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The tagline “It All Ends” has adorned every poster for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, which indeed does bring the seven-book, eight-film franchise to a close once it opens on July 15.

I have good news for all you muggles out there, for the first time, you don't have to be Harry Potter or a descendant of Salazar Slytherin to become a Parselmouth. I'm sure I don't have to remind all ...

Parseltongue, the language of snakes, is rarely spoken and even more rarely heard. It is a very uncommon skill, with Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort being the most well-known Parselmouths in the ...

Twenty years after Harry, Ron, and Hermione Apparated into our hearts, the Harry Potter series isn't done giving up its secrets. Today, one Redditor thinks they may have solved one of the series' ...

“Sorry, I don’t understand.” Luckily there is a translator for that! To non-speakers, languages invented for television and books may sound like utter gibberish ...

Parseltongue – the "gift" inadvertently passed on to Harry Potter by Lord Voldemort during his attack on him as a baby. The hissing language is usually described as the ability to speak to snakes but ...

From the beginning of Harry Potter, it's clear that Professor Dumbledore is a brilliant man. He understands magic so well that anything he knows or does isn't a surprise. So when Dumbledore appears to ...

Thanks to J.K. Rowling, we all know about Harry Potter and his friends. But what about the other magical kids? Not everyone can speak Parseltongue or defeat He Who Must Not Be Named, right? Matt Cox ...

Cape Town - "The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. Enemies of the heir, beware." Another year, another series of adventures. It's Harry Potter's second year at Hogwarts, and the days are just packed ...