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January 20th, 2023
Does J.K. Rowling consider the videogame Hogwarts Legacy canon?
The highly-anticipated videogame Hogwarts Legacy, developed by Avalanche Software and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, is set to be released in just a few days on February 10, 2023. The game, written by a team of writers, will take players on an adventure through the wizarding world of Harry Potter. The team behind the […]
The Rowling Magazine Issue #73 · January 2023
The hierarchy of canon: The sources of Harry Potter lore
The Harry Potter series has a vast and complex canon, with multiple sources including the novels, companion books, interviews, and various forms of merchandise. This abundance of information can be confusing for fans, and it has led to the development of a hierarchy of canon that some use to determine the level of authenticity and […]
November 4th, 2022
Davis Zaslav (Warner Bros CEO) would like more Harry Potter movies if J.K. Rowling agrees
Today was Warner Bros. Discovery Q3 earnings call with investors, and CEO Davis Zaslav mentioned Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling. According to The Hollywood Reporter and Variety, Zaslav said: “We’re going to have a real focus on franchises. We haven’t had a ‘Superman’ movie in 13 years. We haven’t done a ‘Harry Potter’ movie in […]
The Rowling Magazine Issue #71 · November 2022
Harry Potter: A Forbidden Forest Experience
The Rowling Library team was invited to the Harry Potter: A Forbidden Forest Experience in Westchester, New York. We’ll share what we thought of this new attraction for fans of the Wizarding World, based on the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films. Harry Potter: A Forbidden Forest Experience is a new experience created by Fever […]
The Rowling Magazine Issue #66 · June 2022
Of Watches and Mirrors
“I give away to you the secret of secrets. Mirrors are doors through which Death comes and goes. As for the rest, glare at yourself all your life through a looking-glass and you will see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.” – from Jean Cocteau’s Orphée3, 4 Nicolas Flamel, Paris resident and […]
April 5th, 2022
Review: Fantastic Beasts 3 – The Secrets of Dumbledore
After the unenthusiastic reception of The Crimes of Grindelwald, Warner Bros. knew they had to do something different for the third part of the Fantastic Beasts series. Something different that would appeal back to the casual fans of the Wizarding World: that something different is Fantastic Beasts – The Secrets of Dumbledore. Warner Bros. knew […]
February 17th, 2022
David Heyman confirms the creatures from the trailer of Fantastic Beasts 3 are baby manticores
The first trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore showed a few new creatures from the Wizarding World, and one of them was this one that looks like a crab/scorpion, depending on how you look at them: We were in the dark about which new creature this was, until last week. In a Fan […]
February 8th, 2022
Warner Bros. registers domain name WizardingWorldFestival.com
Warner Bros. has registered the domain name WizardingWorldFestival.com. Of course, this may not mean anything, but at the same time, remember our previous scoops about Warner Bros. registering internet addresses for future projects: June 2021: 📢 Warner Bros has recently registered the following domain names: – https://t.co/oeZVIxDANJ– https://t.co/U1INShn2Mp– https://t.co/Bou8S7cugw This could be related to the […]
January 31st, 2022
Pottermore Publishing revenue rises by 23% and profits by 150%
The Bookseller reports that Pottermore Publishing, the digital content company for J K Rowling’s Wizarding World, saw revenues rise by 23% to £40.4m while pretax profits rocketed 150% to £9.5m. The company reported details of its financial results covering the period for the 12 months to 31st March 2021. Revenues saw an uplift of 23% […]
The Rowling Magazine Issue #58 · October 2021
The Christmas Pig: Nods to Harry Potter or coincidences?
==== Spoilers from The Christmas Pig ==== Some passages of The Christmas Pig will trigger memories on those readers who are very fond of the Harry Potter series. Are these scenes and dialogues a nod to the Harry Potter books, or just a mere coincidence? Jack arrives at a new school and somehow he is […]
The Rowling Magazine Issue #56 · August 2021
Wizarding Clothing: Beneath the Robes
There are a lot of important subjects explored in the Harry Potter series: love, death, betrayal, war, and much more. And that’s why today, I wanted to explore one of the most important and compelling topics in the series: wizard clothing. We all know that wizards wear robes, and older wizards sometimes are hilariously oblivious […]
The Rowling Magazine Issue #56 · August 2021
Harry Potter Loves Books: The Books in the Harry Potter Series
Books in the Wizarding World are important objects that change the way some characters behave. Oliver goes through some of the most important titles in the Harry Potter universe.
The Rowling Magazine Issue #53 · May 2021
The evolution of The Daily Prophet
The Daily Prophet newspaper has been used as a key element throughout the Harry Potter series both to provide a broader view of the goings-on in the Wizarding community and at times to deliver important clues and information to move the main plot of the story forward. Besides the fact that the newspapers contain moving […]
The Rowling Magazine Issue #52 · April 2021
The Original Prop Designer – Exclusive interview with Ruth Winick
Ruth Winick worked as a Graphic Artist in the first Harry Potter films and is the original creator of some of the most iconic designs from the Wizarding World. We had the chance to interview her about her work, her inspirations and more!
