While a lot of pure-blood wizards in Harry Potterbelieve they inherit the most powerful magic, Muggle-borns wizards repeatedly prove that ancestry doesn't matter when it comes to magical power. In ...

There was a time when Harry Potter was the height of children's publishing. J.K. Rowling took the book world by storm with her orphaned boy wizard, who was spirited away from his abusive guardians so ...

There is one fundamentally unfair dynamic in the Wizarding World: while it's entirely simple for a witch or wizard to decide they're fed up with magic and settle into the Muggle world, it's totally ...

The Harry Potter series has woven an overt web across the world, creating a new generation of readers who have soaked up each successive tome with a surprising enthusiasm never before seen in the ...

"I've had my shoulder thrown out from an illegal tackle. I've had my lips busted open more times than I can count. I had a concussion earlier this year and I spent my first week of senior year with a ...

America, a seismic shift has occurred in our great nation this week, and like all of England's tyranny, it was done without our voting consent. Author J.K. Rowling has decreed that American citizens ...

Ben Zimmer runs the web site Visual Thesaurus, which maps words and their relationships to each other. On Friday's Morning Edition, he talks with host Mary Louise Kelly about the special vocabulary ...

Janelle has an extensive career as a writer, with over a decade of freelance experience, especially when it comes to pop culture. Although her first love was music, she also enjoys digging into ...