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The reign of Dolores Jane Umbridge over Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Harry Potter was mercifully brief, but that doesn’t mean that this pink tweed-clad toad didn’t manage to do a lot of damage to the school or it’s students during her stay. Umbridge was a teacher who hated students and an educator who hated learning, and her only pleasure in life seemed to come from dominating, abusing, and humiliating people that she had power over....

HBO’s Watchmen has been shrouded in mystery and uncertainty ever since it was first revealed. A modern continuation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s classic graphic novel helmed by the guy who gave us one of the strangest (and best) TV series of the last decade in The Leftovers? Sign us up but also, we have questions. Like, do we really need more Watchmen? Now that the first episode has dropped, we can answer that last question with an emphatic “Yes!...

In addition to FitPort and MyFitnessPal, a few more app updates with HealthKit support have become available on the App Store. These updates allow you to share health and fitness data with Apple’s new Health app on iOS 8 now that Apple has enabled HealthKit with the release of iOS 8.0.2 after issues in iOS 8.0 and iOS 8.0.1. First up is WebMD for iPhone. Users of the WebMD iPhone app can now allow the health information service’s Healthy Target feature to communicate with data shared with Apple’s health app....

This week, we’re talking about the new Apple TV and everything you need to know about it. We’ve been using It for a little while now and have a lot to discuss. Big thanks to Audible and Bushel for sponsoring this week’s episode. The Happy Hour podcast is available for download on iTunes and through our dedicated RSS feed.Thanks to Audible.com, get your free 30 day trial at audible.com/happyhour and Jamf Now (formerly Bushel) for sponsoring this week’s episode....

Any fan of the Harry Potter franchise has a soft spot in their hearts for the Marauders. Well, that’s the case with at least three of the four members. We first found out about them in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The four Marauders were James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. They were known for creating the Marauder’s Map that Harry and the Weasley twins used frequently....

A doctor who can speak to animals may be the selling point of Dolittle’s wacky adventure, which is out in theaters this weekend, but it’s the human characters that make up the heart of the film. After secluding himself away from the world, Dr. Dolittle (Robert Downey Jr.) can only be induced to return to society by a very brave pair of children. Harry Collett plays Tommy Stubbins, and he spoke with Screen Rant about the burgeoning dynamic between the naïve apprentice and his world-weary hero....

The magical world of Harry Potter is as complex as it is fascinating. And that goes doubly so for family ties. Thankfully, we know a fair bit about the genealogy in this world. And yet there are still surprises to be found – or to be reminded of. The pureblooded wizarding families all seem to be connected, but that makes total sense when you think about it. After all, there are only so many families you can marry into if you want to maintain that status....

Draco Malfoy is a rather complex character from Harry Potter. While it might have been Snape’s redemption story that was focused on more in the books, many fans have argued that it was Draco who deserved more of this focus. In many ways, he was a victim, but in many other ways, he was a horrible person. He’s definitely a character that many love and that inspired a lot of debate....

Former star of The Bachelorette and recent Dancing with the Stars winner, Hannah Brown took some time to reflect about her sudden rise to fame as a reality TV star in 2019. She revealed that her honesty with her audience was entirely refusing to be a fake version of herself. Hannah’s authenticity really helped her connect with her fans and makes her audience feel like they’re friends of hers. She began 2019 as a contestant on Colton Underwood’s season of The Bachelor, placing 7th....

The notion of continuing SYFY’s Happy! after what turned out to be a highly stylized, hyper-violent, and always over-the-top first season seems like a difficult task. After all, the story of Nick Sax (Christopher Meloni) racing through the streets of New York City to find his kidnapped daughter Hailey (Bryce Lorenzo) from a deranged Santa, all while a corrupt children’s entertainer, Sonny Shine (Christopher Fitzgerald), made the world a creepier, less festive place, seemed, like the comic of the same name from Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson on which it was based, destined to be a one-and-done series....

