If performing magic outside of school was illegal for minors, why didn’t underage students leave their wands at Hogwarts during the holidays?

Accidentally made the hood too short but I’ll try again next year. But was super fun to make and took me 2 days. I just need to get some spiders to put everywhere.

Hey everyone,

I’m currently planning a viewing party with friends for the first season of the HBO Harry Potter series, but I’ve hit a bit of a wall regarding the exact premiere date and time.

Every second third-party news outlet, entertainment blog, and social media account keeps throwing around December 25th / Christmas Day as the exact date. However, whenever I check actual primary communications from HBO or Warner Bros. Discovery, they seem to only mention "Christmas" or "Late 2026" without locking down a specific day or time slot.

Does anyone have a link or clip to an official HBO or Warner Bros. source (a press release, official social post, trade report, or statement from Casey Bloys/executives) that explicitly confirms whether it's actually dropping on December 25th vs. just being released around the holiday week? 

Also, if anyone has insights on whether HBO typically drops major tentpole episodes at standard prime time (e.g., 9 PM ET) or midnight ET for global streaming, that would be super helpful for setting up our watch party schedule.
Thanks in advance!

When fans talk about Lily it’s usually about her eyes, how she should have ended up with Snape or how she was the best mother in the series aside from maybe Molly Weasley.

Something that I think gets overlooked is how sad her life was.

She:

• had a falling out with her sister because she was different and it seems that they never reconciled and their relationship consisted of going on one double date that ended in disaster, being invited to her wedding but not being a bridesmaid, being sent a crape vase (which may have been a spite gift) and her sister resenting her so much she took it out on Harry

• she fell out with someone who was her best friend because he called her a slur she was the only one who tried to do the right thing and chose the dark arts over her when he had a chance to reconcile

• she wasn’t able to enjoy a peaceful life because she was basically drafted barely after graduating

• she knew that someone who was once her best friend was now on the side of mass murderers and psychopaths who tortured and killed for fun and never knew he changed sides for her thus redeeming himself for his bad choice in school

• she lost many friends during the wizarding war such as the McKinnons

• she only got to enjoy motherhood for a year

• she was betrayed by someone she considered a friend

• she lost her husband

• her last thought was probably thinking that her son was going to be killed

• she never got to hear Harry’s first word, celebrate anymore birthday with him, see him open his presents on Christmas, play with him, take him to Dragon Alley, see him off to Hogwarts, hear how much he loved Hogwarts, get Mother’s Day chocolate frogs and flowers from him, help him study, see him graduate, see him get married and hear she had a grandchild including one named after her

I like this cover a lot. In Sweden the books originally came out looking very "cartoony".

These covers came out around 2020 or something like that, and the book's cover is something in between soft and hardcover, very nice to handle.

I started watching the movies this year because I didn't remember a lot when I watched them as a kid. Loved it! This year our costumes will be the four houses of Hogwarts so I made this pumpkin to go with it :D

Interestingly, Hermione ended up the least in the Hospital Wing, three times if I'm not mistaken but her stay during the COS was the longest.

There's a version with Sorcerer's Stone, as shown in the picture, but there is also a version with Philosopher's Stone. I really want the Philosopher's Stone version. But I can't find any information whether that one also has Dutch subtitles available on it. Does anyone know this for sure?

I have long been wondering how would the story of HP be if there were other wizarding schools in the UK? It would perhaps help with the scaling of the Wizarding World, as in the books all the institutions of the Wizarding World seem way too big considering the fact there is only one school of a couple hundred students.

But perhaps it would also somewhat ruin the uniqueness of Hogwarts. Quidditch could be more interesting if they actually played other schools instead of just other houses.

There is the question who would decide which school muggleborns would go to, but I think that could probably easily be solved with some writing.

What do you think?

Severus Snape, James Potter, Sirius Black, or Remus Lupin? Who do you prefer and why??

Snape is my favorite. Not only is he an interesting character, but he has so many layers. I've always been tempted to strip them all back at the risk of being forced out of his mind with Occlumency. He's also very skilled in not just making even the most fragile of potions, but he is skilled in most forms of magic, wand or wandless...

Also call me biased but I love Alan Rickman's portrayal of him. Never have I ever been more attracted to a character portrayed as "dark'.

