Gifts for amateur chefs

If the Transformation lessons don't work out right and you don't happen to be an Animagus, there's basically only one way for a young wizard to tra...

Steeping herbs, fruits and leaves in a hot liquid, grinding and boiling exotic beans, adding pinches of fine powder and other liquids as desired......

As Muggles, we have to do without some comforts. Although we have been able to compensate for many things with our technology, our lack of magic st...

In the world of witches and magicians, potions play a role on various occasions: In heartbreak or lovesickness, in the search of the truth, in tran...

In Diagon Alley, at the Burrow, and in the Great Hall on just about any occasion, Harry and his friends can find baked goods galore in the form of ...

The best scene in Harry Potter - both the books and the movies - is definitely when Harry decides to buy a piece of every single snack on the Hogwa...

When Harry - and we as readers - first get to know the world of witches and wizards, he is fascinated by all the magic. As we all know, it manifest...

If you have finally managed to get hold of a letter of acceptance to Hogwarts, you will first get a shopping list as long as your arm. Of course, y...

Anyone can wave a magic wand back and forth. The high art of magic is brewing effective potions. At least that's what Severus Snape would say, and ...

Anyone who thinks that witches and wizards never go on long journeys is mistaken. Unlike us Muggles, they can use quick alternatives such as floo p...

Steeping herbs, fruits and leaves in a hot liquid, grinding and boiling exotic beans, adding pinches of fine powder and other liquids as desired......

Hogwarts founders Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin, Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff were of very different opinions when it came to the t...

Quidditch is not for the fainthearted: bloody noses, dangerous manoeuvres and fierce duels are just business as usual. It’s a sport that’s put Harr...

After Voldemort's return, his devoted followers start their secret meetings again, planning Harry's demise and the subjugation of the entire Muggle...

In many ways cooking is like brewing a potion. This is especially true for ramen, because the basis of this Far Eastern noodle speciality is a perf...

Even though Harry Potter tends to rely primarily on Expelliarmus in the books and movies, there’s another spell that the boy with the scar seemingl...

To our surprise, even the world of wizards and witches involves dealing with rather mundane problems: plagued by money problems, the Sorting Hat fr...

Even though the fight against Lord Voldemort is the main topic in the books and movies recounting the life of Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling has also g...

The fact that we as Muggles never got the chance to be sorted into one of the four Hogwarts houses by the Sorting Hat is something most Harry Potte...