Harry Potter

How this Harry Potter fan’s trans coming-out video inspired Eddie Redmayne

The Oscar-winning actor who will star in ‘Fantastic Beasts’ has his eye on the HP fan community.

On Aug 12, 2015 by Aja Romano

Defendants will be tried as adults in ‘Slender Man’ stabbing case

Two teens who stabbed a friend to protect themselves from an urban legend are fit to be tried as adults.

On Aug 10, 2015 by Aja Romano

R-rated ‘Harry Potter’ parody imagines an even worse life for Harry and friends

All about the Boy Who Lived In a Dark Crawlspace for the First Decade of His Life, What the Hell?

On Jul 1, 2015 by Aja Romano

10 fanfiction crossovers we really didn’t see coming

It’s mashup culture gone mad.

On Jun 9, 2015 by Luke Winkie

Anna and Elsa journey through Hogwarts in this incredible ‘Frozen’ fanart

Accio! Accio! Can’t hold it back anymore!

On May 1, 2015 by Aja Romano

Fandom inspires a mystic world of pop-culture tarot

Divination was never this much fun.

On Apr 23, 2015 by Aja Romano

Voldemort’s remix of ‘Uptown Funk’ is turning us all into Death Eaters

Stop! Wait a minute—fill my goblet, put some fire in it.

On Mar 23, 2015 by Aja Romano

Someone put a Harry Potter ‘Monster Book of Monsters’ cover on their senior thesis

We wish we could have seen her professor’s face when she turned in this assignment.

On Feb 13, 2015 by Aja Romano

Your guide to the greatest heroines of young adult fiction

Anyone hating on young adult literature will have to go through these girls first.

On Feb 12, 2015 by Aja Romano

Seattle mom uses 400,000 Lego bricks to re-create Hogwarts

Now this is attention to detail.

On Jan 24, 2015 by Audra Schroeder

J.K. Rowling gives fans Draco Malfoy’s life story for Christmas

It’s a holiday gift for all of us.

On Dec 22, 2014 by Michelle Jaworski

J.K. Rowling’s tweets on representation at Hogwarts provoke major fan backlash

There are Jewish students and queer students in Hogwarts? It would have been nice to have read about them.

On Dec 19, 2014 by Aja Romano

How the growing generation gap is changing the face of fandom

Here’s what I learned at London’s Nine Worlds and Worldcon conventions.

On Aug 25, 2014 by Gavia Baker-Whitelaw

This audio clip of Floyd Mayweather’s reading skill is depressing

Phonics is the last thing this fighter is hooked on. 

On Aug 22, 2014 by Greg Seals

Ditch your white-noise machine for the dulcet tones of Hogwarts

Fans are mixing their own sounds on Ambient Mixer to create the perfect background noise.

On Aug 11, 2014 by Aja Romano