J.K. Rowling, in support of English PEN, an organization that defends freedom of expression and works to remove barriers from literature, created a handwritten Harry Potter prequel that she wrote on a double sided postcard and allowed English PEN to sell at auction. A lucky bidder won it, purchased it, and everything was honky-dory. That is, until that bidder's home was burgled.

Here's a tradition we didn't ask for: J.K. Rowling apologizing for killing off characters on the anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts.

Jude Law has been cast as young Albus Dumbledore in the upcoming Fantastic Beasts sequels and this is fantastic news. See what I did there?

This just keeps getting better and better.

After Piers Morgan was told off on Real Time with Bill Maher for defending Trump's Muslim ban, he tried and failed to best J.K. Rowling in a Twitter feud.

In a deleted scene from the film, Tina and Queeny sing the school's anthem.

It's been a big year for Harry Potter fans with the introduction of the series' only proper sequel on the stage with Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, as well as a whole new movie franchise kicking off with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Now Barnes and Noble is getting in the spirit of both Harry Potter and the holidays with Yule Ball events!

This latest entry to Rowling's cinematic wizarding world is a complicated mixture of whimsical fun, sweet romance, and pitiless darkness.

A lot of new material has been added to the Harry Potter world after-the-fact, but there are some new bits of information that fans wish had been included in the first place. One of those is Dumbledore's sexuality—it was nice that Rowling said he was gay, but that kind of representation is way more powerful when it's more than just an out-of-universe confirmation. Rowling is now hinting we might get something more in the Fantastic Beasts movies.

HBO has acquired the U.S. and Canadian rights to the BBC One produced Cormoran Strike, which is based on JK Rowling's crime novels (though they were published under the pen name Robert Galbraith).

We'll be happier when this election stuff is all behind us in November, but it's still important to remember that the awful nightmare will continue far into the future if Donald Trump wins. So, because we can't afford to look away, let's turn our attention to two of our favorite women and their thoughts on the subject, because we'd much rather talk about them than him.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them kicks off a whole new era of magic, complete with its own story, heroes, and villains. This new trailer sets up an American wizarding community where some wizards don't seem too happy with hiding themselves from the Muggles  (or "No-maj" in America, but come on, no one's going to use that term outside of the movie).

One of the best things about J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books is the work of Mary GrandPré, the illustrator whose work graces the pages of the original series. Now, another artist has taken the illustrations to the next level in a series of completely illustrated retellings of the Harry Potter stories, making them even more magical.

Amy Schumer is on a tour right now, and from what we're seeing it's fantastic, as a recent tweet from J.K. Rowling praised Schumer as a "goddess."

Whether you were aching for a continuation of the story of The Boy Who Lived or would've been happy leaving it up to imagination, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is now part of the series' canon, which makes things tough for fans who can't get to London to experience it for themselves. The printed edition of the script arrived recently to let everyone get in on the magic, but Warner Bros. wants to do one better and adapt the play into a movie like the rest of the stories.

Did you know that J.K. Rowling has an impressive collection of sketches of her visions for her characters in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone? Let's give them a look, shall we?

Harry Potter fans and Donald Trump voters are probably not one and the same. That's the result of a new study conducted by communications professor Diana Mutz, which shows that reading the series of Harry Potter books directly correlates to an individual's personal opinion of the Republican presidential candidate.