Half the joy of being a Harry Potter reader is the time spent alone with books, curled up quietly while adventures and dragons and feasts come to life in your mind. The other half is the joy of being part of a fandom – a community, in person and online – that has shared the
Happy birthday, Severus Snape! We don’t know the exact January date that Dumbledore told him he’d have to teach Harry Occlumency, but it would certainly be typical of this character’s luck if it happened on his birthday, wouldn’t it? Let’s take a look at those lessons and see what was going on in Snape’s mind
No real-world figure has reminded me of Snape more strongly than Michael Cohen, the former fixer for ex-President Trump. When he described himself as “villain or savior, depending on your point of view,” and discussed his efforts to expose the crimes he once helped to commit, I had to see if there was more to
In a last-minute surprise move, at the end of Deathly Hallows, it turns out that Ron Weasley can open the Chamber of Secrets using Parseltongue. At first read, this seems like an awfully convenient plot point. But is there more to it? I looked into what the series says about Parseltongue acquisition and Ron’s history
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