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The relationship in Harry Potter between Ron and Hermione is one that has caused some debate within the fandom. While some fans like their relationship and how it was built up over the books, other people feel that they wouldn’t have been great together. Some fans think that Ron and Hermione might have been better off in the long run being with other people. In fact, even J.K. Rowling herself has said that these two probably shouldn’t have gotten together....

The team behind Hell or High Water is reuniting for a new movie project under the Netflix banner. David Mackenzie’s neo-western/crime drama, Hell or High Water was a sleeper hit in 2016, going on to garner four Oscar nominations including one for Best Picture. Telling a powerful story rooted in rural American economic desperation, the film stars Chris Pine and Ben Foster as brothers who became bank robbers in a last-ditch attempt to save their family ranch....

The magical world of the Harry Potter book and film series is one of the most rich and vibrant fictional universes around, and it’s easy to see why these stories captured the hearts and minds of so many readers and viewers around the world. This fictional world (which is supposed to coexist with our own) is full of unique kinds of magical animals, creatures, and beings. One of the most mysterious and terrifying creatures in the Harry Potter universe is the Dementor....

Harry Potter’s distinctive, lightning bolt-shaped scar is arguably the most well-known facial blemish in all of modern pop culture. The result of dark wizard Lord Voldemort’s failed attempt to do away with the boy wizard as a baby, the scar – coupled with a pair of eyeglasses, naturally – has come to represent a shorthand way of referring to the character. Over the course of seven Harry Potter novels, eight film adaptations, the Cursed Child stage show and numerous interviews, series creator JK Rowling has divulged plenty of interesting tidbits relating to Harry’s scar....

HBO is reportedly negotiating with Apple to have the Apple TV included as a launch device when the network’s new standalone streaming service launches next month. International Business Times reports Apple has been “aggressive” in pushing to get access to the new service as HBO reportedly plans a launch by mid-April in time for the latest season of hit show Game of Thrones: HBO is in talks with Apple to make Apple TV one of the launch partners for its highly anticipated streaming service when it debuts next month....

For me, the most fascinating thing about Heartbleed is that it is so banal. Such a mundane, textbook, well understood and well-worn coding error. A payload (message) sent by the client must be reflected back by the server, telling the server that the length is longer than the payload really was, leading it to read and reflect the message plus whatever was hanging around in nearby memory. What most people don’t seem to appreciate is that this isn’t some extraordinary deeply hidden and fiendishly difficult vulnerability to exploit or detect; once any researcher who can use a fuzzer turns their hand to the Heartbeat extension, they should surely spot the vulnerabilty … and yet, it went for two years in open source software until this finally happened....

The Avengers and His Dark Materials are having quite the year. With the debut of Disney+ and the premiere of His Dark Materials on HBO comics and fantasy fans have had quite a lot to be thankful for. As was given away in the premiere episode of His Dark Materials the show, the animal companions, or daemons, that follow the characters around are manifestations of the souls of those individuals....

This is our year in review. We’ll discuss everything we’ve seen, product releases, and how we feel about it all in the Apple ecosystem. The Happy Hour podcast is available for download on iTunes and through our dedicated RSS feed. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238842433″ 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....

Of all the adult couples in Harry Potter, Arthur and Molly Weasley are the pair that fans most often cite as being goals. These two have a long-lasting marriage and seven kids, and this is definitely a big feat. In many ways, these two are the best and only example of a married couple that Harry has in his life and who cares about him. While in many ways their relationship is great, there are also some things about Molly and Arthur’s relationship that are rather toxic....

Although the Wizarding World explained as much about Harry Potter’s story as possible, that hasn’t stopped fans from coming up with their own theories about events and characters. Many of these have reached J.K. Rowling one way or another, who has even debunked a few, like one that said Albus Dumbledore had his own horcrux – and it’s a theory Rowling actually hates. Readers all over the world were introduced to Harry Potter and the Wizarding World in 1997 when Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was published, and that was the beginning of many years of magic....

