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est. 2000 A.D.
Phase of the Moon: First Quarter
5 GBP = 1 Galleon 
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
Levicorpus
Levicorpus is a spell which dangles the target person upside-down by the ankle in mid-air. Read More
What is Magical Power in the Potterverse?
We are just two years or less from reaching the end of the Harry Potter series and many essential questions have been answered, either by the books themselves, by J.K. Rowling, or by cunning readers who have racked their brains to work out even the finest details of the universe she has created. But there is an ongoing debate that rather annoys me… Read More
Animagus
An Animagus is a witch or wizard who is capable of transforming him- or herself into the form of an animal. Ordinary Transfiguration of a human into an animal’s shape results in the human having an animal’s brain (QA1) (although Draco Malfoy‘s experience in GF13 is worth considering since he was apparently able to retain enough of… Read More
Hidebehind
The Hidebehind is a silver-haired spectre that lives in North America and resembles a tall, skinny bear. It is named for its ability to contort itself in order to hide behind objects of all shapes and sizes. It can also become invisible. The Hidebehind preys upon humanoids, killing them by disembowelment, and only a witch or wizard is likely to… Read More
Charity Burbage is murdered
The Muggle Studies teacher’s body has been rotating above the table around which Voldemort and… Read More
“At least no one on the Gryffindor team had to buy their way in. They got in on pure talent.”… Read More
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