Dear J.K. Rowling, I hate writing this. It isn’t going to make any difference. You’ve made your choices, and been very clear about why you’ve made them. You haven’t tried to listen to the...
Daniel Radcliffe is standing behind the trans community after J.K. Rowling made yet another series of transphobic tweets on June 6. In a statement published by The Trevor Project, the non-profit ...
https://reactormag.com/daniel-radcliffe-speaks-out-against-j-k-rowlings-transphobic-tweets/
Like the extended Doctor Who family and the folks behind Dungeons & Dragons, the good Muggles at Wizarding World, the official Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts fan-hub, are encouraging fans ...
https://reactormag.com/allow-daniel-radcliffe-to-read-to-you-the-first-chapter-of-harry-potter/
Fantasy fiction has a sweet tooth. It seems that worlds full of magic and mayhem need sugar to keep their denizens powered through endless winters, strange adventures, and harrowing school years....
https://reactormag.com/8-sugary-fantasies-that-indulge-our-sweet-tooth/
I grew up on chosen one stories, and if you like science fiction and fantasy—which, duh, you’re here, aren’t you?—you probably did too. They are everywhere. I always loved them, and I sti...
https://reactormag.com/it-is-your-destiny-5-conversations-about-becoming-the-chosen-one/
Ever wonder about the science of centaurs, hippogriffs, or nifflers? A new documentary exploring the magical critters that populate the Potterverse will be right up your Diagon Alley! BBC One’s...
You’re enjoying a lush door-stopper fantasy series and all the lavish descriptions therein, and then there’s a banquet scene, and all of a sudden you’re overcome with a huge craving for Ste...
https://reactormag.com/sci-fi-and-fantasy-cookbooks-fans-would-like-to-see/
When I was fourteen, my friends—all of us with conservative, religious, Southern parents—used to smuggle makeup into school: lipsticks hidden in jeans pockets, little tubes of foundation shov...
Due to personal reasons, I am incapable of talking about pain without humor. It’s a defense mechanism, I admit—when you’re dealing with it a lot (chronic pain is a thing I’ve been accusto...
https://reactormag.com/9-characters-i-love-because-they-are-hurting-and-so-am-i/
When it comes to fantasy creatures, we feel like dragons get all the credit. And we get it, they’re flashy and scaly and there’s fire-breathing and they have unnerving laughs, but they aren�...
https://reactormag.com/take-flight-with-6-fantasy-creatures-that-are-just-as-cool-as-dragons/
Stubby the Rocket launched Tor.com 11 years ago today, on July 20, 2008! And after last year’s raucous 10 year birthday party we’re really looking forward to a cupcake or six and a nice quiet...
https://reactormag.com/happy-birthday-to-tor-com-we-turn-11-today-and-hey-whats-this/
Fantasy fiction has a sweet tooth. It seems that worlds full of magic and mayhem need sugar to keep their denizens powered through endless winters, strange adventures, and harrowing school years....
https://reactormag.com/8-fantasy-tales-that-indulge-our-sweet-tooth/
It’s always hard to believe the words “The End”, isn’t it? Seems like there should always be room for another sentence after that. A paragraph. A chapter. And then sometimes… there’s ...
https://reactormag.com/5-unexpected-continuations-of-beloved-stories/
Whether you’ve got a replica, a doppelgänger, or a straight-up clone, having a duplicate of some sort certainly helps you move through life a little bit easier, from a temporary stand-in to a ...
It turns out that you can use clues from the new Harry Potter mobile game Wizards Unite to place it precisely within the timeline of the main books and their follow-up “eighth story” play. So...
If you need something done, there’s usually only one person for the job… and no, we’re not talking about a chosen one. We’re talking about the women who roll up their sleeves and get sh*t...
In the four years since her Harry Potter-inspired fantasy Carry On was published, author Rainbow Rowell said at BookCon, even when she was immersed in other projects, “the back of my brain neve...
https://reactormag.com/rainbow-rowell-wayward-son-bookcon-headcanon-harry-potter/
I still remember finishing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in the middle of the night in summer 2007, crying as I turned the final page, mostly out of the catharsis of a solid series ending...
https://reactormag.com/4-great-post-harry-potter-works-that-arent-harry-potter/
J.K. Rowling has done much to revive the literary genre of boarding school stories, which achieved its greatest (pre-Potter) popularity in the period between Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857) and t...
https://reactormag.com/5-sff-stories-about-surviving-the-dangers-of-boarding-school/
Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy aren’t queer, but their counterparts in Rainbow Rowell’s novel Carry On, Simon Snow and Basilton “Baz” Grimm-Pitch, are. In our current “post-Potter” age...
https://reactormag.com/queering-hogwarts-fantasy-books-that-succeed-where-harry-potter-fails/
Leah dropped a tweet into Slack with an “ummmm” affixed beforehand: Hogwarts didn't always have bathrooms. Before adopting Muggle plumbing methods in the eighteenth century, witches and wizar...
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The second of five Fantastic Beasts films has hit theaters, filling in gaps and corners of J.K. Rowling’s rebranded Wizarding World. But while the first outing charmed a fair number of viewers ...
https://reactormag.com/the-crimes-of-the-crimes-of-grindelwald/
We set out on a dangerous mission: to build a better butterbeer. We searched through recipes! We gleaned truths from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter! We scoffed at cream soda! And finally, ju...
https://reactormag.com/try-homemade-butterbeer-for-your-next-holiday-feast/
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has been on Broadway for about six months and collected six Tonys after a successful run in London. I was lucky enough to see the play a few months ago, and whil...
https://reactormag.com/jk-rowling-morality-harry-potter-cs-lewis-narnia/
Are you a good witch or a bad witch? Whether you’re trying to protect the townspeople, take all the power for yourself, or just lay low while other supernatural forces duke it out, chances are ...
https://reactormag.com/the-best-good-witch-vs-bad-witch-throwdowns/
The Broadway (formerly of the original West End production) cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child chatted with fans for an hour at New York Comic Con to answer questions and talk about how th...
https://reactormag.com/if-harry-potter-is-your-dad-hell-read-harry-potter-to-you/
There are some fun moments in the final trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald: Jude Law enjoying being the master of understatement as Dumbledore, not to mention a soulful Mirr...
https://reactormag.com/fantastic-beasts-the-crimes-of-grindelwald-nagini-claudia-kim-maledictus/
Before diving into the list itself, I’d like to establish a few things: first, these are completely subjective rankings based on my own favorite series. The list takes into consideration thing...
https://reactormag.com/the-10-best-completed-sf-and-fantasy-series-according-to-me/
Much of children’s literature creates fantastical scenarios in which the young protagonists can endure all sorts of danger that reality would never permit. It is the nature of fiction to allow ...
https://reactormag.com/why-would-any-parent-send-kids-to-hogwarts/