The cowled storyteller leaned back in his seat and began swirling firewhisky around the bottom of his glass, looking for all the world as if his tale was done.
After a long, expectant pause, Endora the cloaked witch exclaimed, “That’s it? That’s the tale of the Bette Noir Affair?”
“Hush, dear,” her companion, Merlin, warned.
In this week’s Caption Contest image, Albus Dumbledore distracts Cornelius Fudge in Hagrid’s pumpkin patch. Read all of the winning captions for this week’s contest now!
In this week’s Caption Contest image, Professor McGonagall, Madame Pomfrey and Severus Snape stand before a shocking sight. Read all of the winning captions for this week’s contest now!
by Briana B. In the fourth book, house-elves began to be a growing concern for Hermione (and many of our faithful readers). Along with this, we are introduced to the Hogwarts kitchen elves, including...
In this week’s Caption Contest image, The Fat Lady guards the entrance to Gryffindor Tower. Read all of the winning captions for this week’s contest now!
by Robbie Fischer The magical world is full of creatures that are half-this, half-that. And most of them are not things you would want to meet in a dark forest. Don’t even think about...
Different people react very differently to the elves’ situation. The Hogwarts house elves (HHE) think that they have the greatest job in the world (according to Fred and George in GoF); they’re happy with and proud of their situation. Winky is happy serving the Crouches but unhappy being a free elf. (Note that she’s still wearing her real clothes at Hogwarts and not the Hogwarts pillowcase. She’s thus not a “true” HHE; she’s serving wizards, but she’s still free.) Dobby is unhappy being the slave of the Malfoys and happy serving the wizard kind while still being free (at Hogwarts).
by Dan Acknowledgements: To give credit where it is due, I would like to point out the sources I have used. First, for much of the information on house-elves, I wanted to use a...
In this week’s Caption Contest image, the Gryffindor students are treated to a surprise visit by their head of house. Read all of the winning captions for this week’s contest now!
Amos Diggory
Set decorator – RIP
2007
Xenophilius Lovegood
Harry Potter
Composer
1991
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