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est. 2000 A.D.
Phase of the Moon: Waning Gibbous
5 GBP = 1 Galleon 
The Fantastic Beasts Saga Timeline
The dates for each of these events is derived from a close read of canon sources, including the scripts for Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. 1881 Albus Dumbledore is born c. 1883 Gellert Grindelwald is born c. 1891 Ariana Dumbledore is attacked by Muggle boys,… Read More
Minerva McGonagall is badly injured in a Quidditch match
McGonagall, a very talented Quidditch player, is fouled during the Gryffindor versus Slytherin match which decided the Cup. She suffered a concussion and several broken ribs. From this incident Minerva developed a lifelong passionate desire to see Slytherin defeated in Quidditch (Pm). Read More
Discussing The ‘Crimes of Grindelwald’ Reveal (MAJOR SPOILER WARNING)
UPDATE: I’ve now read the screenplay for the film and some interesting new details have been revealed. It undoes some of my theories in this post, but I’ve keep my original theories and put my updated ones below them in the “UPDATE” section. Anyway… MAJOR SPOILERS for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald below. Read More
Exploring The Most Enigmatic Character in Canon
With that headline, you’d probably be thinking that this is about Snape. But you’d be wrong. Snape was only mysterious while we were reading the books. Now that we’re finished, we have Snape pretty much figured out. Rowling did one of her classic “here’s all the answers, you’re welcome” chapters with him at the end of Deathly Hallows, just like… Read More
Quotes and Mis-Quotes
We all know the quotes. They’re turned into memes, they’re spouted by cosplayers — they seem to define the characters who said them. Except DID they say them? In many cases, the answer is no. Yes, Quirrell did say “Troll — in the dungeons — thought you ought to know” (PS10) And Dumbledore did say “It does not do to dwell… Read More
Salamander
The Salamander is a small, white lizard that lives in fire. It can live up to six hours away from the fire from which it spawned, but it must be fed pepper to keep it alive, and when the fire from which the salamander spawned goes out, the lizard dies as well. The heat of the fire affects the color… Read More
Nowhere in canon does is say that Hogwarts Acceptance Letters are delivered by owl or that they arrive on one’s birthday. In fact, the first chapter of Philosopher’s Stone indicates that they come in the post. Only when… Read More
“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”… Read More
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Harry's Dreams, Continued
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Since the original essay ‘Harry’s Dreams’ was written by Steve VanderArk in 2006, there have been quite a few new pieces of canon writing from J K Rowling. Two of these in particular contain further dreams of Harry Potter’s to examine. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows… Read More
Deleted Scenes - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
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Is “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay” really the Original Screenplay? Or is the widely available version actually “The Original Screenplay 2.0”? Every film has a screenplay or script. In Great Britain the norm is double-hole-punched A4 paper which is slightly taller and narrower than the North American… Read More
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Wizards and World War I
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There is very little background information about the Scamander brothers or the war service of any other wizards in canon (WFT). Therefore, we must depend on the books written about the making of the films and trust that the information in them was, at least, approved by JKR. We don’t… Read More
Why Did Jacob Kowalski take so long to Return to America?
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