Museum deploys magical beasts to conjure up real life understanding

Museum deploys magical beasts to conjure up real life understanding

A new show at Melbourne Museum melds the wonder of the real with the make-believe and explores the relationship between the two.

  • byKerrie O'Brien

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Hogwarts Legacy:Why I won’t be playing the new Harry Potter game

Hogwarts Legacy:Why I won’t be playing the new Harry Potter game

Regardless of the game’s content,it’s unavoidably tied to an author who has gained international notoriety as an anti-trans figure.

  • byTim Biggs
New Harry Potter game sparks boycott,divides fans over trans-inclusion

New Harry Potter game sparks boycott,divides fans over trans-inclusion

Hogwarts Legacy has had strong reviews,but the way its developers have responded to JK Rowling’s controversial comments on the trans community has sparked controversy.

  • byKarl Quinn
‘A gifted individual with no ego’:From Perth to London’s West End with Leslie Phillips

‘A gifted individual with no ego’:From Perth to London’s West End with Leslie Phillips

As the entertainment world paid tribute to British stage and screen legend Leslie Phillips,the only West Australian to have acted with Phillips in London’s West End paid her respects too.

  • byKaralee Katsambanis
‘An incredible talent’:Actor Robbie Coltrane,Harry Potter’s Hagrid,dies at 72

‘An incredible talent’:Actor Robbie Coltrane,Harry Potter’s Hagrid,dies at 72

The baby-faced comedian and character actor whose hundreds of roles included a crime-solving psychologist and a gentle half-giant is being remembered.

‘We’ve lost a genius’:British author of Wolf Hall saga Hilary Mantel dies
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‘We’ve lost a genius’:British author of Wolf Hall saga Hilary Mantel dies

The Booker Prize-winning author died “suddenly yet peacefully” aged 70,according to her publisher.

  • byLachlan Abbott
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Choose between motherhood and a career? No thanks,says pregnant Harry Potter star

Choose between motherhood and a career? No thanks,says pregnant Harry Potter star

The idea that you must choose between parenthood and acting is dispelled by Lucy Goleby,who plays Ginny Potter in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

  • byKerrie O'Brien
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe cuts ties with Melbourne’s property market

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe cuts ties with Melbourne’s property market

Take the proceeds straight to Gringotts:Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe used this apartment as a base when he was filming,but offloaded it in a $2 million-plus deal.

  • byElizabeth Redman
That old Lego at home? It’s worth something – just ask Sean

That old Lego at home? It’s worth something – just ask Sean

Sean McConville left a high-flying corporate job to open a unique store specialising in second-hand and retired Lego,where anyone is welcome to haul in their old bricks.

  • bySophie Aubrey
Quidditch becomes quadball as sport distances itself from author JK Rowling

Quidditch becomes quadball as sport distances itself from author JK Rowling

The sport inspired by the wizarding game in the Harry Potter books has changed its name in part due to author J.K. Rowling’s views on transgender issues.

  • byMarie-Louise Gumuchian
Harry Potter’s latest trick turns a theatrical marathon into a sprint

Harry Potter’s latest trick turns a theatrical marathon into a sprint

The reimagined production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child puts the Melbourne cast through its paces.

  • byNick Miller