Every September 1, fans mark the moment the Hogwarts Express pulls away from Platform 9¾. This year HBO Max is building the platform itself — on the banks of the Thames. BACK TO HOGWARTS: The HBO Max Platform 9 ¾ Fan Experience is a free, one-day celebration taking place Tuesday, September 1 at Old Billingsgate…
Alexa has been reading Harry Potter aloud for years. Now she has finally been sorted. Amazon has quietly added a Harry Potter line to its Echo Pop range — four house-themed versions of the compact smart speaker, one each for Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff. All four are live on Amazon now at $59.99, and…
Berlin is turning a historic swimming pool into the Great Hall for a day, and it will not cost you a single Knut. Back to Hogwarts 2026 Berlin takes over the listed Stadtbad Oderberger Straße on Saturday, August 29, as Germany’s centrepiece event in Warner Bros. Discovery’s worldwide 25th-anniversary celebrations. For one day the bathhouse…
Transfiguration’s most formidable professor and Hogwarts’ most incorrigible troublemakers are getting the pocket-sized treatment. Bloomsbury has revealed the next two entries in its Pocket Potters line — Professor McGonagall and Fred and George Weasley — and both are open for pre-order now ahead of a 2027 release. The Pocket Potters are Bloomsbury’s official illustrated mini-guides…
Term doesn’t officially start until September 1 — but it looks like a few students have already turned up early. Asha Soetan, who plays Gryffindor Chaser Angelina Johnson in HBO’s Harry Potter, shared an Instagram story this week captioned “POV: back on set today with some exciting scenes but sworn to secrecy!” She didn’t say…
Two million people a year queue at King’s Cross for that photo. This month, the wall is coming to them instead. To mark 25 years since Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone reached cinemas, a replica of the Platform 9¾ luggage trolley is touring cinemas across the UK, giving fans outside London a shot at…
Twelve hundred points of light, arranged into a Patronus, hovering over a decommissioned airfield. Toronto’s turn has arrived. DroneArt Show: Harry Potter is heading to YZD, the former Downsview Airport, for two nights this September — the show’s first Canadian stop and a significant expansion for a tour that has so far been a US…
The Hogwarts House donuts landed at Tims restaurants nationwide this week. One store in Ohio decided that wasn’t enough and redecorated the whole building. A Harry Potter–themed Tim Hortons takeover has opened for a limited time at 8333 N. High St. in Columbus, with wizarding-world design elements inside and out and selfie spots built for…
Every wizard remembers who taught them the Levitation Charm — and on Thursday night, Draco Malfoy’s Charms professor was sitting in a Broadway audience watching him cast it. Tom Felton shared a set of photos from the Lyric Theatre after Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, where his surprise guest was Warwick Davis, who played…
Accio, shorter wait times? Sort of. Express access has quietly resurfaced at Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure at Universal’s Islands of Adventure — but before you reach for your wallet, there’s a catch worth knowing. Why Express Left Hagrid’s in the First Place Universal removed the wildly popular coaster from its Universal Express program on…
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