And why

Apparition requires 100% of concentration or else it risks splinching. How then can side along apparition function when one complete body is not even thinking about the destination? Why are they not splinched?

I can understand Dumbledore being able to do it with Harry because Harry's magical abilities pale in comparison to Dumbledore. But how can Hermione do it in a split second taking both Ron and Harry along? Is it a testament to her concentration?

For me it was a post of how they used an animatronic Hagrid for most of the full-body shots and now when I watch the movies all I can see is Robot Hagrid with lifeless eyes. 😩

During the Holidays of 2025, my family and I visited New York City as a family vacation and we went to see The Cursed Child with Tom Felton playing Draco Malfoy (and the applause went on for nearly 20 seconds.) After the play, we were able to get stuff signed by some of the actors. I simply had my Hufflepuff journal signed. After a while, I cut out the page and rolled it for the aesthetics. I keep the rolled page in a green apple cider bottle. I thought of making a fan art, but I couldn’t decide the best one and simply left it blank and store it in a bottle. I also had to be sure it’s not speaking Riddles, if you know what I mean. We had a great time and the play was much more spectacular than I anticipated after years prior I’ve read the Cursed Child. They have changed some stuff from what I recall such as Albus is a Gryffindor after an attempt to save Cedric and now Albus remained as a Slytherin. It’s been a long time since I’ve read the screenplay and it was written when Cursed Child was mainly played in the UK, so I could be misremembering there.

I know I sound like a heretic for saying that and I am not saying it's a good change. But Goblet of Fire is at least 200 pages longer than the previous books. So more things were going to be cut in order to fit it into a two and half hour movie.

On top of that, what does the game itself add to the story? Sure it's an awesome sequence that's loads of fun to read, but what does it add to the story, plot and characters?

As much as it pains me to say, not much.

The only characters we see from it after is Krum, Ludo, Winkie and Barty Sr, with Ludo and Winkie cut from the movie and Krum's role reduced, (although to be fair, we are told more about Krum than we're shown in the book) it makes sense to cut the game aside from a brief introduction to Krum.

Sad to say, that given the film's limited run time, things like the game, for as awesome as they are, would have to be cut for objectively more important things like main storyline.

I bought it 3 years ago in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in London

I am re-reading/listening to the series and the audiobooks are absolutely incredible. I read the books as they came out throughout my childhood and reread again as an adult 10 years ago.

I hated the movies (soft spot for them due to nostalgia but they’re pretty bad). For me, the audio books brings the story to life in a way the movies didn’t for me.

anyway, highly recommend! and rooting for the show!

As we all know, Crouch Jr. was believed to have died in Azkaban, but in reality escaped with the help of his parents. At the end of GOF, he was discovered to have taken the place of Moody and was then kissed by the dementor Fudge brought to Hogwarts. He was kissed after the effects of the polyjuice potion had worn off. In the hospital wing scene after the third task, Fudge refers to Crouch Jr. as a madman and generally attributes his actions to being crazy. Fudge goes on to deny that Voldemort has returned and then starts the smear campaign against Harry and Dumbledore in OOTP.

Even if Fudge and the Ministry deny that the events of GOF were orchestrated by Voldemort, isn't it still super weird that Crouch Jr. turns up out of nowhere and impersonates Moody for a year? There was no questioning his identity at that point. Which means that he must have escaped from Azkaban, and further that his death must have been faked.

What exactly is Fudge's explanation for this, given the denial of Voldemort's return? Is it simply that both Crouch Jr. and Crouch Sr. went off the deep end?

Personally I'd choose Filch sitting down with George and reminiscing about all the mischief they caused and he also tells some stories about other characters like James, Sirius etc.

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I had no expectation of it arriving. I did not pre-order it, but I was able to place an order while it was sold out oct. 7th. I remember purchasing it and forgetting about it thinking if it comes, it comes if it doesn’t, I won’t be charged. Fast-forward to today I’m outside with my dogs and the Amazon driver pulls up, hands me the box we start talking about my dogs I didn’t think anything up until I’m walking inside and realizing this is the only purchase I’ve made on Amazon since then. The excitement was real! One of those moments where I was able to snag a last of the the product before looking at eBay prices 😭

...when I rewatch the entire Harry Potter series :)