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Fill in the blank letters of these magical words and then, once you've figured them out, drag your cursor across the letters on the board.

How quickly can you find them all? As this is an extra-scary wordsearch, you only have one chance to get them right! We do enjoy a trick more than a treat sometimes... 

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Revolting reads: the most nauseating moments from the Harry Potter series

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*In honour of Hallowe’en treats, the Scourgify Scale has three levels based on the Skiving Snackboxes created by the masters of mayhem, Fred and George Weasley:*
- Fainting Fancy *for the lowest level of yuck*
- Nosebleed Nougat *for Flesh-Eating Slug levels of repellent*
- Puking Pastille *for the pass me the slug-bucket moments.*



### Slug vomit

*Scourgify Scale – Puking Pastille*

>'The Gryffindors were gathered around Ron, who kept belching large, glistening slugs. Nobody seemed to want to touch him.’
><br>*Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets*  

And who’d blame them? Nothing says Hallowe’en horror more than slug slime mixed with Ron Weasley’s vomit, right? Poor Ron was only trying to curse Draco Malfoy for calling Hermione a Mudblood. If only the spell hadn’t backfired... we would have enjoyed Malfoy vomiting slugs over the cups in the trophy room far more than watching Ron suffer. 

### Bubotuber pus 

*Scourgify Scale – Nosebleed Nougat*

On to greenhouse three with Professor Sprout and ‘the ugliest plants Harry had ever seen’. Although apparently Bubotubers look ‘less like plants than thick black giant slugs protruding vertically out of the soil’ – delightful. But in our assessment of all things vomit-worthy, we’re more interested in the Bubotuber pus that the plants themselves. Not unlike the pimples that the plant goo is a remedy for, Harry and his classmates had to squeeze a ‘thick yellowish green liquid’ from the slug-like swellings on the plant and collect it in bottles. It might have been higher on our Scourgify Scale if squeezing the plants didn’t sound quite so satisfying.
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### Harry’s boneless arm

*Scourgify Scale – Fainting Fancy* 

Do you remember when all Harry had to worry about was his teacher removing the bones in his arm? Those were the days, eh? It makes our own arms feel tingly just thinking about how Harry's was described as a ‘thick, flesh-coloured rubber glove’. Apart from a boneless arm sounding more like a  grotesque Hallowe’en costume idea than a Quidditch injury, Madam Pomfrey also had to give Harry Skele-Gro to regrow the bones. And we don’t think it tasted like pumpkin juice.
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### Stinksap

*Scourgify Scale – Nosebleed Nougat*

Neville’s Mimbulus mimbletonia caused an almighty scene on the Hogwarts Express. The little grey cactus might have looked fairly harmless – even though it was covered in boils –but it seriously damaged Harry’s chances with Cho Chang when Neville activated its defence mechanism. 

>‘Liquid squirted from every boil on the plant; thick, stinking, dark green jets of it.’ 
><br>*Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix*

Harry received a faceful of the disgusting Stinksap – it even got in his mouth –just as the Ravenclaw heart-throb opened the door of the carriage compartment to say hello. Don’t worry, Harry, it could have been worse. Wait... could it?

### Deathday Party food

*Scourgify Scale – Fainting Fancy*

When we say party food, perhaps your mind fills with images of cocktail sausages on sticks, party rings, homemade chocolate bunsand a beautifully iced birthday cake? Hold your Hippogriffs: there ain’t no party like a Deathday Party. The food at Sir Nicholas de Mimsy - Porpington’s 500th death anniversary most definitely makes it onto this nauseating list. Delights included cakes burned charcoal black, a great maggoty haggis, mouldy cheese and a grey cake shaped like a tombstone. Not much of a spread, but then Nearly Headless Nick did have his head – almost – chopped off on Hallowe’en.
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### Bertie Bott’s Every-Flavour Beans

*Scourgify Scale – Nosebleed Nougat*

When it comes to Wizarding World confectionary, there are quite a few unpleasant choices. Blood-flavoured lollipops meant for vampires, Cockroach Clusters and Puking Pastilles. So why choose Bertie Bott’s Every-Flavour Beans? Let’s just think about them for a second. Every flavour. That’s *every* flavour. There’s no way raspberry or lemon would make it onto this unpleasant list, but just think about the flavours Dumbledore shared with us: a vomit-flavoured bean in his youth; earwax in Harry’s first year. What other flavours could be out there? We shudder to think. Like Dumbledore, we think we’ve lost our liking for them, too.
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### Troll bogeys

