Potter Tour

08/12/2025

"...Allows us to build bigger, more beautiful futures". But only if you can sustain watching for nearly 6 minutes 😰

Reading may feel like something that comes naturally, but it's taken thousands of years for our brains to develop the capacity to do it. Click here to subscr...

29/09/2025

In 1979, Stephen Fry, fellow Cambridge Footlight nicknamed her 'Emma Talented'. Hair reflects the character!

An explosion, a conspiracy, and an unlikely duo on a mission to expose the truth. From the team behind the Emmy-winning series Slow Horses comes a brand new ...

26/08/2025

"Hey, look there's a kite!", says a 7 year old boy. His friend chirps in,
"Yeah, and it's a bald Eagle! I'm going to shoot at it and make it EVEN more American".

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12/03/2025

I want him to lead the Hogwarts' school song with GUSTO. And that English accent ✨

Speaking with Collider's Steve Weintraub alongside Geoffrey Rush for The Rule of Jenny Pen, Lithgow opened up on his feelings on taking on the role of Dumble...

19/12/2024

Edinburgh appreciation post!✨ Opening a House of MinaLima in this city of magic has been an absolute dream—thank you to all the witches and wizards who have already traveled from near and far to visit our new home. And, to everyone else, House of MinaLima Edinburgh hopes to welcome you soon!

26/11/2024

Museum Context, nee Diagon House, has competition! And it's purple like my hall. Nae too bad!

It's adjacent to the Wanda / Vision snog scene in Avengers Endgame. "Cockburn Street". Have fun with that!

Edinburgh, home of Harry Potter has gained yet another ode to 'the boy who lived' - but this shop is unlike any other, opened by the real graphic designers b...

20/01/2024

Can you catch the Harry Potter reference? Disney gave Russell Davies, the writer and show runner a note, that Ruby and the Doctor should meet before they meet. The note was embraced and created the ebullient scene which graced the Christmas trailers.

When Disney sought the rights to Harry Potter, they received a note from JK, "no". The man who never dies got into bed with Disney, the Boy Who Lived, well he was fine in the cupboard under the stairs.

The Goblins are coming for Christmas! 🧌🎄 Listen to THE GOBLIN SONG from 'The Church on Ruby Road' - available to stream now! 🎶 Find out more: http://bbc.i...

01/03/2023

I read today that Oxford's literary hub, the Lamb & Flag, has finally reopened. When I visited for a Philip Pullman 'His Dark Materials Tour' (cancelled on me - Grrr!), I found the Inkling's pub had been spun with Shelob's silk for years 🤯

Now Oxford trounces us, because all our famous Rowling cafes have shut. Edinburgh's fading.

I didn't take an Oxford Alumni tour, but they sent me a celebratory email...

I’m sure you’ve all heard of the Lamb and Flag – it is one of the most famous and oldest pubs in Oxford (it's 408 years old!!) and is frequently featured in Inspector Morse episodes!

The pub is located on St. Giles street, just next to St. John’s College,

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Historically any profits from the pub were used to fund DPhil (PhD) scholarships for students! During the pandemic the pub was forced to close again…. But a few months ago it was re-opened by community group called the Inklings as a tribute to the author’s group that used to meet at the pub in the 1930’s/1940’s which included the likes of JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis!

The pub has now undergone a complete renovation and is definitely worth a visit – both for the history and the beer.

24/08/2022

Elrond says "You have fought long enough Galadriel. Put up your sword"

A few beats later Galadrial says "Without it what am I to be?"

I'll answer you there! A Wallflower. I think they're trolling the Tolkien fandom, who kick at Galadriel as a military commander - Amazon... how naughty!

Well they speak nicely archaically. High, as Tolkien aspired to. And the hobbits have charming rhetoric, 'with our hearts, even bigger than our feet'. These are no low self esteem hobbits; makes me tear.

Imagine a series about the founding of Hogwarts, in a wild, Dark Age Britain. Maybe when Rowling resolves the Robin - Strike romance in her detective novels.

Watch the Official Trailer for now. Join us in Middle-earth on September 2.Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power brings to...

27/04/2022

Favourite? All of them. Go see it today! It's the best, probably the last, Rowling won't cry she writes for herself, and this will be going out at peak. Make like Ron approaching Honeydukes, stick your tongue out and Go Go Go!

15/04/2022

The Secrets of Dumbledore
I saw it last night. I have some thoughts...

The movie showcases Rowling's thoughts on love, the Brexit vote & Prime Minister David Cameron; ultimately it's a call to the LGBTQ community. The Secrets of Dumbledore is a heart-swelling climax for Newt's arc, the apex of Tina and Jacob Kowalski's love story. It's a conclusion to many of the key threads that were grown in the first 2 movies. Just as Rowling promised 'answers'.

If it continues from this point on it's Dumbledore's adventure and the resolution of his lost love for Grindelwald; as Dumbledore walks away on his mission, the call to the LGBTQ community is 'Do you want a love story in the wizarding world? Or are you happy with Marvel's hyper Gonadal men?'

I love it, I think it's the best yet, packed with action, and heart, and beasts and kinetic wizarding duelling an absolute 🤯 Rowling tour de force. The audience ratings presently place it above the first episode on Rotten Tomatoes.

Sure the critics say they can't understand it, as they did the last episode, but it's like an IQ test for them: too stupid for complex tormented characters, too boneheaded for complex fantasy elements such as the blood pact pendant, or Credence's Obscurial cloud of hate and bitterness, the abandoned child's baggage.

The critics are simply obsolete Cleansweeps in a world of Firebolts, they get left behind. Their brains have been marvelled to mush.

Its action, its thrills, its turns and arcs deserve a big-screen experience. I can't imagine if we get the final 2 they'll beat this.

I think it's all right 👍

02/03/2022

I've measured the font size of JK Rowling's 3 credits and I'm giving Warner Brothers a pass.

But the crank is still watching 👀

Watch the new trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore only in theaters April 15. -----------------https://www.facebook.co...