Our Remembrall just reminded us that today is also Neville Longbottom’s birthday. Accio cake!
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23 of J.K. Rowling’s Biggest Harry Potter Revelations
The secrets didn’t stop after the final book.
Yep, this happened: we ranked the careers of the Hogwarts alums.
Stranger Things meets Harry Potter as Matthew Lewis reveals “inspiration" behind his tattoo
As it turns out, Lewis has actually had the tattoo for several years now (sure, it was way before Stranger Things premiered, but nothing a Time Turner can’t fix, right?) and said at Dragon Con in 2008 that its real meaning comes from his soccer squad number. “It was on my mind for ages what to get, so I said, why not get that because it’s always going to be my squad number, it’s never going to change,” he said.
Harry Potter & the Cursed Child script due out in book form this summer
Can’t make it to London to see the Harry Potter play? Scholastic has you covered.
Well, kinda: That long-awaitingHPencyclopedia is finally, for-realsies in the works. As the author writes on her new website:
For a long time I have been promising an encyclopedia of Harry’s world, and I have started work on this now. Some of it forms the new content in Pottermore. It is likely to be a time-consuming job, but when finished I shall donate all royalties to charity.
There are a bunch of new UK Harry Potter covers (and you may or may not be able to buy them.)
See 6 more here.
23 of J.K. Rowling’s Biggest Harry Potter Revelations
“I’d also like to confess that I didn’t decide to kill Lupin until I wrote Order of the Phoenix. Arthur lived, so Lupin had to die. I’m sorry. I didn’t enjoy doing it. The only time my editor ever saw me cry was over the fate of Teddy.“
J.K. Rowling is writing a new movie set in the wizarding world.
REPEAT: J.K. ROWLING IS WRITING A NEW MOVIE SET IN THE WIZARDING WORLD!!
“Although it will be set in the worldwide community of witches and wizards where I was so happy for 17 years, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is neither a prequel nor a sequel to the Harry Potter series, but an extension of the wizarding world,” said Rowling, in a statement. “The laws and customs of the hidden magical society will be familiar to anyone who has read the Harry Potter books or seen the films, but Newt’s story will start in New York, 70 years before Harry’s gets underway.”
A new (re)generation
Iconic sci-fi franchise ‘Doctor Who’ is kicking off a new era, as Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor takes control of the TARDIS. Read EW’s latest cover story.