Beyond Hogwarts: The only Harry Potter on-line discussion conference http://www.beyondhogwarts.com en-us Beyond Hogwarts (rss@beyondhogwarts.com) Copyright © 2002-2009 David Haber. All rights reserved. 2009-07-18T18:49:20-08:00 http://www.beyondhogwarts.com/harry-potter/articles/dumbledore-is-dead-again.html Almost exactly 4 years ago, as we all read the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince together for the first time, we experienced the death of Dumbledore, and this site became into being, as it was originally known as dumbledoreisnotdead.com. And now, with the release of the movie, we're reliving it, all over again. Beyond Hogwarts 2009-07-18T17:46:00-08:00 http://www.beyondhogwarts.com/harry-potter/comments/the-tale-of-the-three-brothers.html The final of the Beedle tales, the Tale of the Three Brothers is the crux of the entire final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, as it the origin of the legend of the three deathly hallows, the indestructable Invisibilty Cloak, the Resurrection Stone, and the Elder Wand. Beyond Hogwarts 2009-02-22T15:38:00-08:00 http://www.beyondhogwarts.com/harry-potter/comments/babbitty-rabbitty-and-her-cackling-stump.html The fourth Beedle the Bard tale, Babbity Rabitty and her Cackling Stump, while couched in a story of how Wizards can triumph over foolish or opportunistic Muggles, is really story that teaches young Wizards important information about the limitations of magic, specifically, that magic cannot bring back the dead. Beyond Hogwarts 2009-02-22T15:08:00-08:00 http://www.beyondhogwarts.com/harry-potter/comments/the-warlocks-hairy-heart.html The third Beedle the Bard tale, The Warlock's Hairy Heart, about a Warlock who locks his heart away so he can't be hurt by love, deals with the important lessons of the dangers and unintended consequences of using magic to change yourself or other people, and the tragedy that can happen when magic is taken too far. Beyond Hogwarts 2009-02-21T16:07:00-08:00 http://www.beyondhogwarts.com/harry-potter/comments/the-fountain-of-fair-fortune.html The second Beedle the Bard tale, The Fountain of Fair Fortune deals with another topic very important in the world of Harry Potter, that is, the cooperation between and intermarrying of Wizards and Muggles. The characters in the story are healed of their ailments and woes at the end, but not because the fountain did anything magical. Beyond Hogwarts 2009-02-21T15:07:00-08:00 http://www.beyondhogwarts.com/harry-potter/comments/the-wizard-and-the-hopping-pot.html The first of Beedle the Bard's tales, The Wizard and the Hopping Pot deals with a topic often touched upon in the Harry Potter stories, and one that Hagrid addressed with Harry in the very first book. Should Wizards use their magical abilities to help Muggles? Or should Wizards hide themselves from the Muggle world, and more importantly, should they hide all magic from Muggles? Beyond Hogwarts 2008-12-05T18:58:00-08:00 http://www.beyondhogwarts.com/harry-potter/articles/international-quidditch-lessons.html Quidditch, the Sport of Warlocks, is the most popular sport among witches and wizards in Europe, and is loved by Quidditch fans all over the world. But for newcomers to the sport, the quick-paced game may be confusing and hard to follow. As a public service to Quidditch fans everywhere, Beyond Hogwarts presents a lesson understanding Quidditch in serveral different languages. Beyond Hogwarts 2005-04-30T21:33:00-08:00 http://www.beyondhogwarts.com/harry-potter/comments/a-forbidden-peek-at-young-james-and-sirius.html J.K. Rowling's 800 word prequel to the Harry Potter story, which she wrote for charity and which sold at auction for $50,000, was posted online last month by UK bookstore Waterstone's. In this brief glimpse of a story, James and Sirius are being chased, and run afoul of the muggle police. Who was chasing them? And does their nonchalance with the muggle police give us an insight to James' upbringing? Did he possibly have a muggle childhood like Hermione? Beyond Hogwarts 2008-07-13T11:48:00-08:00 http://www.beyondhogwarts.com/harry-potter/articles/the-five-principal-exceptions-to-gamps-law.html Elemental transfiguration is the magical art of physically converting one thing into another. But as with all types of magic, there are limitations to what you can do with transfiguration, as we learn in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, when Hermione mentions the five Principal Exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration. But she only tells us one of them. What are the other four? I think we know two more, and can guess another. Beyond Hogwarts 2008-04-30T21:43:00-08:00 http://www.beyondhogwarts.com/harry-potter/comments/the-next-harry-potter-back-to-the-future-or-the-past.html Should J.K. Rowling write some new books that also involve the world of Harry Potter? Or, in the words of the Beatles, should she Let It Be? And if she does, what should they be about? Would you like to read books about Albus Severus Potter and his adventures at Hogwarts? Or would you like to know more about the times of James, Sirius and Remus? How about going all the way back to the time of Dumbledore and Grindelwald? Or even further? Beyond Hogwarts 2008-03-19T09:42:00-08:00 http://www.beyondhogwarts.com/harry-potter/comments/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-parts-1-and-2.html Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is dense with information that is crucial to the overall story. It's definitely too much to stuff into a two hour movie. So, do you think it's possible that the final Harry Potter adventure, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be made into two movies? And if it is, where would you end movie number one and start movie two? Beyond Hogwarts 2008-02-16T16:46:00-08:00 http://www.beyondhogwarts.com/harry-potter/articles/doing-the-math-how-many-kids-are-at-hogwarts.html On October 16, 2000, in an interview, J.K. Rowling was asked, "How many students attend Hogwarts, and how many students per year per house?" and she replied, simply, "There are about a thousand students at Hogwarts." And because she said it, this has persisted as the proper answer accepted by most fans. But I don't see how that could be correct. Beyond Hogwarts 2007-12-02T22:45:00-08:00