You Bet Their Lives: Putting the Odds on Future Deaths
by Bill Hammon It’s been speculated over and over again. Who will die? How, and when will it happen? How will it affect Harry? What purpose does it serve to the story? Some scenarios...
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: A Very Different Approach to Dumbledore and Divination
by darkBlue In psychology, prophecies are dangerous things. Peoples beliefs can shape their choices and the outcomes of their actions. A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that, in being made, actually causes itself to...
CC #113: Week of December 19, 2004
In this week’s Caption Contest image, a patron of the Leaky Cauldron reads a book while his warm beverage stirs itself. Read all of the winning captions for this week’s contest now!
Wild Card Weasleys
by Rob Taylor Ever since the ninety-second page of Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, we’ve been accustomed to love our favorite wizard family, the Weasleys. We’re all familiar with the humorous Fred and George,...
The Magic Quill #34: Riddle Me This
Dear reader,
The holidays have come. Both the Quill that authors this column (based on your suggestions) and I, its humble assistant, are in need of a bit of a break. The quill has been sent, by certified owl, to Scrivenshaft’s for a much-needed tune-up (tip replacement, reservoir cleaning, polishing, brushing, etc.) while yours truly has a lot of broomstick hours ahead of him. So I hope you will bear with us as we replace two weeks’ worth of columns with a bit of something different.
BURN THE ANSWER TO LAZINESS!
by Liz Broomsticks, magic wands, enticing enchantments, addicting adages, and enough morality lessons to fill four and a half years of Lamb-Chop’s play-a-long. No, it’s not Halloween, and it’s not four and a half...
Light Magic and the Dark Arts
by Louise Fletcher It has been remarked by some that one thing conspicuously absent from the Harry Potter books is an explanation of what magic is, where it comes from, and how it works. Those people...
Voldemort’s Make-Over II: How Lily Did It and How Harry Will
by Lenora If you’re not familiar with my last editorial Voldemort’s Make-Over, the long and the short of it is: Voldemort is a vampire, a dragon, a unicorn, an Erkling, a basilisk, and Jo knows...
