Step into the magical world of Harry Potter. Explore the characters, books, movies and everything in between. The wizarding world is your oyster!

You're going to need your broom (meaning keyboard and mouse) to navigate through this amazing journey. First stop is on the right, where you'll find the gallery of books by JK. Rowling that kickstarted the whole universe. After that, the Warner Bros. motion pictures that brought the same magic on the big screen over 20 years ago.

Have you ever wondered in which group were Fred Weasley and Angeline Johnson before getting married? Better yet, can you name all the members of the Order of the Phoenix during the first war against Vold.... hem, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named ?

Well in Harry Potter, as in every such saga spanning several years and a lot of different events, keeping track of everyone's group affiliations is really hard. They contain complex social relations that can span a huge periods of time.
To help you understand these affiliations, we give you the possibility to interactively explore a subset of the different Harry Potter association groups. You can check their members and the different associations in common between multiple characters. We did not include Hogwarts houses since they were already shown in a former visualisations. But if you miss Hogwarts already scroll back! You can always come back later.

Word Cloud per Book

How good do you think you are at Harry Potter Lore? Think you can manage to identify THE most important words that best describes one of the books? We already did it for you in an interactive word cloud. In the next display, you will see a list of the Harry Potter books. Hover over one of them to see the associated word cloud change interactively.

Test yourself. Let's how expert you are at the Harry Potter Lore. Given a word cloud, you should have a pretty good idea which book this word cloud is associated to.

Spell Launched per book

What defines magic in the Harry Potter World? The wand. Every witch and wizard should have one in order to learn how to control magic. This learning process comes along with a lot of different spells along the way. As you have previously seen, spells can be of any type and there is a huge amount of them. Ever wondered how many times and at which point in time in the saga each spell has been casted ? The next visualization will exactly answer this question.

You will be able to see a timeline with all the times each of 20 most used spells has been casted during the Harry Potter saga. By hovering the different circles, you will be able to see the context in which the spell has been casted. Furthermore, the books have been color-coded. To be more precise on which circle to hover, you can click and drag to zoom inside the timeline.

Sentiment analysis

What do you think is the most prominent emotion in the entire Harry Potter saga?

Is it happiness? Death as suggested by J.K. Rowling herself? One of the most famous theories is that each of the Harry Potter book is one of seven steps of grief. Can we feel it in the books? Does Machine Learning suggest that indeed the global emotion is going down over time?

To answer all of these questions, we present to you our most advanced visualization. It will let you explore different emotions impregnated in the series. This visualization is split into different parts. You have the possibility to select one movie and then a particular chapter of it. Simply hover over the image display, you'll find the different scenes of the selected movie and what part of the global emotion plot it represents. By clicking on one scene, you will access to the different characters starred in that scene and their dialogues will be displayed in the emotion anaylsis plot. Select and explore, see the emotions given by your favorite character or scene, this visualization has a lot of combinations and resources, go wild!