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The 67 Best Harry Potter Podcasts for Every True Potterhead
Have you listened to the Harry Potter audiobooks enough times you can quote it? Heard the scores of the movies so many times you dream with them as a soundtrack? Maybe it's time to find something else to listen to – and that's where Harry Potter podcasts come in...
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How to Make Magical Harry Potter Floating Candles
As we come into the festive holiday season, it's time to start preparing. After all, one of the most important ways to make your Muggle house magical is with decorations! I've always been inspired by the floating candles described in the Harry Potter books – and brought to life on-screen in the movies...
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How to Make the Most of One Day at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
While we all know that Disneyland is supposed to be the happiest place on earth, I know somewhere better: the most magical place on earth at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando! If you're planning a trip to Orlando, you might wonder how much time you need to explore the two parts of the Wizarding World – Hogsmeade (Universal Studios) and Diagon Alley (Universal's Islands of Adventure)...
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35 Magical Harry Potter Film Locations Around the World
As Harry Potter learned while attending the Quidditch World Cup, the Wizarding World is a much bigger place than he imagined. Wizards live in secret all over the world, in places as far flung as the Americas and Africa. When it comes to the Harry Potter films, you might be surprised to learn that some of the places where each movie was shot are equally diverse...
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The 12 Best Harry Potter Subscription Boxes
Is there anything better than receiving a parcel by Owl Post? Despite being as a grown witch, I love opening the front door to discover a box of goodies waiting on the doorstep – even when I know exactly what's inside as I've ordered it on one of those Muggle shopping sites...
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How to Make a Perfect Harry Potter Pumpkin Juice Recipe
As we approach Autumn, it's time to start thinking of All Things Fall: leaves changing color, hand-knitted sweaters (courtesy of Mrs. Weasley?), and pumkpin everything. In fact, this week is usually the first week of the year when Starbucks offers its Pumpkin Spice Latte... For those of us who love Harry Potter, a Pumpkin Juice recipe is more appropriate...
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How to Make Amortentia
(Recipe for Muggle Love Potion)Love is a powerful force in the world – both wizarding and muggle alike. It motivates so much of what happens in the Harry Potter series, from Lily Potter's sacrifice for her son to Molly Weasley's final battle with Bellatrix Lestrange. It even explains the strange, warped way that Tom Marvolo Riddle is born into this world – the first time – as his witch mother so deeply loved his muggle father.
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30 Magical, Must-Have Items to Decorate a Harry Potter Bathroom
Let’s be honest: there’s nothing magical about the bathroom. It’s one of the most overlooked and underloved places in everyone’s home, and for good reason; most of what we do in there is habitual hygiene stuff. It’s really no surprise that Moaning Myrtle, the most depressing ghost in the Wizarding World, would choose to mope in a dingy, dank bathroom. Even Hogwarts doesn’t have totally great loos! But while we can’t all have a Prefect’s Bathroom caliber place to wash and take care of other bodily functions, everyone can have a Harry Potter bathroom right at home. In this post, I’m sharing some of the Harry Potter bathroom decor and…
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11 Harry Potter Cookbooks to Create Mouth-Watering Magic
It's one of the most overlooked parts of the magical world, how food is so important to the narrative of the Harry Potter books. After all, some of the most important events in the series take place around meals: becoming friends with Hermione after defeating the troll, Nearly Headless Nick's Deathday Party before hearing the Basilisk, and even meeting the Triwizard champions from the Goblet of Fire...
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11 Magical Harry Potter Locations in Edinburgh
Hogwarts, Scotland, or both? Even if you've never been to Edinburgh, you probably have seen it in your mind's eye – it's one of the primary locations that inspired JK Rowling as she wrote the first Harry Potter book back in the day. Rowling was living in Edinburgh at the time and the evidence of the city's distinct style is evident throughout the Wizarding World. Even today, there are a number of important Harry Potter locations in Edinburgh that you can visit...
