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The Magic Quill #82: The Catfish Burglar, Part Two

““After I fought off all the grindylows,” Sadie went on with her tale, “I swam further upstream with my powerful, tireless stroke. I had to squeeze through a tight gap in a network of curses strung across the fjord. Then, wearing dragon-hide gloves to protect my skin from the hallucinogenic algae, I pushed myself along…”

Actually, what happened was this:

The Magic Quill #79: A Break for Bestsellers

“Sporting memoirs mixed with do-it-yourself guides in this week’s Nonfiction List,” writes Daily Prophet book review editor Cicero Pica. “A tell-all exposé of the professional Quidditch league, a popular look at myths about Muggles, and a photo-essay about the most exotic, protected species of birds in the world were among the variety of subjects treated in the Top Ten Bestsellers.

The Magic Quill #77: Lilly Grate

Poor, sensitive Signor Boccachiusa could not stand to watch the duel between Il Comte and the considerably less dapper, but much braver, British wizard. While the lads from Durmstrang gathered around the fight to chant, “Ugly Stick! Ugly Stick!” and the other clowns fussed over the baby who was actually a twentyish-year-old man who had fallen victim to an overdose of Yesterday Pills, the mime wizard wandered.

Horcruxes and More in Slavic Mythology

by Annabel Lee (special thanks to Kate for help and encouragement) As soon as I learned what the Horcrux was, I couldn’t help thinking of the only other Horcrux I ever heard about. As...

The Dark Side

by silvercherubim The appeal of the dark side is not universal. For Harry and the Gryffindor posse, it doesn’t seem to have any appeal – at first glance, that is. Yet we can’t all...

Black, Albus…Rubeus?

Black, Albus…Rubeus?

by Lady Lupin Alchemy and the Harry Potter series are so deeply intertwined that new insights on the theme float around cyberspace on an almost daily basis. Many writers before me have highlighted pertinent...