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Who can forget the scene from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone when Professor Snape sensed someone was nearby, reached out his hand to grab them, and narrowly missed Harry Potter under his ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Christmas is a really important time for many people, not just in real life, but also in fiction.

J.K. Rowling continues to sprinkle tidbits of the backstory on everyone’s favorite boy wizard over on the Pottermore Web site. It’s like J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion for the digital age. The ...

Harry Potter’s iconic “Invisibility Cloak” could perhaps be within our sight. Chinese scientists have devised a camouflage ...

Harry Potter fans, take note: Scientists have made an object “disappear” using a cloaking device similar in many ways to the invisibility cloak imagined by author J.K. Rowling. Researchers from the ...

WASHINGTON – The key to creating a Harry Potterlike invisibility cloak lies in manmade materials unlike any in nature or the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, researchers say. They’re laying ...

If you were given an invisibility cloak, what would you do with it? Harry Potter definitely wore the piece well as he used it to camouflage himself when he snuck off to Hogsmeade Village or hid from ...

Are physics – not magic — the key to a Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak? New research indicates yes. A recent study by researchers from Imperial College London involves a new class of space-aged ...

Princess Leia's ceremonial white gown from the original "Star Wars" film will go up for auction next week alongside more than 1,400 Hollywood costumes, props and other movie paraphernalia. The live ...

Wizards and wand makers. Death Eaters and Dementors. And a whole lot of Harry Potters. They’ll probably all be packing Cape Coral’s Red Headed Witches this Saturday for Hogwarts on Del Prado. The ...

Texas scientists create "mirage effect" in lab. Oct. 5, 2011 — -- It's hard to write about the experiment done at the University of Texas at Dallas without invoking Harry Potter and his ...