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est. 2000 A.D.
Phase of the Moon: Waning Gibbous
5 GBP = 1 Galleon 
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
Golden fire
Golden fire is the description of an unnamed, mysterious, and extremely powerful jet of golden fire between two wands. The effect occurred in the midst of the Battle of the Seven Potters when Harry’s wand, on its own volition, turned in his hand and attacked Voldemort with a powerful blast of flames. According to Ollivander, a wand firing golden flames… Read More
Diving Back In: The HP Lexicon Minute Podcast is Back
I did something recently that I haven’t done in, well, almost two decades. I took a break from Harry Potter. Maybe this has happened to you at some point too. Real life becomes just too much and you have to give something up. For me, it was too many shows to direct and produce in too short a time along… Read More
Kingsley Shacklebolt removes the Dementors from Azkaban
As the new Minister for Magic, Shacklebolt takes on the dangerous task of removing the Dementors from the ancient, evil fortress of Azkaban (BLC, Pm). They had been serving as guards there for hundreds of years, a function which allowed the Ministry to maintain some measure of control over the evil creatures. Shacklebolt replaces the Dementor guards… Read More
Deleted Scenes: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
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 letter size of 8.5×11. To make flipping through the pages… Read More
Differences and Changes in the Text
The text of the Harry Potter novels stayed almost the same over the ten years it took Rowling to write the saga. However, some variations and changes were made. A number of differences exist between the Bloomsbury and the Scholastic editions of the Harry Potter books. Most of these differences were made by the US editors to clarify the text… Read More
Charity Burbage is murdered
The Muggle Studies teacher’s body has been rotating above the table around which Voldemort and… Read More
“Harry could not think of anything else to say, not least because it was highly unusual for Ron to be teaching anyone else tact.”… 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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How is Professor McGonagall in Crimes of Grindelwald?
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Though it is a charming bit of plot candy to throw out to eager Potterphiles, the mention of Professor McGonagall in the latest film “Fantastic Beats: The Crimes of Grindelwald” has caused a tidal wave of reaction all out of proportion to the size of the scene. The question… Read More
Where's the new canon?
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You might be here on the Lexicon looking for information about the characters, things, creatures, events, etc. from “Crimes of Grindelwald.” If so, you might have to have to wait a week or so for everything to appear. We have a spreadsheet of 143 entries which need to be added… Read More