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…
Since the announcement trailer and poster were released on December 15th, Fantastic Beasts-related news has been coming at the fandom about a mile a minute. With limited time in my schedule lately, it’s been difficult to even keep up with reading everything, much less share the things that I’ve read on my own website. At this…
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…
Yesterday, I posted an article theorizing the answers to these questions: “Where is the American Wizarding school located? What is it called?” While writing that article, so many more questions floated to my mind’s surface, too many to include in the article I write yesterday. I therefore decided that an additional article to house these questions…
Congratulations! You are only about 440 days away from seeing Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them! While we have so many more answers than we had two years ago when Fantastic Beasts was first announced (I can’t believe it’s already been two years), there are still so many questions. Let’s start with what we know: David Yates is…
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…
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…
From the very beginning, this movie feels intense, like the open of the close that it is. Our first glimpse of Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour, with his unblinking stare (he actually blinks three times but who is really counting), starts the film, followed by the incredible music composed and conducted by Alexandre Desplat, underscoring…
Half-Blood Prince continues almost directly from where Order of the Phoenix ended, showing Harry and Dumbledore at the Ministry of Magic shortly after the battle with Voldemort. Reporters are taking pictures of them for the Daily Prophet. I love this opening. I thought it was brilliant. From there, the film continues in a muggle office…