MuggleNet fans show their true colors: Check out 35 magical tattoos!

A couple of days ago we featured a story from another website, ChaCha.com, which showed the best and the worst Harry Potter tattoos from around the web.

At the end of the post I asked all you MuggleNet followers out there to submit your own 'Potter' tats to the site so we could feature them, and - oh man - you guys delivered! We received 35 submissions of awesome tattoos, including a lot of Hogwarts castles, Professor Snapes, and of course one popular book quote always kept coming up - check them all out for yourself in the MuggleNet gallery!

If you have created any kind of Harry Potter artwork you would like to see featured on our site, send an e-mail to fanart@staff.mugglenet.com.

ChaCha.com features the best and the worst 'Harry Potter' tattoos

Like many other 'Potter' fans I have occasionally considered getting a tattoo to express my love for the boy wizard. (Indeed one time while traveling in Amsterdam my friend nearly convinced me to get a lightning-bolt scar stark on my chest).

Now, I didn't get that tattoo, but much braver fans than I have gotten tats over the years, and recently ChaCha.com posted an article featuring some of the best and worst of them. They range from cute to incredibly detailed to.. kinda weird. My personal favorite headlines this article - as the image of Hedwig flying across the back is quite graceful.

Have a Harry Potter tattoo that you're proud of? Send them to fanart@staff.mugglenet.com and we can share with the world!

Add a little magic to your breakfast with these Harry Potter cereals!

Sean Clark - art-maker, comic illustrator, and eagle scout according to his Tumblr page - has created a variety of Potterized cereal boxes for your viewing pleasure. Check them out: Potter Puffs, Weasley Wheats, Granger Grains and Horcrux Crunch.

Which of these would you most like to eat?

Beware the surprise inside the box of Horcrux Crunch. It's a Horcrux.

See today's featured fan art... by J.K. Rowling

9GAG.com is a website that deals in the sharing of fun, and we were scrolling through when we found this particularly fun nugget for us - a drawing of Hagrid, Snape, Dobby, Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall and the trio (plus the Sorting Hat, Fawkes and Crookshanks) created by none other than J.K. Rowling herself in 1999. It's very interesting indeed to see how she originally pictured her characters!

You can see more Fan Art and learn how you can submit your own work to MuggleNet right here.

Featured Fan Art of the Week: Fawkes by Elizabeth

Today we bring you a glorious painting created by Elizabeth which captures Fawkes' intense profile. Beyond his head in the background you can see some Hogwarts-esque windows - and the blue tones really work well against the warm, red-orange tones of Fawkes. Great work Elizabeth!

If you would like to submit some of your own art to MuggleNet, send it in an e-mail attachment to fanart at staff dot mugglenet dot com. See even more Fan Art right here.

MuggleNet Exclusive interview with creator of the LEGO Hogwarts set Alice Finch at EMCC

Emerald City Comicon was nothing short of amazing, and at the convention we had the opportunity to catch up with Alice Finch, builder of a LEGO Hogwarts that has recently garnered much attention from the fan community. Alice was kind enough to answer a few lingering questions we had about the structure including a few additions yet to come.

The castle is so detailed that she even has customized personalizations for each character in the different rooms from the potions dungeon, staircases, portraits, boys dormitory, and much more. Alice revealed she had hundreds of printouts of Hogwarts to assist during construction, and that she worked on it mainly at night. "There's a little of every movie in it." she states as she indicates the dragon perched around one of the turrets. As we told you in our initial post, there are over 400,000 pieces that make up the castle. When we asked if this was a finished with project, she responded that she intends to build a quidditch pitch, to complete the castle.

We were also privileged enough to take a few pictures of the intricate detail of the castle to include the grounds, exterior, and interior:

• Great Hall entrance
• Greenhouses and Dungeons
• Central staircase
• Hogwarts exterior
• Great Hall/Boat house exterior
• Gryffindor Tower Room exterior
• Hogwarts library
• Hogwarts bridge

In addition, we came across a time lapse video of the set up at Emerald City Comicon (seen above).

What are your thoughts on Alice's work? Let us know in the comments below.

We would like you all to welcome our newest member of the MuggleNet Staff - Terrance Pinkston Jr., who has been a friend of our team for a very long time. He will be a valuable addition to our team and this is Terrance's first news post on MuggleNet. (Keith)