*Scourgify Scale – Puking Pastille*

A twelve-foot mountain troll could probably make it onto this list without the bogeys. But we are all about the revolting this Hallowe’en, and how do you make an encounter with a stinking, club-wielding giant worse? You shove a brown stick up its nostrils and then get covered in lumpy, grey troll bogeys, of course! At least Harry had the sense to wipe his wand on the troll’s own trousers rather than his robes – although not quite enough sense not to hang from the troll’s neck in the first place. 
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### Polyjuice Potion

*Scourgify Scale – Nosebleed Nougat* 

We’re not saying Polyjuice Potion isn’t useful – it helped Harry, Ron and Hermione on their way to solving many a mystery. But despite its ability to change you into someone else for a while, drinking the potion itself sounds less tempting than swigging Skele-Gro. The basic ingredients alone make us want to retch: Lacewing flies, leeches, Boomslang skin, powdered horn of a Bicorn just to name a few. Who’d want to swallow any of those ingredients on their own? Let alone after they’ve all been mixed together in a cauldron and left to stew for a month. But that isn’t the worst part of Polyjuice Potion – it also requires a bit of whoever you want to change into. Hermione settles on hair rather than toenails but still... pretty disgusting all round.
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### Brains from the Department of Mysteries 

*Scourgify Scale – Puking Pastille*

>‘Glimmering eerily, they drifted in and out of sight in the depths of the green liquid, looking something like slimy cauliflowers.’
><br>*Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix*

Creepy and revolting, just the sight of the green tank displaying lazily drifting brains has to be very high up on our Scourgify scale. Add to this the fact the brains have tentacles (giant squid – you’ve got competition), and when Ron summons one it tries to suffocate him... we think the brains are a nasty Hallowe’en surprise we could definitely live without.

Happy Hurl-owe’en!

What the Forbidden Forest reveals about Harry Potter characters

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## Hagrid

For Hagrid, Keeper of Keys and Grounds, the Forbidden Forest was practically his back garden. His fascination with its creatures showed him to be an eternally curious man with a need to champion the underdog.

The first time we saw Hagrid in the Forbidden Forest he was looking to rescue a unicorn. He clearly spent a lot of time there – it was where he hid his brother Grawp, after all, and as Care of Magical Creatures teacher, he usually used the forest as a good place to find beasts to teach his class about.

And then there was Aragog, Hagrid’s childhood friend who just so happened to be a giant, hairy, talking spider. That’s the Aragog who caused Hagrid’s expulsion from Hogwarts and offered Ron and Harry as lunch to his children, of course. Hagrid sure knew how to pick ’em.

We got an insight into why Hagrid was drawn to frightening creatures in *Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire*, when the truth about his giantess mother emerged and he went into hiding. Dumbledore wouldn’t accept his resignation, refusing to judge Hagrid on his parentage – much like Hagrid, who refused to judge any creature on their frightening appearance.

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## Draco Malfoy

The Forbidden Forest showed Malfoy for what he was: a classic school bully, all sneering bravado and no actual bravery. Well, not in *Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone*, anyway; then, he was a terrified first-year who tried to get out of entering the forest by calling it ‘servant stuff’, and implying that his father wouldn’t stand for such a punishment.

Malfoy often relied on his family name to intimidate others, as Hagrid found out in *Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban*, when Malfoy’s overreaction to a Hippogriff skirmish led to a death sentence for Buckbeak. Neville Longbottom was another particular target. In *Philosopher’s Stone* Malfoy deliberately frightened Neville in the Forbidden Forest, causing Hagrid to partner Malfoy up with Harry instead.

It was all a bluff, though. When Harry and Malfoy came face to face with a certain someone drinking the blood of a unicorn, it was Malfoy who ran. He didn’t even have the presence of mind of Neville, who at least remembered Hagrid’s instruction to send up red sparks.

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## Ron

If Malfoy was all bravado and no bravery, then Ron was the exact opposite. In *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets* Ron revealed he was frightened of spiders.

‘You wouldn’t like them either if you’d been holding your bear and suddenly it had too many legs…’ he says to Hermione, about the time Fred turned his teddy bear into a giant spider.

He might have been terrified, but when Hermione was attacked by the creature lurking in the Chamber of Secrets and the only way of getting answers was to follow the spiders, Ron put his fears aside. He and Harry followed those spiders to the Forbidden Forest where they came face to face with Aragog and his many hungry children.

