Source: Dave Benett / Getty. In today’s episode of Water Is Wet, The Sky Is Blue, And White People Are Exhaustingly Fragile, a Black man has been cast to portray Hogwarts Professor Severus Snape ...

In the books and films, Snape, a professor at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, was a 30-something, unattractive professor who had “greasy black hair, cold black eyes, sallow skin ...

The watercolor cover art for the first edition of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” was painted in 1996 by a recent art school graduate from Britain who was working at a bookstore.

The original watercolor illustration for the cover of Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone, the first book in author J.K. Rowling’s famous series, is now the most expensive piece of Potter ...

Thomas Taylor's original 1997 watercolor illustration for the cover of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which achieved a record-breaking sale price at a Sotheby's auction in New York on ...

'Blood at the Root,' LaDarrion Williams' first novel in a three-book deal — a series that centers on a Black boy in a YA fantasy saga — is the kind of fiction he wishes existed when he was a kid.

If you bought Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Sorcerer's Stone in the U.S.) when it was first released, get ready to feel tragically aware of the passage of time. This year, the book is ...

Creator Of Harry Potter’s HBCU Reimagining Speaks About The Book "Blood At The Root" is the first of a three-part series that published on May 7.

E arlier in the summer, the original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was sold for a record £1.5m.The book is more than 25 years old, but the price the watercolour ...

A first edition copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was the previous record-holder.It sold for $421,000 at Heritage Auctions in Dallas in 2021. Taylor’s illustration sold for ...

Books Harry Potter Cover Art Fetches Record Price Of $1.9M At ... Taylor completed the painting in just two days using concentrated watercolors on cold-pressed watercolor paper with black pencil.