HBO is preparing to send audiences back to Hogwarts, but fans shouldn’t expect the Wizarding World to look exactly as they remember it. The upcoming Harry Potter television series is giving the franchise a visual overhaul as Warner Bros. Discovery attempts something particularly difficult: adapting J.K. Rowling’s seven novels again while separating the new series from eight movies that remain ...

A Harry Potter star has once again spoken out against JK Rowling, directly describing the author as “embarrassing.” Rowling’s online controversy dates back several years. In 2020, she infamously mocked the phrase “people who menstruate” and argued that biological sex cannot be erased. She later published a lengthy essay outlining concerns about gender identity, single-sex spaces, and medical transition, while repeatedly denying ...

Few characters in the Harry Potter franchise are as closely associated with one actor as Severus Snape. For all eight films in the series, the complicated Hogwarts professor was brought to life by Alan Rickman, whose performance transformed Snape from one of the series’ most mysterious characters into one of its most memorable. Now, the character is being reimagined once again. ...