Ron’s terror when he saw Aragog was obvious. He never tried to hide his fear, but he also never hid behind it. Ron had his faults, but he was honest and brave and those are traits that served him well, inside and outside the Forbidden Forest.

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## Hermione

In their first year Hermione helped Harry get the Philosopher’s Stone by solving Snape’s Potions puzzle, for which she was rewarded 50 points. Dumbledore praised her ‘use of cool logic in the face of fire’.

It’s a statement that sums up a lot about Hermione. Her quick thinking got Harry and Ron out of many a fix, and in *Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix* she really held her nerve. When the members of Dumbledore’s Army were caught in Umbridge’s office, Umbridge prepared to use the Cruciatus Curse to force Harry to reveal what they were doing. Hermione stopped Umbridge by pretending they were hiding a weapon in the Forbidden Forest, tricking her into following them.

In the Forest, Hermione attracted the attention of the centaurs, counting on Umbridge to reveal her worst prejudices. Umbridge obliged, calling the centaurs ‘filthy half-breeds’. Hermione didn’t quite get it right, as the centaurs resented her presumption, but she still managed to get out of a tricky situation.

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Umbridge, Harry and Hermione in the Forbidden Forest.

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## Harry

Harry’s experiences in the Forbidden Forest were mostly chaotic and they often had some connection to Voldemort, as he learnt more about his destiny and the people around him.

But in *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows* – at the close – Harry experienced a calmer moment in the Forest. He whispered those words to the Snitch left to him by Dumbledore, and as it opened to reveal the Resurrection Stone he saw his family, waiting to accompany him as he offered his life to Voldemort.

The Forbidden Forest was often dark and frightening but in the end, it was not the place in which Voldemort killed Harry. It was the place where Harry finally understood, the place where he saw his loved ones, and the place where he came back.

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Harry, accompanied by the spirits of his dead family and friends, approaches Lord Voldemort prepared to die.

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Want to watch [Claudia Kim and Dakota Fanning reading Chapter Fifteen, 'The Forbidden Forest' again? You can find it here](https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-forbidden-forest). 

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The best autumnal passages in the Harry Potter books

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It wouldn’t be autumn in Britain without some rain! The combination of the raindrops on the windows and the giant orange pumpkins feels very autumnal to us.

Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flowerbeds turned into muddy streams and Hagrid’s pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds.

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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One of the highlights of autumn has to be Hallowe’en! And the wizarding world certainly knows how to make this spooky holiday spectacular. We would have loved to have attended this feast…

‘Yeah, maybe,’ said Harry, as they reached the Entrance Hall and crossed into the Great Hall. It had been decorated with hundreds and hundreds of candle-filled pumpkins, a cloud of fluttering live bats and many flaming orange streamers, which were swimming lazily across the stormy ceiling like brilliant watersnakes.

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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There’s nothing quite like making the most of a sunny day in autumn. It can make anything feel better… even a mountain of homework.

Harry felt happier for the rest of the weekend than he had done all term. He and Ron spent much of Sunday catching up with all their homework again, and although this could hardly be called fun, the last burst of autumn sunshine persisted, so rather than sitting hunched over tables in the common room they took their work outside and lounged in the shade of a large beech tree on the edge of the lake. Hermione, who of course was up to date with all her work, brought more wool outside with her and bewitched her knitting needles so that they flashed and clicked in midair beside her, producing more hats and scarves.

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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While being caught in incredibly heavy rain is never fun, we reckon being safely ensconced on the Hogwarts Express as it hammers it down would feel rather warm and cosy.

The rain became heavier and heavier as the train moved further north. The sky was so dark and the windows so steamy that the lanterns were lit by midday. The lunch trolley came rattling along the corridor, and Harry bought a large stack of Cauldron Cakes for them to share.

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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The Gryffindor common room is just built for autumn evenings. With the red and gold colour scheme, the comfy armchairs and the roaring fire to warm you up – it’s the perfect spot to spend those chilly evenings.

The Gryffindor common room looked as welcoming as ever, a cosy circular tower room full of dilapidated squashy armchairs and rickety old tables. A fire was crackling merrily in the grate and a few people were warming their hands by it before going up to their dormitories

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Another perfect rainy moment! This would be such a cosy way to spend an afternoon – we’d even put with the bickering about S.P.E.W. if it meant we were warm and toasty.

A light rain had started to fall by mid-afternoon; it was very cosy sitting by the fire, listening to the gentle patter of the drops on the window, watching Hagrid darning his socks and arguing with Hermione about house-elves – for he flatly refused to join S.P.E.W. when she showed him her badges.

