• Wizarding culture The so-called “potions riddle” was a logic puzzle set up at Hogwarts to protect the Philosopher’s Stone. The riddle was devised by Severus Snape on the assumption that many brilliant practitioners of magic were very poor logicians. Read More
• Wizarding culture Many books are produced in the Wizarding World. Some of them are recreational, others are scholarly. Some are used as textbooks at Hogwarts. Known publishers are listed here, along with books they are known to have published: Dust & Mildew The Philosophy of the Mundane: Why the Muggles Prefer Not… Read More
• Organizations • Wizarding culture Pure-blood extremist groups are dangerous radical groups who will use violence against Muggles to promote their supremacist, prejudiced views. A number of these groups were active during the tenure of Maximillian Crowdy as Minister for Magic, but he exposed them and routed them out. Some suggest that his death in… Read More