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The 18 Best Harry Potter Pet Gifts for Your Own Crookshanks or Fluffy
Our pets hold a special place to us: they provide companionship and love, and once they've come into our families, we can hardly imagine life without them. Even when they are messy or tear up the furniture or toys or leave hair everywhere, we always love 'em! This is true in the Wizarding world too. In the Harry Potter series, we read stories time and again about...
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Harry Potter Pumpkin Pasties Recipe: How to Make a Magical Treat
Among the many foods I wish were more common in America, pasties are high on the list. When I was growing up, my Croatian grandma and her sisters would often make pasties when we visited; these big pastries were filled with meat and potatoes, and I loved drowning mine in ketchup when I was small...
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The 20 Best Harry Potter Airbnbs Around the World
When most people travel, they book a flight (or other transport) and choose a hotel or vacation rental from all the reviews and listings on the internet. Not us magical folks though – when we’re planning a trip, we want it to be magical from start to finish! That’s why these Harry Potter Airbnbs are perfect for witches and wizards who also love to explore the world. After scouring Airbnb listings from across my global Marauders Map...
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Draco Malfoy Costume: How to Make Your Own at Home
Have you ever dreamed of prowling the hallways of Hogwarts as the formidable and silver-haired Slytherin himself, Draco Malfoy? Well, it's time to put down your quills and parchments, set aside that potion you've been brewing, and heed the call of the fashion-forward side of Wizarding World. After all, as Draco would say, "You don't want to go making friends with the wrong sort..."
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How to Design Your Harry Potter Office: Decor, Desk Accessories & More
Like the muggle world, the Wizarding world runs smoothly thanks to the hard work of thousands of witches and wizards in offices across the country. We don't see it much beyond scenes in the Ministry of Magic, but there are a lot of jobs that require magical folk to toil away for hours in the office – just like we do...
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The 10 Best Harry Potter Travel Accessories: Trunks, Bags & More
Planes, trains, and automobiles – it doesn't matter how you travel, there's something enchanting about exploring a new place. I love travel – it's my favorite hobby and even a main part of my Muggle career. But I don't love how travel can be exhausting and uncomfortable, so I'm always looking for great travel gear to make my life easier...
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Harry Potter Felix Felicis Recipe: How to Make Liquid Luck
If you could have one potion from the magical world right now, what would it be? You probably know immediately – it's gotta be Felix Felicis, also known as "liquid luck." I mean, who wouldn't want a potion that makes "all your endeavors tend to succeed... at least until the effects wear off..."
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The Complete Guide to Harry Potter Film Locations (Around the Muggle 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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Professor Trelawney Costume: How to Make Your Own at Home
In the whole wide (Wizarding) world, there are a lot of great characters out there. But there is perhaps none so important to the trajectory of Harry Potter's life than Sybil Trelawney, the prospective Divination professor who proclaimed a prophecy that set He Who Must Not Be Named on a collision course with our favorite boy wizard...
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How to Plan a Bewitching Harry Potter Bachelorette Party
Whether you’re the maid of honor, a bridesmaid, or the bride herself, you don’t need Veritaserum to know one truth about the bachelorette party you’re planning: it has to be Harry Potter themed! Everything about weddings can be magical...