The Rowling Magazine Issue #50 · February 2021
Our GrangerVision? Everything we know about the rumored Harry Potter TV series
A Harry Potter TV series is what is missing in the franchise. It is the last thing that the fandom still dreams of. It has been the main topic this month with announcements, rumours, theories, news, denials and even more theories. Here is all we know.
January 22nd, 2021
Tom Ascheim to oversee Harry Potter Franchise at Warner Bros: What does it mean?
Variety reports that Tom Ascheim has been promoted and its new role at Warner Bros will be to oversee the Harry Potter and Wizarding World franchise, acting as a nexus between the studio and J.K. Rowling (and her office/reps at The Blair Partnership). Although the official announcement does not reveal anything about future plans, it […]
The Rowling Magazine Issue #49 · January 2021
Is Grindelwald a shape-shifter? The solution for changing actors
Johnny Depp leaving the Fantastic Beasts series was one of the main topics of 2020 for the fans of the Wizarding World. Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, famous for his role in the TV series “Hannibal”, was quickly appointed to replace the American actor and to play the role of Gellert Grindelwald, the Dark Wizard who […]
The Rowling Magazine Issue #49 · January 2021
Goodbye 2020 – A year in review
The year 2020 will be remembered for a long time for well-known reasons. An unprecedented pandemic in modern times affected the whole planet, but this is not the place to go over the sad things that happened in the Muggle world. We will, instead, go over what happened in the Wizarding World in this 2020 […]
The Rowling Magazine Issue #46 · October 2020
Never seen before posters from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Phil Bates is an award-winning designer who worked as a senior art director for major broadcasting and cable networks, motion picture production companies, music labels, and design firms that support the industry. You probably saw a film poster made by him, and among his clients are big corporations like Fox or Warner Bros. In 2009, […]
The Rowling Magazine Issue #46 · October 2020
Hogwarts Legacy: Is it J.K. Rowling’s legacy?
And in the end, it was announced. There were many months of waiting and anxiety for the Harry Potter fandom, or at least for the part that was asking for something since forever. A Harry Potter role-play game (RPG) looked like a million-dollar idea and there were not many reasons why a videogame like that […]
The Rowling Magazine Issue #35 · November 2019
The Melodies of the Magical World
Magic is at the heart of the Wizarding World, but even witches and wizards have an appreciation for music. During Harry’s first welcoming feast at Hogwarts in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Albus Dumbledore takes a second to acknowledge that music is a magic of its own. “Ah, music,” he said, wiping his eyes. […]
The Rowling Magazine Issue #30 · June 2019
Is the Wizarding World still in the closet?
It’s Pride Month and we couldn’t stop to analyze how this could be celebrated in the Wizarding World that J. K. Rowling created. Amidst the controversy that Rowling launched when publically made clear for second time that Albus Dumbledore is gay and that he may have had a sexual relationship with the villain of Fantastic […]
The Rowling Magazine Issue #29 · May 2019
The four horsemen of Wizarding World Gold
This article was originally published as “El sustituto de Pottermore punto com tendrá una versión de pago” on the Spanish-speaking fan site HarryLatino.com. What is ‘Wizarding World Gold’ and why we should have seen it coming years ago. This month, Warner Brothers and Pottermore announced an alliance to create a new website (“Wizarding World […]
The Rowling Magazine Issue #28 · April 2019
The Woman Who Did It
Thousands of people worked in the ten Wizarding World films that have been released so far. Many renowned actors, a few notable directors, and many more crew and cast members. But only one person among them all, managed to carry out the desire and the dream that for the last 17 years seemed unattainable. […]
The Rowling Magazine Issue #26 · February 2019
The Wizarding World in my Basement
Ironically, the idea to recreate parts of the Wizarding World in my own home actually came out of a desire to pare down and simplify the Harry Potter parties I had been hosting annually for friends and family. Since 2013, I had been planning immersive, elaborate parties with decorations that referenced or brought to life […]
The Rowling Magazine Issue #26 · February 2019
Fantastic Beasts 3 is postponed until 2021
Will we ever get to see Dumbledore and Grindelwald’s great duel in a fifth movie or will the story shrink to fit fewer films? Right after the release of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and the bad reviews that sprang up, some fans started to wonder if there was any chance that the series […]
The Rowling Magazine Issue #25 · January 2019
What’s coming in 2019 for Harry Potter
2018 has passed and with it a lot of new things in the Harry Potter Universe, with Fantastic Beast: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the new film in the Wizarding World, the main course of the year releases. We also had the new illustrated editions of The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in plural, because we […]
March 16th, 2017
What was changed in the new Fantastic Beasts book, and what it means for canon
A few days ago, J.K. Rowling released a new edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, originally published as a mock-textbook in 2001. A few sections were removed, including all of Rowling’s handwritten parts, some new content was added, and a handful of lines were edited to ensure consistency with the new movies. While Rowling […]