The Forbidden Forest played host to a lot of characters’ innermost fears (unless you were Hagrid). But the scary setting actually taught us a lot more about them than we realise.
His fascination with its creatures showed him to be an eternally curious man with
The classical language is everywhere in the wizarding world, if you know where to look…
called Janus Quirinus; Janus is deity of doorways and openings, and is depicted as a man
Not only was he the Dark Lord, he was also a bit of a dark horse. OK, sorry.
felt ‘resentful admiration’ for his foe when watching Riddle as a fearless young man
Fantastic Beasts shows us the wizarding world secretly nestled in the city that never sleeps. Keen to learn more about New York, Pottermore toured the Big Apple on the new Fantastic NYC Tour to fin…
once the tallest skyscraper in the city, which was very much the intention of the man
In just a month’s time, a new portal is opening into the wizarding world at Universal Orlando Resort. Yes, Universal Epic Universe will bring more Harry Potter goodness into our lives, with the ope…
(Super-super fans will know him as the man behind Gamp’s Law of Elemental Transfiguration
Rita Skeeter wrote damning reports on the likes of Harry, Hermione and Dumbledore in a world where Lord Voldemort was a thing. Rita, really? Pick your battles.
long time reporting on the fates of Voldemort’s Death Eaters, but what about the man
In some ways, Chamber of Secrets was more exciting than Philosopher’s Stone, because we’d just fallen in love with the book and were clambering over ourselves to carry on with the story.
Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher in the first place, but you can’t deny the man
Here are just some of the ways Bill Weasley showed he was the absolute cat’s pyjamas. Which, in case you were wondering, is far better than the ghoul’s pyjamas…
idle gossips said about her, was reduced to tears by Rita’s slander; Hagrid, the man
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone introduces us to the enigma that is Professor Albus Dumbledore. But what does his response to the mysterious Mirror of Erised tell us about what’s to come?
All of which is to say that Dumbledore is a pretty mysterious man.
It wouldn’t matter if it was the Mirror of Erised, Sirius’s two-way looking glass, or any old bathroom mirror: all these teachers would see reflected back is style.
Forbidden Forest: white-blond hair and astonishingly blue eyes; the head and torso of a man
