Well, it's official. A Harry Potter TV reboot is in the works at HBO. Apparently, each season is going to cover one book from the series. Like many Potterheads, I think this is a horrible idea. First of all, the last Harry Potter movie came out only 12 years ago . That is way too soon to do a full-blown reboot of the series. I also think it's a miracle that the Harry Potter movies were made as well as they were, and I doubt an HBO series is going to be able to strike gold twice with the same st…

The boy who lived is going to be a father! Life is imitating art right now because it was confirmed that Daniel Radcliffe and his longtime girlfriend are expecting a baby! Hopefully, he won't give this infant a name like “Albus Severus Potter," but I trust him not to be as foolish as the actual Harry Potter. If there's any actor that I'm rooting for, it's Daniel Radcliffe. That man gave his childhood to us, leading the Harry Potter movies with impressive skill at such a young age. I'm stoked th…

Today marks three years since March 13th, 2020 , and we all know what that means. It has been three years since it all began. I remember I was in Missouri at my best friend's house, eating KFC and watching Unfriended . The guy who delivered the KFC said this was his first delivery. It was the beginning of one memorable year. Why did I mention this traumatic and terrifying time during a Harry Potter meme list , you may ask? If it weren't for March 13th and the events that followed it, I probably…

I have never been a big fan of the Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them series. I'm happy that more movies are being made about the wizarding world, but I wish that these were different movies. JK Rowling is clearly surrounded by yes men who let her write the screenplay for all of these movies, despite her not having any skills as a screenwriter. Her author brain wanted to insert ten million characters into Fantastic Beasts that nobody cared about. She wanted to flesh out all of their backst…

If you ask a random Harry Potter fan off the street what they think of Severus Snape , chances are you will get a strong opinion. Get 100 Potterheads in a room, and there's a chance none of them will share the exact same take on Snape. Over the years, fan opinions have slowly but surely turned against Snape. While some still view him as a hero, it's a lot more common for people to see him as no more than a common villain who was needlessly cruel to an abused child because he still has a crush o…

If there's one Harry Potter character whose hype I never really understood, it's Draco Malfoy . So many Draco fangirls see him as a misunderstood boy with secret depth and hidden pain. I don't think that the text of the books or the movies really supports that, but I believe they get this idea from the aesthetics of Harry Potter itself. Draco is in the dark Hogwarts house. He lives in the dark dungeons of the school and doesn't really have any other friends besides his lackeys. He is raised in…

Gilderoy Lockhart is one of the funniest characters in the entire Wizarding World. He's one of those goofy, incompetent, largely unimportant fake-out villains that could've only come out of the first couple of books. It is such a wonder how this man even got hired at this school. Professor Quirrell, I get it. He's a socially awkward guy who happens to have Voldemort on the back of his head, but at least he knows the basic tenants of magic! Lockhart is worse at magic than 12-year-old kids who ha…

Happy Boxing Day, Potterheads! It's days like today that really make me think about how Dudley Dursley is doing as an adult. Of course, I know Dudley Dursley isn't a real person, but there are thousands of kids just like him all over the world who are all grown up now. Kids who cried if they got 36 presents for Christmas instead of 37 are walking the earth as we speak. I like to believe that Dudley ended up as a better person than when we first met him in Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone .…

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I'm sure everybody, no matter what Hogwarts house they're in, wishes they could spend their hours of study and leisure in the Gryffindor Common Room . None of the other common rooms could compare to where Harry, Ron, and Hermione spend their Hogwarts days between classes. The Slytherin Common room would feel like you're surrounded by concrete, with the AC always turned up way too high. There's probably a lot of fluorescent lighting that would do a number on the complexion. The Hufflepuff common…

My first exposure to Harry Potter was through a meme. Call it a meme, call it one of the most influential viral videos of the late 2000s, call it whatever you please. No Harry Potter parody media will ever top Potter Puppet Pal's rendition of The Mysterious Ticking Noise. What could be more fun and simple than Harry Potter characters repeating their names to the catchy rhythm of a metronome? “Snape, Snape, Severus Snape DUMBLEDORE” is still stuck in my head after all these years. The fact that…

The future of Harry Potter movies is unclear, as the Wizarding World's biggest spinoff series has been nixed. This week, it was reported that the rest of the Fantastic Beasts series is being quietly canceled due to the lackluster financial performance of the last film and Ezra Miller and J.K. Rowling's respective scandals. In all honesty, I'm not that mad about this. Fantastic Beasts was a weird series, and I somehow got through it without caring about a single one of the characters. I feel lik…

It never fails to boggle my mind how many people are fans of Harry Potter because they just want to date Draco . I've personally never wanted to be in a relationship with any of the characters in the Wizarding World, but I'm not a hater of those who do. If you started reading or watching the series when you were a teenager, it makes sense if your first crushes were Tom Felton or Daniel Radcliffe. However, nothing could have prepared me for stumbling upon the Harry Potter side of TikTok to find…

Gilderoy Lockhart is one of the funniest characters in the entire Wizarding World. He's one of those goofy, incompetent, largely unimportant fake-out villains that could've only come out of the first couple of books. It is such a wonder how this man even got hired at this school. Professor Quirrell, I get it. He's a socially awkward guy who happens to have Voldemort on the back of his head, but at least he knows the basic tenants of magic! Lockhart is worse at magic than 12-year-old kids who ha…

One of the best things about the Harry Potter books is you can imagine yourself living in them. You might think that many children's series provide escapism and character identification. While that's true, the Wizarding World allows you to imagine yourself as just a regular person within the world. You don't need to be a heroic and brave Gryffindor to want to go to Hogwarts. Even though I'm not likely to be leading any revolutions, I still would like to attend that school. Many of Potterhead's…

If you ask any Harry Potter fan what they think of Severus Snape , chances are you will get a strong opinion. However, get 100 Potterheads in a room, and there's a chance none of them will share the exact same take on Snape. Over the years, fan opinions have slowly but surely turned against Snape. While some still view him as a hero, it's a lot more common for people to see him as no more than a common villain who was needlessly cruel to an abused child because he still has a crush on his dead…