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The Basics Harry Potter  is the biggest-selling novel series of the past twenty years. More than 600 million copies of the seven-v...

The fifth Harry Potter  novel, The Order of the Phoenix , is also the longest, clocking in at over 800 pages in paperback and taking the aut...

The Prisoner   of Azkaban  was a major hit movie for Warner Brothers and the Harry Potter  franchise, rewarding their faith in choosing an u...

After directing and releasing the first two Harry Potter  movies in under three years, The Philosopher's Stone  and The Chamber of Secre...

In 2002 Chris Columbus achieved one of the more notable achievements of modern Hollywood film-making. He started filming the second Harry Po...

Twenty years ago, a children's book about a young boy fated to become a wizard was published. Along with its six sequels, it went on to ...

Acclaimed British actor John Hurt has sadly passed away at the age of 77. John Hurt had many, many impressive and famous roles, of gen...

Warner Brothers have unveiled their final full trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them , the first in a prequel trilogy to the H...

J.K. Rowling has announced that her forthcoming Harry Potter stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child , will be published as a script...

The world of theatre, television and film lost one of its most respected figures today. Actor Alan Rickman has passed away from cancer at th...

In 1993 Joanne Rowling was a 28-year-old single mother, living in Edinburgh after leaving a failed marriage in Portugal. She arrived in Scot...

An interesting question that I posed on Twitter last night, to some interesting answers. Does the Harry Potter series count as epic fantasy...