December marches nearer, every week we see more and more clips from The Force Awakens. From the trailers that we have seen so far, I feel as though I can definitively say that this is the reboot that Star Wars deserves. I don’t know any actual data for this question, but if I were to post a…
If this is your first time hearing about Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, you might be a “no-maj”. Fantastic Beasts is, of course, one of two schoolbooks of Harry’s that J.K. Rowling published in 2001 during the unbearably long wait between Goblet of Fire (published in 2000) and Order of the Phoenix (published in 2003). It’s…
Raking in $652 million in the United States alone, Jurassic World was by far the highest grossing movie this year. It also currently holds the title of the third highest grossing of all time, though I expect the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie, out December 13th, to beat Jurassic World handily, but let’s save that for…
About two months ago, I wrote an article titled “Magic in American Culture” where I discussed the possible differences between the American Wizarding World and the British Wizarding World. Within that article, I pointed out that Wizarding culture is very rooted in history and that it doesn’t seem to like change. In that article, I…
I feel a bit like Charlie Brown around Christmastime. Not feeling the same Christmas spirit that everyone else is feeling. I open Facebook and every post is “Cursed Child” this and “Cursed Child” that, and my reaction isn’t to open each article to devour the latest news. My reaction is a very Charlie Brown-ish reaction: that it’s…
Last Thursday, Pottermore Limited released the Harry Potter Enhanced iBooks series, not even one month since the new Pottermore was released, and little more than a week since the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Illustrated Edition, with illustrations by Jim Kay, was released. It’s been eight years since the last Harry Potter book was published, and now…
No. This is not some Time-Turner trick. Harry Potter was not his own great-grandfather. That would have been, well, WEIRD. Read J.K. Rowling’s explanation below for more about Harry’s ancestor Henry Potter: Henry Potter (Harry to his intimates) was a direct descendant of Hardwin and Iolanthe and served on the Wizengamot from 1913 – 1921. This…
Pottermore unveiled its new website today. Even though I will so completely miss Pottermore in its “original and best” form, there are many things that I’m loving so far about Pottermore in its newest iteration. 1. Mobile accessibility (but with less to do on the desktop version) Finally, I can access Pottermore on my smartphone and my tablet. But is…
Pottermore was launched to the public almost four years ago. Somehow, it simultaneously feels longer and shorter than that. I was lucky enough to become a Beta tester on Harry’s birthday, July 31st, 2011, a little over two weeks after the last Harry Potter film was released. A lot happened in that time. I went to…