In sixth Harry Potter movie, Draco put a singing bird into the vanishing cabinet. The bird arrives alive to Borgin and Burke's because we can hear it singing, but it came back dead. Why did this happen? The scene before the bird was sent show us Draco holding a feather, and I could understand if...

I dont remember much of it as I was watching with a friend sometime ago. The plot icluded a girl who was killed/kiddnapped or missing. A boy who had something like a Teddy bear which he spoke with and the bear would talk to him, and at some point another boy tries to kiss this kid. I dont remembe...

I've just finished the original Ringworld, but I'm slightly confused by the ending. Specifically, Louis Wu explains how Louis explains to Speaker What does he mean by this? How did he work it out? (No spoilers from other books in the series, please, as I haven't read them yet. This book wa...

There is a very cool space battle scene during which an armada of human warships are fighting a single huge alien ship. Who are the alien race and what happens to them? What led to this battle in first place? It seems like the humans are technologically at a disadvantage here and have to resort ...

How come when Elena (Yo Yo) used her speed to lock up Mack to get Fitz out of the cell, she was fine, but when she tried to use her speed when they were surrounded, her arms couldn't "keep up" and hurt her

During a clicking-while-bored session I came across the Den of Geek article Planet of The Titans: The Star Trek Movie You Never Saw and saw the followign passage: Suddenly intrigued, Shatner asked Roddenberry what the film was going to be about. Roddenberry explained that it would be set a nu...

Here's what I remember from a fantasy book I've read years ago: There's this girl locked inside a dark room. As in, total darkness. And she doesn't remember how she got there in the first place (if I remember correctly). Sooo, there are creatures inside that room and she somehow befriended most ...

I'm looking for a book about a where a spacecraft of people go to follow up on an initial colonization party to an Earth-like jungle planet. They find an all-but-abandoned settlement, surrounded by high fences, but with no Idea what has happened to the initial team. They set out through the jungl...

I read the book in the mid-90's and it seemed physically older (10 years at least), though that could have been poor care as well. Paperback with no recall of the cover, but thick-ish in the range of ~500 pages. Each section (possibly single chapter, or a few chapters) included the place and dat...

"If your going to build a time machine why not do it with some style besides the stainless steel.....watch out!" He never got to finish his statement what was he going to say about the steel? 0.19 seconds. What do you theorize the rest of his speech was meant to...

Im writing a fantasy novel and in it im designing a huge wooden ship moved by sail and man powered wheel paddle , and i wonder if it would be possible for the ship to carry a ballista inside that fires from the ship s prow? how effective were balistas against ships hull ? How powerfull was the...

In the New Earth episode, just after she's taken over Rose's body but just before she meets up with the Doctor, we see Cassandra putting something down her (Rose's) top and then exclaiming slightly. Is it the perfume she uses to knock the Doctor out later? If so, why the weird reaction, and why...

From references only from the 1982 Bladerunner movie and Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? is there any indication how the science works to reach the "off world colonies"? Especially for colonies that aren't in the solar system? (Eg Wormholes, Jump drives, Generation ships...)

Ive trying to remember a show for a while and I just cant think of the name. Unfortunately I dont remember enough to find it through google searches, so hopefully someone knows which show im thinking of. I remember the main character is a young blond boy who goes to school in, if I remember corre...

I'm curious whether there are mentions in the story / Word of God about wizards reading ordinary literature. Like, say, Ron arguing with Neville about Watchmen, Hermoine quoting 1984 at Umbridge, or Harry curling up with The Great Gatsby. Or a professor saying something in class that acknowledge...

An older story as it has been at least 15 or more years since I've seen it. I think it was novella length, and was part of a paperback that had several pieces of work by the same author. I think the plot begins rather abruptly with the main character (male I think) on a train, or some form of t...

I was reading about Myrtle and her death. I saw that she was a Ravenclaw and she died in the Gryffindor Girls bathroom. Why was she in there?