Yesterday saw the reveal of the title card for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the highly anticipated prequel to the Harry Potter films (see image at top). Now comes the official first look at the film in its headlining star Eddie Redmayne on the cover of the new issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine.

Check out the first look at Redmayne in the image gallery here below!

It’s September 1st, and many kids are getting ready to go back to school. It’s an emotional time, especially if your child is going somewhere new (my own baby starts NYU tomorrow!). But it’s not just the Muggles who are readying to hit the books; the young wizards of the Harry Potter universe will arrive today at Platform 9 3/4 at King’s Cross to embark on their journey to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for the start of the new school year.

This year is particularly notable as it marks the day that James Sirius Potter, the eldest child of Harry Potter and wife Ginny Weasley Potter, begins his first year at Hogwarts, according to author J.K. Rowling, who posted her best wishes to young James today via Twitter.

Author J.K. Rowling has released the first of 12 new Harry Potter stories (or rather, tidbits) today on the Pottermore website as part of their Pottermore Christmas Surprise” event.

Fans visiting the Pottermore site can unwrap a new story each day by solving a new riddle.

If you’re familiar with JK Rowling‘s wildly popular Harry Potter series, then you know that the three main characters are Harry Potter and his two friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. The trio is very close and has been through a lot together, so it’s not surprising that when the book series came to an end with the seventh book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, that two of the friends would eventually find love with each other.

But, were these two friends really meant to be? Should they have ended up together? In an interview excerpted by the UK’s Sunday Times, British author Rowling admitted that Hermione ended up with the wrong man.

Check out the details here below – and obviously Spoilers for the Harry Potter series.

J.K. Rowling‘s The Tales of Beedle the Bard is on sale today!

Tales is a supplement to the Harry Potter series and contains five fairy tale stories referred to in the final book of the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Only one of the wizarding stories — “The Tale of the Three Brothers” — was recounted in Deathly Hallows; the others are now available to the public for the first time.

There are two versions of Tales: the Standard hardcover for $7.14 and the limited-edition Collector’s version, which is being sold exclusively through Amazon for $100. For the later, a maximum of 100,000 will be sold.

Net proceeds from both editions will go to the Children’s High Level Group charity.