Draco Malfoy was first introduced to us all the way back in 2001 as an arrogant, evil Slytherin student motivated by an evil intention, surrounded by his subservient lackeys and always trying to get one up on Harry Potter himself. As the Harry Potterfranchise developed from a friendly, heartwarming children’s film into a selection of dark battles against pure horror, the character of Draco Malfoy developed too. Here are the ten biggest ways he changed from The Philosopher’s Stone to The Deathly Hallows....

New Hawkeye fan art imagines what Hailee Steinfeld could look like in the role of Kate Bishop in the upcoming TV show. Clint Barton, played by Jeremy Renner, made his first appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe back when Thor was released in 2011. The character was then fully introduced in 2012’s The Avengers and has been a main part of the team ever since. Despite Barton seemingly going back into retirement at the conclusion of Avengers: Endgame, Hawkeye is getting his own TV show on Disney’s upcoming streaming service called Disney+....

Heart Analyzer is a great third-party app that allows you to see incredible detail from Apple Watch heart rate readings. In an update today, the app has added live heart rate support, improved complications for Series 4 users, and more. With support for live heart rates, Heart Analyzer will now record your heart rate in real-time when you have the app open. This allows you to get detailed information about your heart rate at specific times, and view trends and graphs over time....

​The internet has its good and bad and we have to be extra careful to not fall on the claws of the hackers or attackers. This can happen from buying online, getting your account hacked or getting your files “kidnapped”, on this last one is when your files get encrypted and the attacker wants you to pay him a certain amount to get the files decrypted. In this article, we will talk about this ransomware that until today has infected more than 230,000+ computers in 150 countries and has raised more than $50,000,00....

Rumors are already floating around about Apple’s iPhone 6s and we’ve got the rundown on everything. Along with that, we discuss WWDC 2015 and our expectations for software and hardware announcements. The Happy Hour podcast is available for download on iTunes and through our dedicated RSS feed… [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/205298207?secret_token=s-sOr52″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”150″ iframe=”true” /] New episodes of Happy Hour are available every Wednesday. As mentioned, you can download this podcast via iTunes or plug in our RSS feed link into your favorite podcasting app....

JK Rowling sent fans into meltdown over the prospect of another Harry Potter movie recently when she returned from a social media hiatus and posted a picture related to the popular West End play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Ultimately, hopes of another movie were dashed and people will have to wait some more to see if the Boy Who Lived ever reappears on the big screen. However, wouldn’t it be great if there was another movie?...

When it comes to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, there’s a mixed camp among the fans. It’s the first film in the series that seriously deviates from the novels, making it more action-packed and film-paced but less true to the books, leaving not only a split fandom but plenty of plot holes. Both the film and the book contain troubling discrepancies that bother fans from either camp as well, leaving us all to wonder about them many years later....

Magical creatures haven’t always had the best time of it in the world of Harry Potter. If you spend any time paying attention to their classes – or their history – you’ll immediately get a sense of this. Hermione Granger was probably the most vocal character in regards to protections – for some of the creatures of this world. Newt Scamander was also a champion for those without a voice. But the truth remains that the wizarding world has a long way to go, when it comes to how they take care of the magical creatures that live around them....

The Harry Potter franchise has shaped the imaginations of a whole generation. J.K. Rowling’s sweeping saga of the Boy Who Lived captured millions of hearts all over the globe ever since Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was first published in the U.K. back in 1997. The popularity of the Wizarding World grew even further thanks to the feature film adaptation released in 2001. All seven books have become international best-sellers, which in turn have been transformed into eight blockbusters on silver screens everywhere....

You all might have played the famous Wordle game. In the Wordle game, the players have to guess the correct word in a certain number of turns. Heardle is a similar game but with some twist. In this game, you will have to guess the word after listening to a track. The track will be of 16 seconds. And you will have to guess the correct word in five turns. You will get to hear the tracks at certain times so that you can guess the song....