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What could be better than having perfect autumn weather, when waving the next generation of witches and wizards off at King’s Cross Station, to start (or continue) their own adventure at Hogwarts…

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first of September was crisp and golden as an apple, and as the little family bobbed across the rumbling road towards the great, sooty station, the fumes of car exhausts and the breath of pedestrians sparkled like cobwebs in the cold air.

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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It's time to play True or False: McGonagall edition

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The Empire State Building lights up to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

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The Empire State Building lit up in the four Hogwarts house colours.

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On 27th September, Harry Potter fans were in for a treat when the world-famous Empire State Building was lit up in Gryffindor red, Slytherin green, Ravenclaw blue and Hufflepuff yellow to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Scholastic publishing *Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone* in the U.S – the first of seven in the bestselling book series of all time.

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The Empire State Building lit up with the four Hogwarts house colours.

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As the sun set, the world-famous Tower Lights lit up with fans both in and outside of New York able to celebrate with the Empire State Building live cam. For those in New York, Scholastic in collaboration with the Empire State Building and Wizarding World franchise partners, Harry Potter New York and Harry Potter: The Exhibition, had something special for fans up on the 86th Floor Observation Deck.

There they found a pop-up cart handing out free copies of the anniversary edition of *Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone* and Butterbeer (courtesy of Harry Potter New York).

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Two boys and a woman look at the copies of Sorcerer's Stone on the pop-up cart.

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A copy of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on the Observation Deck of the Empire State Building

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Guests were also encouraged to get into the spirit of things by dressing to impress in their finest Hogwarts house attire. There were some excellent efforts. Firstly, there were these stylish Gryffindors…

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A girl wearing Gryffindor robes holding a Butterbeer and wand

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A woman wearing Gryffindor robes and holding a Butterbeer

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And possibly the tiniest Harry Potter fan we have seen! What an excellent Harry costume…

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A man carrying a sleeping baby in a baby carrier. The baby is dressed up as Harry Potter with his scar.

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Many guests also enjoyed the iconic view from the Observation Deck – with their copies of *Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone* of course.

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People gathered on the observation deck of the Empire State Building holding copies of Sorcerer's Stone

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Want to see more magical moments atop the Empire State Building? Check out the video below…

Celebrating 25 years of Harry Potter at the Empire State Building

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This fantastic celebration of a book that has created a new generation of readers and sold 600 million copies worldwide, was only part of Scholastic’s 25th anniversary campaign. You can find out more information about all the fun things they have planned [here](https://www.wizardingworld.com/news/scholastic-celebrates-25-years-of-harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone). 

Watch: Evanna Lynch hosts first-ever Harry Potter Book Day virtual lesson 

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Bloomsbury Children’s Books, [Twinkl](https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/1mtzik) and Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter have banded together for an extremely unique study session indeed, where teachers and students alike will get to tune in to a virtual lesson, hosted by the Wizarding World’s very own Evanna Lynch!

__Update: you can now watch the video right here!__

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Fans can watch as Evanna takes us through different iconic film sets from the Harry Potter films at [Warner Bros. Studio Tour London](https://www.wizardingworld.com/discover/experiences/warner-bros-studio-tour-london-the-making-of-harry-potter), including the magnificent Great Hall and the charming Diagon Alley. There, she’ll lead a creative-writing story starter, using extracts from *Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone* to help students begin their lesson in style.

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Later on in the session, Evanna will be joined by a few other Wizarding World family members, such as a draw-along with artist Jonny Duddle, who has brought the Harry Potter books to life with his beautiful illustrations.

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Then it’s time for something more physical, with Evanna teaming up with wand choreographer Paul Harris for a spell-casting tutorial to get everybody on their feet. We wonder how much Evanna remembers from her days on set! Is spell-casting like riding a bike?

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Evanna spoke of her delight to teach this one-of-a-kind class, which is made extra-special by the fact both of her own parents are teachers too. 

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I fell in love with the Harry Potter books when I was 8, and my appreciation for the magical world and its complex, wonderful characters has only deepened as I’ve grown older and revisited them again and again,’ she said.

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‘It would be impossible to quantify the impact these books have had on my life, but suffice to say they made me a lifelong reader and a writer, and that the characters continue to inspire me as an adult. As the daughter of two teachers, I love the idea of schools spreading the magic of these books to a new generation of children. I’m delighted to present this special lesson and hope it inspires them to pick up a pen, a book – or even a wand.’

