In The Return of the King movie adaptation, when Gandalf the White rejoins with the Fellowship, he explains that he fell "through fire and water, from the lowest dungeon to the highest peak".
It's not hard to imagine how he got to the "lowest dungeon" after tumbling through the depths of Khazad-...
In The Sorcerer's Stone, during the first broom-flying class for the first-years, Neville's broom takes him on a wild ride.
At first, Madame Hooch seems prepared for this, and points her wand at Neville (presumably to take control and help him back to ground). But she has to jump out of the way ...
I don't remember much from this one, I think some professor type character builds a spaceship and takes a group to (I think) Mars where they possibly meet another civilisation. They may do some flying on Mars with gliders or something.
One scene I remember clearly is that they're heading out in ...
Most of the Quidditch games we see in the Harry Potter movies end with someone catching the Snitch (and winning).
How often do Quidditch games end without the Snitch being caught?
(I don't expect an exact percentage - but does the Snitch matter as often as it seems from the movies? or is it les...
I was reading Nevermoor today which triggered a memory of a book I once read while visiting the library. It was some 15 years ago, I was obsessed with Harry Potter so I was probably searching for something similar.
The details are super blurry; I think I can remember the beginning of the book - ...
I'm looking for a book where a man develops a new laser weapon but then has to deal with the politicians in washington and all the complex his against him.
As seen in the Darkness on Umbara episode ark of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, we see Pong Krell weld two double-bladed lightsabers. It can be said without doubt that having this many lightsabers is rare. But which other force users are known to have used two double-bladed lightsabers?
Harry has the invisibility cloak, one of the three most powerful objects in the wizarding world.
With time, more and more people learn the fact that Harry has it, however, nobody really cares. Shouldn't that be a big deal?
The Death Eaters went so far for the Elder Wand, did none of them know t...
The opening crawl is one of the most distinctive feature of Star Wars films. But only the numbered episodes have it, not Rogue One or Solo which are also part of the Star Wars franchise.
Why is this?
We see that Professor Snape only accepts people into his NEWT-level classes if they receive an O[utstanding] on the Defense Against the Dark Arts OWL:
“Before we begin today’s lesson,” said Snape, sweeping over to his desk and staring around at them all, “I think it appropriate to remind you ...
In https://harry-potter-compendium.fandom.com/wiki/Veritaserum, it is said:
Dolores Umbridge attempted to use Veritaserum on Harry the following
year, but to no effect. In actuality, Snape had presented her with a
fake potion, and Harry only pretended to drink it, instead dumping it
in ...
In The Way of Kings, some of the death rattles have the note “sample is considered questionable” in the description of the subject. Shouldn’t all of the people have
Why are some of these quotes “considered questionable?”
please tag spoilers for books after The Way of Kings
