Lord Voldemort was deathly (no pun intended) afraid of Harry Potter. However, there was another boy he should have also feared: Neville Longbottom. Both boys had equal power to take him down. But why did the Dark Lord target one but not the other? That’s what we’ll explore here. Also, this may contain spoilers for …
Death is frequent in the world of Harry Potter. In no specific order, we will look at the characters who died. Since there are over a hundred deaths, we won’t be looking at every death. Just the ones we can remember. Also, we’ll only add confirmed demises, and the person has a name. Also, some …
The Harry Potter movies were a staple of many childhoods. In 2001 and competing with Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring came Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Sorcerer’s Stone in the United States), starting a chain reaction that would last well into the 2020s. From 2001 to 2011, eight Harry Potter …
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released in 2007 to much fanfare. In 2008, J.K. Rowling released an 800-word short prequel story set three years before Harry’s birth. The adventure was about James Potter and Sirius Black, Harry’s father and godfather, respectfully, after they left Hogwarts. It was written as an unofficial prequel. The …
Helga Hufflepuff, a cofounder of Hogwarts alongside Rowena Ravenclaw, Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin, gets very little credit. Her house has had many famous names come through over the years. It’s time they get some recognition. What a lot of people might not know is that Hufflepuff will often take the students who didn’t fit …
Known as one of the most dangerous magical creatures in the Harry Potter universe, Basilisks can kill someone by looking at them directly in the eye. Just ask “Moaning” Myrtle Warren. Affiliated with the Dark Arts, the first known Basilisk to be born was by Herpo the Foul, who hatched a chicken egg under a …
Not many people know the name, Tom Marvolo Riddle. But they recall Lord Voldemort as it sends shivers down one’s spine. Both monikers were a mystery in the Harry Potter books. This is until his return in The Goblet of Fire as the boy wizard, Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore race to stop him from …
Muggles are “the non-magic folk” of the Harry Potter universe. Depending on where the tale is set in the world’s history, Muggles are either aware of things going on with the magical folk or not. One example is how the American magic school Illvermony was founded. One of the founders was a No-Maj, the American …
David Tennant played Barty Crouch Junior in The Goblet of Fire, while four separate actors have portrayed Albus Dumbledore throughout the Harry Potter franchise. So who plays everyone’s favourite Gryffindor Head of House, and deputy headmistress, Professor Minerva McGonagall? There have been two lucky ladies who have played the fierce head of Gryffindor House. Dame …
Albus Dumbledore is one of the most recognisable Harry Potter characters ever. Throughout the Wizarding World media, the character has been portrayed by four different actors. Today, we will be explaining each of the men who have played the famed Hogwarts headmaster. Grab your butterbeer because some of this post will be a little depressing. …
The Harry Potter videogames were a staple of many childhoods. For us, we had almost every game based on the films from Chamber of Secrets down to Deathly Hallows Part 1. The list of Harry Potter videogames has grown since the release of the films concluded. That is what we’re going to be doing today, …
The mobile videogame Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is set in the years leading up to Harry Potter’s six years at the English Wizarding school. The same is set in the 80s when characters such as Nymphadora Tonks and the two eldest Weasley brothers, Bill and Charlie, are all students. Some of whom you meet on …
To most people, David Tennant will always be known as the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who and as House of the Dragon‘s Ty Tennant’s father. But David appeared in a bit part during 2005’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and some people might not know who he played as he was only in …
Say what you will about J.K. Rowling. This is not the post to discuss her feelings and opinions. Instead, we wanted to address a straightforward question; is Harry Potter a Muggle? This might appear to be a stupid question, but some readers are generally curious about the answer. We know, of course, that Harry Potter …
Harry Potter’s main goal throughout the seven Harry Potter books was to stop Lord Voldemort at all costs. Part of that plan was to destroy the details of the Dark Wizard’s soul that resided inside several items, becoming Horcruxes. We don’t know how one is made but we know the objects used in this heinous …
Harry Potter is full of twists of turns. The Marauders’ history is one of the franchise’s best but less developed aspects. This group of four Gryffindor students wandered through the halls of Hogwarts in the 1970s. The cliche would consist of Remus Lupin, James Potter, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew. The four friends loved creating …
Gryffindor is one of the most recognisable school houses in the Harry Potter/Wizarding World franchise. Founded by Hogwarts co-founder Godric Gryffindor, it is meant to be for the brave. However, not everyone who is sorted in Gryffindor deserves to be there. Godric Gryffindor, like Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin, had specific criteria for entering his …
For five books, it was believed by the audience that Severus Snape was a villain alongside Lord Voldemort. But he turned out to be a hidden hero who had been watching and protecting him for years. So where does the Half-Blood Prince thing come in, and why is he called this? Let’s explore this concept, …
We had an interesting question pop up in NicheIQ. Anyone who follows this site knows we have gotten topic ideas for Harry Potter, and we try to do individual posts as there has been every topic under the sun that has been written about in the almost 30 years since the first book’s release. So, …
Lily Evans and James Potter are the parents of Harry Potter. They were both twenty-one when Lord Voldemort killed them on October 31st 1981. Their deaths left their son orphaned and left to be raised by his only living family; the Dursleys, who were Lily’s sister, Petunia, brother-in-law Vernon and nephew Dudley. His parent’s deaths …
The wizarding world is full of unique characters. Some are named after mythological characters. In the case of Argus Filch, that was the point, as he has eyes everywhere around Hogwarts via his beloved cat Mrs Norris. From threatening to hang Harry Potter and others from their thumbs in the dungeons to hating the students, …
The Harry Potter franchise has a lot of families. The Potters. The Dursleys. And yes, even the Malfoys. But where does that put the Blacks? They were a large family that linked almost every known wizarding clan. But one mystery arose when Sirius Black’s brother, Regulus Arcturus Black, suddenly died and ended up with a …
Bellatrix Lestrange is irredeemable as a villain. Twisted, demented and loyal to Harry Potter’s most feared adversary Lord Voldemort, she is someone to be feared. The cousin of Sirius Black, the sister of Andromeda Tonks and Narcissa Malfoy, and the aunt of Draco Malfoy, Bellatrix is a nasty piece of work. She has murdered and …
Everyone has their favourite Harry Potter characters. From the golden trio to the villains, there is always an air of “who is the biggest, most important” of them all? Well, that’s what we’ll explore here. Without many of these Harry Potter characters, the storylines would not have played out as they should have. The Golden …
The Prisoner of Azkaban was the Harry Potter book that introduced the concept of the Patronus charm to the Wizarding World lore. Over the following few books, other characters are given a chance to conjure their Patronus. First, however, in this post, we will review Harry’s patronus and its meaning. In the third novel, Harry …
