Is there any information in the seven books as to who wrote the book? I know Bathilda Bagshot wrote the History of Magic, did she also write Hogwarts: A History also? I know what is in the Harry Potter Wiki, but that is not considered canon to a lot of people.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie showed that any wizard with little skill could rob a muggle bank. Newt Scamander used kid-level spells to infiltrate a muggle bank vault successfully. He used Stupefy and Alohomora to stun a security guy and unlock a highly secure vault, respectively....

In the Entchanters’ End Game, the last book of the Belgariad series, the following exchange between Belgarath the sorcerer and Silk takes place, when they discuss how the Sword has been hidden: “It’s still there,” Silk noted, sounding a bit disappointed. “I can still see the sword.” “That’s...

The Valyrian Steel Oathkeeper is pretty accurate and even uses red Damascus steel to make it look more effective. However, for some reason it appears to use a depiction of Dunk's coat of arms, a green shooting star above an elm tree proper on sunset: As far as I know Oathkeeper was made for...

Polyjuice Potion recognizes the victim (whose identity is compromised) by using his/her hair or something. In case of Love Potion, victims actually eat or drink the Love Potion, but how does Love Potion know who the attacker (for whom the victim fall) is? When Love Potion is brewed, it certainl...

Although Pokémons are depicted as real world animals with huge diversity, I get confused sometimes when I see their intelligence level. Pokémons understand and obey their masters' commands precisely all the time (with exception of few like Victreebel). It doesn't look like a pet following its m...

Ok so I'm looking for a romance novel I read probably 15 years ago - all I remember was reincarnation was a theme - I think the male lead was having dreams or had lost memories about the female lead - I think the cover was blue and was in cursive and hard to read - forever and a day was what I re...

There is some discussion on the difference between the terms "ward" and "adopted". Was Michael adopted - which would make her Spock's legitimate sibling - or was she Sarek's ward, making him more of a guardian rather than a father figure?

I'm trying to identify a story I read, which was being written and published on a site where the author gets pain the more visits they get. The story was written by two people going by 'Oz' and 'Lyss', shipped as 'Lyzzy' and posted with that name too IIRC. I read the beginning - as that's what w...

@JackBNimble managed to pull up an answer to What were J. K. Rowling's “theories” about book seven? that, while I'm skeptical, seems at least slightly plausible. This alleged JKR posted this line at some point: ([Name Edited]) Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore now THAT is a HUGE anagra...

The Psi Corps successfully created a being as powerful as a Vorlon in Jason Ironheart. While the research staff who successfully did it was killed, it should not be too difficult to re-create what was successfully created before. If it has been done before, it should not be difficult to do it aga...

I read this story over 15 years ago. It is probably a lot older. I read it in Serbian magazine but I think that the language of the original is in English. It's a short story, less than two A4 formats long. The story as I remember it is as follows. A young man/boy (crash)lands on a desert plan...

If you were to take Polyjuice, then clip hair from yourself (essentially the hair of the person you transformed into), could you create more Polyjuice to transform into that person using that hair?

We all know that in order for us to see, light has to be reflected off of the object we're looking at, then passed to our eyes. X-rays, which is the same light just on a higher spectrum, also works the same way. That said, if superman were to have x-ray vision it would require an external source ...

This is the scene in the Belgariad Saga where Durnik dies: [Zedar talking to Polgara]: Save yourself that agony. In the end, you’ll go to him anyway. You’ll go willingly - even eagerly.” There was a sudden scraping in the room beyond the iron door, and a quick rush of feet. “Durnik!” Aunt...

I was recently introduced to Jason Shiga's Demon, a webcomic that he has since released in paper form, apparently in four volumes. My local library only has the first three (Amazon lists the fourth volume as to be released on November 17th, 2017). I found PDFs on his site for 20 chapters, but the...

In the Goblet of Fire, we see that it is possible to train yourself to resist the Imperius curse. How is it that Harry, a 14 year old boy, was able to resist Barty Crouch Jr after about an hour, but Moody, the paranoid, experienced, always prepared Auror was trapped for a whole year?

The Remus Warbird Scimitar had what is commonly referred to as a "perfect" cloaking device which is one that allows the vessel to fire weapons while cloaked. It also had an additional unique armament in the thalaron radiation weapon, which required a not-insignificant amount of time and ship reco...