In Chamber of Secrets, Hermione tells Ron and Harry about Polyjuice Potion: “It transforms you into somebody else. Think about it! We could change into three of the Slytherins. No one would know it was us.” When a few fifth-graders attended a Harry Potter reading group with me, we discussed the notion of understanding how
When three fifth-graders — Torrent, Starry, and Bird – attended a Harry Potter reading group with me, we held a celebration of the end of Sorcerer’s Stone. I promised them that we’d be going through the trapdoor, solving the potions puzzle, brewing a simple Muggle potion, solving mysteries, and then leaving with the Stone. I
This blog post contains mild spoilers for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide. For those of us who have read Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the trolley witch is both a familiar character and a new one. We have seen her before and even heard her speak, but she’s never had
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