harry goes to see where his mother lived as a child. Gets drunk ends up in a tree that snape and lily used to go to. A ward tells snape someone is there he finds harry. harry ends up staying at snapes. harry gets sick do to a infection in his back and snape has to lance open the wounds and pack t...

There was a movie I watched many years ago in which I only remember a scene in it. It is stuck in my head for 4 days now and I really want to know the name of it. The scene was when the main protagonist's party was capture by some alien (or monster?) to a prison. There they met a man who had bee...

When I (an American) first saw Peter Davison's first story as the Doctor, the name of the place where he is "supposed" to recuperate from his regeneration, "Castrovalva" just seemed to me to be another made-up science fiction name. Only recently, did I learn that it is the name of an actual Ital...

Things I remember from the movie. A plump man in an electronic wheelchair being electrocuted. One spaceship running in to another and it kills a woman being stabbed in the stomach. The main killer alien is blonde. I don’t think he talks unless he’s taken over someone’s body. The title of the ...

How was Harry Potter able to get the Sword back after giving it to the elf in exchange for him getting Harry into theVault to get Hufflepuff's Cup?

I am attempting to get info on how Melody got to Leadworth and who her "stand in" parents were, if any existed. (Amy and Rory would not count in the eyes of society). Since she regenerated as a toddler and then went to school with Rory and Amy, my question is who drove her to school in the mornin...

One of the downside of the embracing Chaos and its gifts are mutations, that would also affect the progenoid glands, necessary to create new Marines. In some cases (Rubric Marines), such organ completely ceases to exist. So which of the Traitor Legions are still able to create new Marines "from ...

In HPMOR, Tom Riddle is incredibly smart by the time the whole thing takes place. He's also, to my mind, sociopathic and, as Harry puts it, empty inside. We know that Canon!Riddle was raised in an orphanage and later was admitted to Hogwarts, where he tried to strategise towards his goals. But I ...

I remember that a guy with a girl I think travel to collect gems on his arm and in those gems it has animals and every animal has a different superpower .. i remember also that there's an evil guy who rides a robot spider or something like that and other girl with him and they used to run away wi...

Boggarts turn into their victim's worst fears. Why do they do this? What is their ultimate goal?

I could be wrong, it was so long ago, but I thought the premise of it was that aliens had come to Earth and were communicating with people in their dreams, telling everyone they were judging to bring away the best that the Earth has to offer, and give them a paradise away from Earth. So the mai...

This is similar to one of my other questions, but instead of asking about the station, I am asking about a character who was on the station. When Babylon-4 was nearing the final stages of construction, an unknown creature appeared on it. The station became unstuck in time and disappeared along w...

Nynaeve bests Moghedien in a duel in The Shadow Rising and subsequently shields her from the True Source, in addition to trapping her in Air (and tying the weave). However, Moghedien disappears literally seconds later while Nynaeve was momentarily distracted by balefire. The shield of Spirit ...

I'm looking for a short story about how scientist aliens look at earth from afar and see a violent race bent only on killing each other. The aliens decide to destroy earth as to eradicate the threat to the galaxy/universe. The weapon (a laser) takes some time (hundreds of years?) to reach Earth,...

Maniac take place in an alternate reality where history and the current state of technology do not match with our reality. Among the incongruities, we see: yet also Do we have an indication in- or out-of-universe about the supposed year in the series?

I notice in Avatar TLA that everyone esp the fire nation fears avatar roku and I’ve been trying to find the answer to that. Anyone got a conclusion to this?

I'm currently reading A Feast for Crows and Arya is at the house of black and white. She's having real trouble letting go of her list. It's been a while since I read the earlier books though. This question details the people on the list and who's still alive but I'd like to know how each person e...

Star Wars Producer Gary Kurtz has died at the age of 78. In addition to helping to convince the studio to fund Star Wars in the first place, he was also producer and second-unit director for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and is generally credited with encouraging Lucas to create a universal ...

I am looking for a not particularly outstanding old horror science fiction story about a monster or monsters attacking the first expedition to Venus. My main memory is one particular detail. I bought & read a few old science fiction magazines from the 1950s and 60s that were not genre leaders l...

I was looking for a Klingon word for "curiosity" but I was unable to find any evidence... In the dictionary there are words for scientist (tej), science (QeD), research (Qul), analysis (poj), smart ('ong/vai), interesting (Daj), etc. But nothing reproducing exactly "curiosity". Do you have any su...

At the start of DH, Hermione tells Harry and Ron that she modified her parents' memories. "I’ve also modified my parents' memories so that they’re convinced they’re really called Wendell and Monica Wilkins, and that their life’s ambition is to move to Australia, which they have now done. That...

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry attempts to use Umbridge's fire to contact Sirius after having his final vision during OWLs. When he's yanked back out he finds that five members of the DA have been captured and restrained by an equal number of inquisitorial squad members. It...

In The Goblet Of Fire Sirius is coming to Hogsmeade to stay closer to Harry. He is having a rough time there living in a cave without food and any necessities. Sirius was wearing ragged gray robes; the same ones he had been wearing when he had left Azkaban. His black hair was longer than it h...

I vividly remember a scene from a short story (?) I read back in the sixties or seventies, and am trying to remember the publication and title. If it sounds familiar to you, please post. The scene is set in the distant future after mankind has slowly spread all the way to the far side of the Ga...

First, I want to acknowledge that this may not be the best place to find what I'm looking for as I don't know if it fits in the sci-fi or fantasy genres. I'm trying to find a short story. I'm not sure of the time period although I know it's relatively old. In the story, a town or village was se...