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Whatever holiday you celebrate in December, it comes with a lot of pressure. If you get that special someone the wrong gift, watch out. Things can get pretty ugly. That’s particularly true for pop-culture fans. They know what they want, and they probably have most of it already. Perhaps you know someone like this. Perhaps you are someone like this. (Perhaps I am someone like this.)

Warner Bros. is seriously banking on a resurgence of Harry Potter fever. At a fan event in London on Thursday, J.K. Rowling herself confirmed that Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which hasn’t even come out in theaters yet, will be a five-film franchise.

Thursday brought some big news for Harry Potter fans, namely that a five new movies are on the way. During a Global Fan Event for ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,’ J.K. Rowling announced that the Harry Potter prequel spinoff will be followed by four sequels, and that she’s already completed the script for the second film. The event featured a live-streamed panel with the movie’s cast, then afterwards showed the audience an exclusive sneak peek of the new movie.

Amid meme-induced confusion, 'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling clarifies that Harambe the gorilla is not a real Patronus result on Pottermore.

Learn more about Newt Scamander — and meet some of the 'Fantastic Beasts' — in this magical new featurette for the film.

22-year-old Luis Vielma worked as an attendant and attractions opener at the Harry Potter and The Forbidden Journey ride.

Alan Rickman, the tremendously talented British actor behind such iconic roles as Hans Gruber in Die Hard and Professor Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films, has died at the age of 69 following a bout with cancer.

This fan theory literally gives the 'Deathly Hallows' a whole new meaning.

Potterheads, your Halloween just got a major upgrade! Pottermore.com just announced that J.K. Rowling will release a new 'Harry Potter' story on Halloween. The subject? Dolores Umbridge!

The boy who lived continues to live on. Two years after the last 'Harry Potter' movie hit theaters (and six years after 'Deathly Hallows' was published), author J.K. Rowling is working on a Potter prequel that would follow a young Harry as an orphan, before his time at Hogwarts.

Ah, St. Patrick's Day. That glorious day where not wearing green could get you heckled or pinched, and alcoholism is celebrated rather than frowned upon. To celebrate (in ways that don't include dying beer green or expanding our livers), we put our collective noggins together and came up with the celebrities we'd most like to party with.

Unbeknownst to me (until I watched this video), there is a subculture of Harry Potter fans out there who have taken it upon themselves to write their own stories using characters from the insanely popular book and movie franchise. These stories fall into a variety of genres including humor, horror, teen angst, and even romance, as Harry himself, actor Daniel Radcliffe learned during a recent appea