I have a vague recollection that the elder wand is quite happy to betray its owner for a more powerful wizard. The best I could find was a quote from screenrant: Because this wand thinks so highly of itself, it is incredibly finicky with its ownership. This wand will only choose a witch or wizar...

Can you name these people and/or things? (Someone with better skills than I can hopefully put numbers on the pic).

Can you name these these and/or people from Star Trek? Someone with better skills than I can hopefully put numbers on the pic).

Was it possible for Lord Voldemort to look directly into the Basilisk's eyes when he opened the chamber of secrets? Or did he take precautions?

80's, maybe early 90's. I remember a scene where a taxi driver, at night, observes a group walking onto a spaceship, maybe in a park setting. The group is dressed in human civilian clothes, and the taxi driver gets out to watch, they says something like "They wear Nike's!" Help! This is driving...

Spoiler alert: Link to other question, and information on this one may reveal plot-related information. This question is partially related to "this one". This relates to Fringe series, Season 2. It deals with the death of character named Agent Charlie Francis & identifying Shape-shifter's current...

Around 1985/86 I read a book that was probably at least a few years old. It was a fantasy set in ancient times, where the pagan gods (it mostly focussed on the Greek gods) are real and interact with each other. I don't remember the whole plot, but towards the end, there is an invasion of their wo...

This is a follow up to this question: Why is Seraph gold? The accepted answer to the related question above concludes that Seraph appears as gold code when Neo first meets him because he is somehow a "hardware" machine plugged into the matrix, rather than just being a "software" program like thos...

Just read this on JKR's old website: Having taken Harry’s blood into himself, Voldemort is keeping alive Lily’s protective power over Harry. So Voldemort himself acts almost like a Horcrux for Harry – except that the power of Lily’s sacrifice is a positive force that not only continues to tether...

Why Skynet used nuclear weapons agains humans, and did not used biological weapons? He is an AI. Nuclear blasts are as lethal to machines (due to EMP and radiation) as for humans. Also, they destroying a wast amount of infrastructure, thus making Skynet weaker.

Mara Jade, Talon Karrde, and of course Grand Admiral Thrawn were some of the most fantastic characters introduced by the "Heir to the Empire" trilogy (RIP that those weren't made into episodes 7, 8, & 9. Ahh what might have been!). It would be awesome to see the trio in Star Wars (cheers to Thraw...

In Doctor Strange, we are told about Dormammu, a creature residing in the Dark Dimension, feeding upon matter. Apparently he's part of a species known as the Faltines. The Marvel Wiki article on Dormammu mentions that he and another (Umar) were born out of Sinifer, who used to feed on energy only...

Inn texts it's clearly written that Cho's is one year ahead of Harry academically, but in Deathly Hallows we find Cho in room of requirements with other students. Given the fact that she passed out of school last year, what was she doing there? More specifically, How did she manage to get in Hogw...

Question on the waning of the elves Hi everyone. I'm currently struggling my way through Morgoth's ring, and am reading the commentary on the Athrabeth. However, one quote in the commentary is confusing me, and I was hoping someone understood it better than me. In note 7 (p. 382) it is said re: t...

I'm trying to identify a sci-fi story (either novel or part of a collection) where a traveling problem-solver character used radiative cooling with baffles to prevent airflow interfering (perhaps to condense water, or for some other part of solving a larger problem), on some human-inhabited plane...

I read this somewhere in the late 1980s to the early 1990s as a library book in Ashland, KY. Most of my memories of the book are pretty fragmentary, but it involved at least one caucasian boy along with one or more friends who were solving mysteries they came upon (I think it was entirely things ...

This short story is set entirely on the emperor's personal flagship/palace, which is a monumental ship full of courtiers and all the panoply of the ruler of the solar system. He keeps a single member of a subject people as something of a court jester; this is apparently a sad representative of th...