When I was in high school, I experienced a canon event in every young nerd’s life: I was obsessively engaging with a piece of pop culture and found myself thinking, “Wait … why aren’t these characters ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Writers of popular stories based on “Harry Potter” are pulling their work offline after discovering readers selling them on Etsy. It could kill the community ...

Actors Emma Watson (L) Maggie Smith (M) and Daniel Radcliffe (R) on the set of the film "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." Harry Potter is one of the most popular subjects of fanfiction. The ...