Whether by Floo Powder, by Portkey, or by broomstick, it’s time to transport yourselves back over to Pottermore.com, because the first eleven chapters were released to everyone today. Users in the Hufflepuff house, who won the fourth House Cup on Pottermore, were given early access yesterday. As always, the artwork, sounds, narration, etc, are all…
Those who know me know that I hate “stupid” humor. Jeff Daniels recently won an Emmy for his character Will McAvoy in The Newsroom. Daniels is a brilliant actor in a brilliant role on a brilliant show. Imagine my surprise, then, when I learned that not only was Jeff Daniels Jim Carrey’s counterpart in Dumb…
I recently purchased “Rory’s Story Cubes“. Wanting to give it a try, I rolled the nine story cubes, studied them for a moment, and then just started writing. This is what I came up with. The cubes are pictured above. I tried to include every cube in the story, which I think I succeeded in…
J.K. Rowling could have written anything set in the wizarding world, and Harry Potter fans would’ve gladly donned their House robes and would’ve been waiting in line at midnight to read or see it. However, Jo (and to some extent, Warner Bros.) chose to make the first post-Potter wizarding-world franchise about the author of a…
Tumblr. n. The ultimate place where fandoms collide and often explode with “all the feels”. Following Rowling’s announcement regarding a film series about Newt Scamander, the Harry Potter fandom did just that: exploded. with. all. the. feels. Many posts have been simply reactionary, like this one, or this one, OR THIS ONE. However, in the two…
When “The Wizarding World of Harry Potter” theme park was opened to the public at Universal Orlando Resort in 2010, we were given small glimpses of the Hogwarts Express—the locomotive but not the rest of the rail cars—and Diagon Alley. (Ollivanders, the wand shop, was placed in Hogsmeade when the theme park was opened, despite…
All hail J.K. Rowling! Jo announced today on her Facebook page that she will make her screenwriting debut with a series of films based on the Hogwarts textbook, “Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them”. Technically, it won’t be a direct adaptation, since the textbook itself is not really written as a story, which means…
No one told me. No one told me that I would become so invested in these characters. No one told me that I wouldn’t be able to stop watching the Lizzie Bennet Diaries until I had seen all 100 episodes. I’ve never read Pride and Prejudice, mostly because I’d always thought of it as a…
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has a new song for its yet-to-come soundtrack. “Atlas” by Coldplay was released on Friday, and this song, even after my first or second listen, increased my excitement for the new Catching Fire movie by leaps and bounds—which I didn’t think was even possible, considering how excited I am for…
Just as I was reluctant to read the book, I was just as wary to watch The Hunger Games. Why? Because where the book brought to life ideas of the possibility of such a dystopian society—a society that glorifies the murder of innocent children by the hands of other innocent children merely to show the…