by October Gallery
The fallout over J.K. Rowling’s transphobia continued this week as two major “Harry Potter” fan groups made explicit efforts to distance themselves from the author’s views. On Thursday, GLAAD announced…
The Sun newspaper in the United Kingdom has been fiercely criticized for a “stomach churning” front page featuring an interview with J.K. Rowling’s first husband under the headline “I slapped…
A scar is born. But where? There’s so much misinformation when it comes to the “Harry Potter” backstory, you’d think Rita Skeeter was behind every headline. But on Thursday, author…
J.K. Rowling revealed she’d been suffering from “all the symptoms” of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, for the last two weeks. The “Harry Potter” author shared a…
Ricky Gervais may have intended for his take on J.K. Rowling’s recent headline–making controversy to be read in jest, but not everyone is laughing. Rowling last week angered fans when…
The late British physicist Stephen Hawking also was remembered with this painting by RTC: Cheltenham Paint Festival Some 130 street artists descended on the town in southwest England — which…
If J.K. Rowling is intent on retconning the entire “Harry Potter” universe, then former enemies Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy acting on their obvious tension certainly makes more sense than…
Oh, that we had a Time Turner so we could return to a moment when J.K. Rowling wasn’t retconning the “Harry Potter” universe into oblivion and we knew nothing of…
Had a few too many Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans? Drank your weight in butterbeer? Fret not about your bowels, young wizard, because bathrooms used to be for muggles only.…
J.K. Rowling isn’t a morning person. At least, not a morning person who likes to wake up at 4 a.m. The Harry Potter series author had a hilarious response to…