Students used to wear their house dresses at Quidditch matches. But where did the first years get these dresses/add-ons in the first term as their dress shopping is done before they are sorted in a house?

Two pilots landed at their base and realized they had somehow traveled ahead through time. One pilot went home and could see that his little girl (who, along with everyone else, was in slo-mo) would get hit by a car. So he attached a rope to somehow stop the car, and to basically save the girl's ...

I’ve been trying to find this cartoon for the longest time ever. I’m not sure what exactly the details are but I remember it was kind of like Yugi-Oh in the sense that it was a card fighting battle based show. However, instead of only monsters appearing, the cards would also be able to transform ...

I read this story many decades ago. Probably in a collection since I very rarely read magazines, but I don't remember at all what it might have looked like. A very, very old alien tells her memories to Earthlings. She was born billions of years ago. Her physiological age is much less, since she t...

In the Secret Wars #4 (2015) comic book, there's a scene where Doctor Doom and Susan von Doom (née Storm), aka the Invisible Woman, are observing a battle. Doom's Thor Corps—a group of Thor variants, each wielding their own Mjolnir—are fighting against the Cabal, led by the Maker (the Reed Richar...

I found a article on climate modeling of Arrakis (there is no in-depth paper that goes with that unfortunately, but a visualization is here). The conclusion was that Dune was basically possible, but the winters in northern region would be very cold indeed, contrary to the novel. This reminded of ...

The main character was male. I don't know which country the cartoon is from and I don't remember the main character's appearance. He had a bag of, I think, red jewels and a red/yellow animal friend. The gems made his friend stronger? It's not Huntik or Magi-Nation. I watched this on either Cartoo...

I am looking for a specific "Lord of the Rings" scene, but fail to find it so far. I do not know in which of the movies it was shown. Gandalf is ascending a steep path on an almost vertical wall on some grey-cloured mountains. It's misty, but day-time, iirc. In the end, it involves a mostly broke...

Planet of low fertility, women live in "Wells" until they become pregnant, then become the property of the man who impregnated them. Woman who "runs" the Well in the story, comes of age, discovers through video left by deceased mother, her father is a god & sets out to find him. If I remember ri...

I remember that a group of teens (don't know the species) were kept in a prison guarded by ogres (I think). These teens would eventually escape into a desert. Only a few would survive and then find the edge of a civilization of elves (maybe) and would train a lot. I don't remember much else.

It makes no sense that the entire Federation and group of many planets would ban genetic resequencing just because of a bad experience the humans had with it.

In Arthur C. Clarke's 1979 Fountains of Paradise, the Hunters of the Dawn are mentioned in passing. Were these aliens a bigger presence in another of his stories? Also Ian Douglas in his 1998 Heritage Series also has an alien Hunters of Dawn with a very similar concept. Are the Hunters of the Daw...

So I have been searching for this book for a while now. I can still remember how it started. It was about a woman, the main protagonist inprisoned in a psychiotry. She was there because someone framed her to be insane even tho she wasn't. Right before medical exeminations, a guard would force her...

A man and his grandson are very close. When someone turns a certain age (70? 80?) they are put in a lottery of sorts and whoever is picked must be put to death, supposedly to control population? It wasn't a terribly long book.

Back in 2004 at a con, I was in a anime watching room I came across a anime about some kind of detective or mercenary trying to help a girl with a monkey companion. She lost her spot in a princess lottery? I can't remember if she needed their help to get back in or find a lost friend. The two men...