Happy New Year! Finally, we can put 2016 behind us and hope for a better year. As I sift through the “#worstyearever” hashtag, I feel as though I need to remind myself of the good things that were given us in 2016. Certainly, this doesn’t make up for all those that we’ve lost this year—Alan…
Halloween. The favorite holiday of witches and wizards, of ghosts and ghouls, of vampires and werewolves. The favorite holiday for anyone who wants to pretend to be someone else for a day. To live in a fictional character’s clothes. To walk in a fictional character’s shoes. As I sit here, periodically getting up to hand…
Back in October, I wrote an article entitled “The Day I Stopped Caring About Harry Potter“. While I recommend reading the article in its entirety, I’ll sum it up before I continue: I was upset that the story was going to continue after the “All was well” finality that Deathly Hallows brought us. Moreover, I was…
When Pottermore announced that the Cursed Child script would be published, I breathed a sigh of relief. I want to go back to London to see it, but I don’t know whether that’s possible right now. I would imagine that there are several Harry Potter fans who are in the same situation: they want to…
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…
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…
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…
Two years ago in December, J.K. Rowling announced via her Facebook page that she would be producing a play featuring Harry Potter in the West End (theatre district) of London. Since then, we have a few more details about it, but not much. Firstly, we have the title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. I’m also…