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The 40-minute online event, designed for 7-11 year olds, will be made freely available from the 28th September, in advance of Harry Potter Book Day, to help teachers, tutors, home educators and parents make the event as magical as possible. It will be suitable for any English-language speaking school, and will be available via [Twinkl’s website](https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/1mtzik).

Twinkl, an education company that offers many resources to schools and educators in over 200 regions, will also be provided loads of supporting resources. 

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The event is part of Harry Potter Book Day, which takes place Thursday 12th October this year. Previously known as Harry Potter Book Night, this annual festivity has since changed its name to accommodate fans all across the globe celebrating the wizarding world across different time zones. Fitting, then, that this year’s theme is __MAGICAL PLACES__, encouraging fans of all ages to bring the locations of the wizarding world into their libraries, book shops, schools and homes. And you can learn all about how exactly to do it on Bloomsbury’s website here.

The resource will remain available after Harry Potter Book Day so don’t worry if you’re a teacher trying to sort out the perfect class schedule - you’ve plenty of time and won’t even need a [Time-Turner!](/fact-file/objects/time-turner)

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And that’s not all! Don’t forget that Bloomsbury’s exciting upcoming Harry Potter compendium, [The Harry Potter Wizarding Almanac](https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/harry-potter-wizarding-almanac-9781526666796/), will launch on 10th October, so you can get stuck in just before Harry Potter Book Day kicks off. And if you haven’t seen it yet, you can explore some of the book’s gorgeously illustrated maps of the Hogwarts grounds on our [Starting Harry Potter hub right now.](https://www.startingharrypotter.com/explore/almanac)

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Evanna’s special lesson is available now on [twinkl.co.uk](https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/1mtzik) for Harry Potter Book Day.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child to put on Hallowe’en nights in New York

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Ah, spooky season! We can practically taste the pumpkin spice as we type. And down in New York, the award-winning production of *Harry Potter and the Cursed Child* is putting on five special Hallowe’en themed evenings to celebrate, running every Tuesday across October. 

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## October 3rd: A Dark Mark takeover 

For the first of *Cursed Child* New York’s special evenings, you may find yourself surrounded by Death Eaters! Inconvenient! But don’t worry – Lord Voldemort hasn’t been recruiting. The Lyric Theatre are simply offering audience members temporary Dark Mark tattoos, alongside a special Dark Mark window card, signed by the cast. 

## October 10th: Bewitching beverages

You thought Butterbeer was delicious, but tonight, *Cursed Child* are serving up another lovely libation. For this performance, fans will get to sip on free samples of the non-alcoholic specialty autumnal beverage. This evening looks to be far more about treats than tricks in other ways too – with Hershey’s Chocolate World offering up a raffle in Times Square, alongside free seasonal treats for ticket-holders, courtesy of Chip City. 

## October 17th: Ghost stories and Hallowe’en pins 

Who doesn’t love a spooky ghost story this time of year? For attendees of this performance, you’ll be entertained by theatre historian Tim Dolan of Broadway Up Close, who will be enrapturing the Lyric with a few terrifying tales before the show. Brittany Zeinstra, who plays Moaning Myrtle in the New York production, will also be around to help make things extra spirited. 

No offence to Nearly Headless Nick, but this sounds a bit better than the mouldy cheese from his Deathday Party, doesn’t it?

There will also be an opportunity to discover a limited-edition *Harry Potter and the Cursed Child* pin, especially created for Hallowe’en 2023. You’ll be practically floating with glee if you get your hands on one of these. 

## October 24th: A mind-bending panel 

The special effects in *Harry Potter and the Cursed Child* are some of those magical in Broadway, and to celebrate, this evening’s themed event will feature a demonstration of mind-bending illusions for the first 100 people in line for tonight’s production. A special gift will be given out post-show for all patrons too!

## October 31st: Costume contests and pumpkins with pomp  

And of course, the big night itself! Hallowe’en evening at *Harry Potter and the Cursed Child* is set to be a spooktacular (yep, we said it) extravaganza, with ticket-holders invited to an epic Harry Potter costume contest. The top 10 costumes will feature on the *Cursed Child* social channels – and there’ll even be a special photo op set up at the venue to make your costumes really shine. 

And it wouldn’t be Hallowe’en without a couple of pumpkins, would it? Professionally-carved pumpkins from Maniac Pumpkin Carvers will be on display in the lobby, so do make sure to take a few snaps.

You can learn about [Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’s Hallowe’en evenings on the official website.](https://broadway.harrypottertheplay.com/)