Recent questions tagged harry potter

Description : Does the Hogwarts magic school teach an abortion spell? If so, what is it called?

Last Answer : You have far too much spare time.

Description : If Nagini is a maledictus, how does this affect the event with Bathilda Bagshot in the cemetery?

Last Answer : I think you mean affect, not effect. Affect is an action in progress, effect is what is left after. I’m not sure what you mean by your question though. Are you thinking Nagini should not be able to take human form?

Description : What is your Hogwarts house?

Last Answer : Random questions! I got Hufflepuff

Description : Emergency! Potterheads can you help me with the listening of this spell in the new trailer?

Last Answer : answer:That’s not a spell. Someone (who sounds suspiciously like McGonagall) says “Mr. Scamander!” The story is about a character called Newt Scamander.

Description : Anyone on Pottermore?

Last Answer : I lost my interest in magic-related things and changed to more realistic things years ago.

Description : Am I a Harry Potter fan?

Last Answer : answer:Do you think about Harry Potter all day? Do your eyes sparkle when someone talk about Harry Potter? Do you collect Harry Potter related things like posters? Being a fan is different than just like . ... . When you like, you don't have that enthusiasm. You only enjoy the books and the movies.

Description : Harry Potter fans: Where does Dumbledore apologize to Harry for forgetting what it was like to be young?

Last Answer : Harry, I owe you an explanation, said Dumbledore. An explanation of an old man's mistakes. For I see now that what I have done, and not done, with regard to you, bears all the hallmarks ... seem to have forgotten, lately -Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Chapter 37)

Description : How do you Vote Geek in 2012?

Last Answer : I split between Imperialist and Whovian.

Description : What is the difference between Science Fiction and Fantasy?

Last Answer : Science fiction incorporates actual science to varying degrees (as of the point of its creation) into its core mechanics and concepts. Fantasy disregards science and even uses concepts that contradict it. Compare ... or The Force. The first one is based on actual physics, the latter two are not.

Description : Is there really such a thing as Butter Beer?

Last Answer : answer:She made it up, though possibly based on some historical drink. Since then, several people have tried to create various recipes (but at least ¾ of them are a cream soda base, which a) ... , at the time of writing, JK Rowling was totally oblivious to the existence of historical butter beers.

Description : What did lord Voldemort say in his spell when he tried to kill Harry Potter in the last movie?

Last Answer : Avada Kedavra is the killing curse. It is one of the three unforgivable curses.

Description : Harry Potter fans: Did you cry during the Deathly Hallows?

Last Answer : Nope. It was a good end but not that good.

Description : Harry Potter fans: Is it known how and when Peter Pettigrew came into the Weasleys' lives as Scabbers?

Last Answer : answer:According the this wiki article Pettigrew went into hiding when Death Eaters suspected him of being a traitor (After the fall of What's-His-Face). He chose a wizarding family so he could keep ... the Weasley family. Sounds like he imposed himself upon them (as a rat) until he was discovered,

Description : Time travel questions.

Last Answer : To your first question, yes there is missing information here. Perhaps (and this is blind speculation) someone like Dumbledore used a time turner to save Harry, using his father, then was able to remove himself ... from the situation. Who knows? I am sure there is lots of fan fiction to that point.

Description : Why couldn't someone just bring Dumbledore back to life?

Last Answer : answer:The spell Harry used on Malfoy wasn't a killing spell. It was a spell that caused big, gaping wounds, which Snap was able to magically heal. No one in the Harry Potter books was brought back ... of the brothers brought his wife back using the stone, but she wasn't really back and was unhappy.

Description : Has anybody been to the Harry Potter theme park in Orlando? If so, what did you think of it?

Last Answer : I’m sorry, I haven’t been, but this reviewer seems to hate it.

Description : Harry Potter question: Why couldn't Harry see the thestrals until Order of the Phoenix?

Last Answer : how much does a one year old remember? this is what i thought when this came up.

Description : What books should I read if I love Harry Potter?

Last Answer : Try His Dark Materials, a trilogy by Philip Pullman. The Golden Compass is volume 1. My husband and I did the entire HP series as a read-aloud in weekly installments that spanned many months. We did ... series the same way and enjoyed it very much, even though I would have liked to fix the ending.

Description : What are the dragons in Harry Potter called?

Last Answer : Oh, I think you're talking about hippogriffs perhaps? Those are seen in one of the earlier books (maybe the third, the one with Sirius getting out of prison), Hagrid takes care of it. The exact one is ... . There aren't really other dragons in HP as far as I can remember, but I could be wrong.

Description : Are any other adults on Ask-public giddily excited for July 21st?

Last Answer : Not especially; I've read all the books, and I guess I'd like to know what happens, but at some point I just stopped being fanatic about it. I'll get around to reading it at some point I'm sure, most likely sooner or later, but no midnight releases for me.

Description : What happens in the new Harry Potter book?

Last Answer : Check out the Muggle book on the newest release which is the last book in the series. Hence it's popularity. There are many predictions in it. You can expect to lose a major character I hear in the final series.

Description : Does Harry die at the end?

Last Answer : buy the book

Description : Which Harry Potter did you like the best?

Last Answer : goblet of fire

Description : Where did Nagini come from?

Last Answer : He found her in the forest in Albania, I think. Fellow ask-publicites, feel free to correct me if I’m wrong

Description : Who wanted know whether I had finished all 7 volumes of H Potter?

Last Answer : I don't know the answer to your Q. but i am GLAD that you have finished them all. I thought JKR handled the various dilemmas well, and it was a very fitting end predictable, but fitting. My major complaint ... was one of those people :), I was very tempted to skip that portion (i didn't of course).