Monday, February 29, 2016

How Hermione Granger Are You Actually?

The real Hermione Granger would get 112% in this quiz. Warner Bros. / BuzzFee...

Sunday, February 28, 2016

How Harry Potter Are You?

Let’s hope not a lot otherwise your family’s probably dead! Warner Bros. Picture...

Saturday, February 27, 2016

The government is being accused of using national security as an excuse to withhold crucial historical documents from academics researching British spy agencies. One historian has now obtained legal advice that suggests the government is breaking freedom of information laws by not releasing Cabinet Office files he needs for his research into Anthony Blunt, one of the Cambridge...

"Harry Potter And The Cursed Child" Has Officially Started Rehearsals

*Chants* NEW HARRY POTTER, NEW HARRY POTTER, NEW HARRY POTTER. According to the official Twitter account of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the eighth Harry Potter story has officially started rehearsals. Twitter: @HPPlayLDN They also also just announced 39 new cast members. Manuel Hartan / Via Twitter: @HPPlayLDN Previously, the only cast we knew of was the new trio...
Everything from her eyebrows to the sex sites she uses, and how like Hermione she truly is. Last month Emma Watson revealed she's starting a feminist book club. And one of the first books she chose was Gloria Steinem's My Life on the Road. Instagram: @emmawatson Gloria Steinem is a women's rights activist, a writer, lecturer, editor, and renowned feminist. Nick Cunard /...

Friday, February 26, 2016

18 People Reveal Why They Wish They Went To Hogwarts

“I secretly want to go to Hogwarts just so I can be best friends with Hermione.” All confessions courtesy of Whisper. View Video › whisper.sh View Video › whisper.sh View Video › whisper.sh View Video › whisper.sh View Entire List ...

17 "Urban Lit" Books That Are Doing The Absolute Most

In Zane we trust. This rejected Ja Rule lyric. amazon.com This tale of a woman who is truly fed up. (But maybe not so fed up that there can't be a sequel). amazon.com This suspenseful confessional. amazon.com And this direct violation of Side Chick Etiquette 101. amazon.com View Entire List ...

Important: Deadpool Is A Hufflepuff

Hufflepuff? It makes sense when you think about it. Hopefully by now you've seen Deadpool. It's a lot of fun. Marvel Now that there's a new Marvel superhero at movie theaters, we naturally have to wonder: Which Hogwarts house does Deadpool belong to? thefourhousesofhogwarts.tumblr.com Maybe you're thinking Gryffindor, because of the red suit and the reckless behavior. Marvel Or...
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Mischief. Managed. When they became best friends with Professor Umbridge: Warner Bros. / Via potterhead-tribute16.tumblr.com And then showed her how much they *truly* loved her: Warner Bros. / Via magicliveforever.tumblr.com When they definitely cheered for the dragon instead of Harry: Warner Bros. When they literally said anything to Percy: PotterWorldUK / Via Twitter:...

What Does Being A “Good" Wife Have To Do With Being President?

Mark Makela / Getty Images At the age of 3, I asked my father, “What baseball team are you for?” He said, "The Dodgers,” and I became a Dodger. Weird, not weird. It is sometimes impossible to recognize when or why we came to think what we do. Children believe before they are really thinking, before the Age of Reason, which is meant to start at age 7. I heard the word “whore”...

Thursday, February 25, 2016

This Kid Just Had The Greatest Harry Potter Party You've Ever Seen

Complete with a trip to the Three Broomsticks and the Quidditch World Cup. Seven-year-old Cam just had what is quite possibly the best Harry Potter themed party to ever happen. "Cam and I started reading the books together about two years ago because he always heard me and my friends talk about it," Cam's mom Allie told BuzzFeed. "It's a little over his head for his age but...

19 Things You Know If You're Dating A Gryffindor

Their emotional range is much bigger than a teaspoon. First things first, they're pretty sexy. Something about all that daring nerve and disregard for rules really does it for you. Warner Bros And they have a lot of feelings. AKA the emotional range of about 80 teaspoons. They're big characters and they feel things deeply, from undying love to supreme annoyance. Warner Bros They...

Someone Is Pretending To Be The Hogwarts IT Guy And It Is Everything

“The Setup Wizard” on Tumblr is your new favorite Harry Potter parody. There's a hilarious new Tumblr, written from the perspective of a muggle IT guy at Hogwarts, the wizarding school from the Harry Potter series. thesetupwizard.tumblr.com Jonathan's got his work cut out for him, trying to teach old wizards new tricks. "It took some pressuring from me for him to not set...

Are You Clever Enough To Get Into The Ravenclaw Common Room?

If it’s entrance that you seek, then these answers you must speak. All riddles from BrainDen. Pottermore/monaMonash/Thinkstock ClaireMcAdams/Thinkstock ClaireMcAdams/Thinkstock ClaireMcAdams/Thinkstock View Entire List ...

43 John Green Quotes For When You Need An Instagram Caption

Paper Towns, fire captions. 20th Century Fox 1. "As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once." —The Fault in Our Stars 2. "That smile could end wars and cure cancer." —An Abundance of Katherines 3. "You can love someone so much… But you can never love someone as much as you miss them. —An Abundance of Katherines 4. "Love is the most common...

Wattpad Is Releasing An Entire Collection Of "Imagine" Fanfics

Imagine: You wake up next to your ultimate celebrity crush… Interactive storytelling site and app Wattpad has announced they'll be publishing a collection of "Imagines" — those second-person fan fictions that have taken over the site (and honestly, much of the internet) — this April. Simon & Schuster universeoffandomimagines.tumblr.com CW View Entire List ...

13 Picture Books That Might Actually Turn Your Kid Into A Good Eater

Plus they’re fun to read. Alice Mongkongllite / BuzzFeed It doesn't really work that way! I do expose my one-year-old daughter to a wide variety of foods—basically, everything that I eat, I offer her. But has that made her into a good eater? Not reeeeeeally. I mean, she'll take down an entire avocado, but when I give her a piece of roast chicken or a meatball, she looks at...

17 Toddler Quotes That Are Both Insane And Surprisingly Wise

“I checked the computer and it said you were dancing wrong.” Andrew Richard / BuzzFeed LesByerley / ThinkStock AlexRaths / ThinkStock View Entire List ...

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

This Canadian Poet's Tumblr Is Filled With Hilarious Fake CanLit Book Covers

“The Night Isn’t Going To Call Itself ‘Luminescent’ On Its Own, Is It?” David McGimpsey is the author of seven books of poetry, one collection of short stories, and teaches literature at Concordia University in Montreal. He also likes to photoshop strange and hilarious book covers and post them to his Tumblr. He started in late 2013, and now his Tumblr is filled with imagined...