Months after Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling tweeted that Voldemort was “nowhere near as bad” as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, a new study suggests that Potter fans subconsciously ...

Plenty of Republicans may think Donald Trump is bad, but regular Harry Potter readers seem to see him basically as Voldemort. A new study found that people who have ready one or more of the "Harry ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Whether or not you’ve read the books or seen the movies, Harry Potter remains one of the most popular fictional series of all time. With the wizarding world continuing to be a ...

Hundreds of Harry Potter fanatics have turned this historic seaport, best known for its witches and their trials, into a makeshift college campus fit for a young wizard. In hotel ballrooms, professors ...

FARGO - Back in the summer of 2000, scores of young fans across the country were spellbound anticipating “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” then the latest in J. K. Rowling’s fantasy series, but ...

Researchers from universities in Italy published a paper in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology that explored how story reading can be a powerful strategy in improving human attitudes. Many of ...

It investigated "whether the novels of Harry Potter can be used as a tool for improving attitudes toward stigmatised groups", as all seven books "address important social, cultural, and psychological ...

Two economists have written a scholarly paper analyzing what they call the Potterian economic model from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels. They conclude that it's an "idealized" model containing ...