Being sorted into Gryffindor felt a bit like sending away for one of those DNA analysis kits and finding out that I was 80% Viking; like I had fundamentally misunderstood the very bones of myself.
brazenly brainy and secretly petrified that one day someone might discover that I have
Harry, Ron and Hermione were obviously the best of friends – you can’t save the wizarding world together and not be tight. Yet, who was the best friend of the bunch? We investigate…
We have to start off by mentioning his generosity.
Crystal balls… tea leaves… Seers… tarot cards… the art of Divination is a divisive one, both in the wizarding world, and in our real-life Muggle world. Today, gaze into the beyond with us a…
In real life, Seers have been thought to walk amongst us Muggles.
Birthdays can only mean one thing (unless you live with the Dursleys) … presents! And Harry certainly got his fair share. From Hedwig to a pair of old socks, we’ve ranked the gifts this young wizar…
Yet, we do have our reasons for putting it so low down on this list.
Sure, you get a wand, but would you miss your mobile phone? Here’s a few things about the wizarding world that may make us pause for thought if we finally did get our Hogwarts letters…
Money trouble You’d have to have an Outstanding in Arithmancy just to deal with wizarding
How on earth did the school manage to stay open year after year?
Witches and wizards have access to remedies that we can only dream of.
Do you feel more cunning than courageous? More loyal than wise? Everyone has doubts about who they are and – in theory – having a wise old hat tell you once and for all sounds like it would bring a…
And of course, there’re the characters we feel might have better belonged elsewhere
As Dumbledore once told Harry, predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed, even for magical folk. But, from centaurs to Seers to those who just enjoyed the odd bet, there were some i…
enjoyed the odd bet, there were some in the wizarding world who were willing to have
The journey of Neville Longbottom: how the clumsy Hogwarts student went from zero to hero.
After all, he must have felt like an outcast.
The Malfoy name comes from old French and translates as ‘bad faith’. Like many other progenitors of noble English families, the wizard Armand Malfoy arrived in Britain with William the Conqueror as…
of land in Wiltshire, seized from local landowners, upon which his descendants have
