Before you read this essay, I want to issue a general warning. I laughed when Severus Snape zinged Hermione about her teeth. Now you know where my loyalties lie. That said, this writer is not about to ...

Initially set up as an antagonist who seemed out to get Harry from the start, Snape quickly became one of the most polarizing characters in and out of the books. Snape would be a major roadblock and a ...

The plots I first encountered Harry Potter when I was 23. It was 1998, and a friend who was working in the children's section in Waterstone's lent me a new book she'd read at work. It was set in a ...