Okay, let’s be honest here: who hasn’t daydreamed about becoming an Auror? All of the examples of aurors in Harry Potter are pretty hardcore. Mad-Eye Moody is probably the first auror to come to mind, but there are dozens of others. Tonks, Scrimgeour, and Kingsley are all aurors as well. So were Neville’s parents, Alice and Frank Longbottom. But what, exactly, does it take to become one? And who would be best suited for the job?...

Cedric Diggory was too good for the world of Harry Potter. He was kind, strong, intelligent, beautiful, and brave. He had a big heart and worked hard his entire life. He never expected things to just be handed to him freely without putting in any effort. Plus, everyone loved him – he was popular for all the right reasons. At the end of the day, Cedric was a serious catch and a really good person....

While Apple is bringing a handful of new emoji to its users with the upcoming release of iOS 10.2, the Unicode Consortium today approved 51 new emoji as part of the Unicode 10 release. The new emoji are based on requests from third-parties to the consortium over the past year and include emoji representing breastfeeding and a hijab emoji, as well as many others (via Emojipedia). In total, there are 36 new face emoji coming as part of Unicode 10....

Apple’s plans to release a new 21.5 4K iMac have been revealed and Microsoft has launched its attack against the iPad Pro and MacBook Pro. Along with that we get into our thoughts about Apple’s iPhone 6s and 6s Plus in somewhat of a review discussion after using the devices for almost a couple of weeks. Big thanks to Jamf Now (formerly Bushel) for sponsoring this week’s episode. To find out what awesome cloud-based mobile device management can do for you, check out https://www....

When looking back on the Harry Potter series, it can be easy to start to notice issues or things that don’t make a lot of sense reading the books as an adult. While there are definitely issues with any series, it’s always useful to remember why the books became so popular in the first place. The main characters in the series, especially Harry, Ron, and Hermione, might have flaws, but they are overall heroic characters who are trying to save the world from a dark wizard and his followers....

In the Harry Potter books, Azkaban embodies an exaggerated image of a cruel and isolated place, shrouded in darkness and mystery. Rowling also adds a powerful creative flair with the introduction of Dementors - soulless, evil beings who serve as Azkaban’s guards and feed on the prisoner’s soul. However, while it does bring that “cool factor,” many fans will agree that Azkaban is not the most realistically conceptualized prison. Here are some of the biggest logical inconsistencies and unanswered questions surrounding this horrid place....

Without a doubt, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is one of the most complex, interesting and compassionate characters ever written. One of the stars of the Harry Potter series written by J.K. Rowling, Dumbledore is the source of so much wisdom that his quotes are utilized daily, from his advice about socks to the fact that “it takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends....

Has Sam Wilson aka Falcon (Anthony Mackie) used super soldier serum to become Captain America in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier? Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is moving forward with Sam replacing Steve Rogers as Captain America. This transition will take place during Marvel Studios’ first Disney+ show and was teased in the recently released footage. In just a short amount of time, the direction of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier has already started to take shape....

When Apple started using new photos on the boxes of the 10.5-inch iPad Pro, we managed to source the four images before they were included on the units when they were shipped. But there are a bunch more great images pre-loaded on the store demo models, and you can now download them all … A Redditor AirDropped them to himself at the Apple Store and posted them online. He initially used Imgur, but it was quickly pointed out that the site reduces the resolution of images, so they have now been re-uploaded to WeTransfer in full 5K....

The internet’s amusing reaction to Will Smith’s Genie reveal from Disney’s Aladdin remake continues, as new fan art combines him with Marvel’s Thanos. If there’s one problem the immediacy of social media has created that didn’t really exist before for filmmakers, it’s the ability for consumers to not only offer immediate opinions during every step of a film’s creative and marketing processes, but also turn what starts as simply a noticeable negative reaction into a full-fledged online crusade in record time....