When re-reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, I couldn’t help but wonder exactly what kind of snake Voldemort’s companion, Nagini, was supposed to be. Like the deadly swamp adder in the Sherlock Holmes story ‘The Adventure of the … Continue reading
London is one of my favourite places in the world, and one of my favourite places in London is the Natural History Museum in South Kensington. I hadn’t been to London since my Keeper for a Day experience at London … Continue reading
Tonight, me, Rachel, Jeremy and Abby got together one more time, to bring our Harry Potter film discussion to a close by giving our own rankings of the nine films (the eight in the Harry Potter series, plus Fantastic Beasts … Continue reading
I’ve re-read all the Harry Potter books and re-watched all the films, and participated in a series of podcasts to discuss the latter. I’ve read the script of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and watched Fantastic Beasts and Where to … Continue reading
Today, Rachel Wagner and I finally got round to what our Harry Potter re-watches were building towards: discussing Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them. Unfortunately Jeremy and Abby were unavailable this week, and it looked like it might be … Continue reading
After a very long wait, it’s finally here: Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, the spinoff based upon one of Harry Potter’s textbooks, set in the same world decades before Harry was born, and with the screenplay written by … Continue reading
It’s now just a couple of weeks until the release of Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, and me, Rachel, Jeremy and Abby have finished our series of Harry Potter discussion videos, by talking about Harry Potter and the … Continue reading
Our latest Harry Potter film discussion, this time for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 – discussing all sorts of things, from the problems with the trio’s extended camping trip, to whether the nudity in the Horcrux scene was inappropriate. It … Continue reading
As of this writing, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is the eighth highest grossing film of all time; in fact, it marks the only occasion that I actually went to the cinema to find the performance I … Continue reading
Chapter 33 – The Prince’s Tale The deaths of Remus and Tonks feel quite understated considering what significant characters they were. Still, it would be unrealistic for Harry to be present for every major character death. Well, I can honestly … Continue reading
