Let's be real, seven years at Hogwarts just isn't enough. I mean those kids need to know a little more than just how to cast a few spells, right? I could totally get down to Rowling penning a few more books on Harry Potter: The College Years. Saved By the Bell did it, Boy Meets World did it, pretty much every other sitcom centered on high school life did it. So why not, Potter kids?
JK, I'll even help you out a little so you can hit the ground running with this one. According to the sorting hat in my head, here's where you can expect to see all of our favorite HP characters heading off to earn their degrees.
Click on the gallery button to see where we sent the Hogwarts kids to college!
GEORGE CLOONEY split with his stunning girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis last month, proving once again he's hard to pin down.
The Italian was the latest in a long line of beautiful women who he has loved and left, including French nursery teacher Celine Balitran, British model Lisa Snowdon and American waitress Sarah Lawson.
As it turns out, James McAvoy will star in "Slumdog Millionaire" director Danny Boyle's next film, "Trance," but it won't be in place of his "X-Men: First Class" co-star/rival Michael Fassbender. No, it looks like the honor of replacing Magneto may go to Oscar-winner Colin Firth.
According to TwitchFilm.com, due to scheduling conflicts, Fassbender has had to pull out of the British art-heist film about a would be thief who hits his head and gets amnesia. He seemed to be slated to play Aiden, a supporting role, but instead, Boyle wants Firth to take the job. Then, for the supporting role of Elizabeth, TwitchFilm reports that Boyle wants Johansson.
Maria Shriver's thoughts are worth a pretty penny.
The long-suffering wife of philandering Arnold Schwarzenegger could command $15 million for a tell-all book on her life with the actor-turned-California governor.
Shriver, who filed for divorce last Friday, is the most sought-after author at the moment, a top publishing exec tells Radar Online.
Real Housewives of New York star Sonja Morgan can't exactly qualify as a housewife if she doesn't have a husband or a house.
The bankrupt reality vixen, who is locked in a bitter court battle with her 80-year-old ex-husband, John Adams Morgan, over a $3 million divorce settlement, may be forced to sell off her gorgeous $6 million New York City townhouse in order to gain some cash, a source tells E! News.
The Natural Resources Defense Council released its annual beach water quality report yesterday and found water at a total of 134 beaches in the five boroughs and its surrounding areas had bacteria levels that exceeded state health standards.
Nationally, the report found the number of beach closings and advisories was at the second-highest level in the 18 years that the report has been issued.
GENEVA -- The World Trade Organization ruled Tuesday that China was unfairly protecting its domestic manufacturers by limiting the export of nine raw materials that are used widely in steel, aluminum and chemical industries.
A WTO panel sided with the United States, European Union and Mexico, which had each filed complaints saying China was driving up the prices they pay for raw materials such as coke, bauxite and zinc by setting export duties and quotas on them.
PHOENIX — Federal prison officials must temporarily stop forcing anti-psychotic drugs on the man accused of wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a deadly shooting rampage, an appeals court has ruled.
The brief order from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals came late Friday after Jared Lee Loughner's attorneys appealed a ruling allowing his medication to continue.
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A Florida jury reached a verdict Tuesday in the murder trial of Casey Anthony, who is accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee.
Judge Belvin Perry says the verdict will be read at 2:15 p.m. EDT.
You hear the horror stories all the time -- creepy crawlies that find their way into people's ears.
There were even reports last week of a 12-year-old Colorado boy who woke up crying because a moth had crawled into his ear. He had to go to the hospital emergency room, where doctors tried to drown the moth to kill it, to no avail. They ended up removing the insect with tweezers -- where it came out alive, 9News reported.
But why are the nooks and crannies in our faces so attractive to bugs, anyway?
Shia LaBeouf has been making the news lately while on the circuit promoting his latest robot film and fucking it up entirely. In recent months, he's admitted that he kind of thinks his director, Michael Bay, is sexist, and related the tale of how he hooked up with Megan Fox while she was involved with her current husband. Keep in mind, this is during an interview where a grinning simpleton is lobbing softball questions about how great it must be working with these professionals. Acing these interviews is the easiest thing in the world, and now said world has to wonder, is this guy an idiot?
The new Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial in Washington, D.C. is not without controversy.
The sculpture, located between the Jefferson and Lincoln memories, stands 30 feet tall -- 11 feet taller than its Presidential neighbors and was created by Chinese sculptor Lei Yixin, a choice that has drawn out critics from the sculpting community who question the choice to go outside the U.S. for the work.
Ed Dwight, a sculptor who'd been on the project earlier, claims that the late King would be insulted to hear that a sculptor from a Communist country would be working on his likeness.
RACINE, WI -- The public school system in this city hugging the shore of Lake Michigan is running low on money and options for educating its 21,000 students as federal stimulus cash dries up.
Anticipating this summer's end to the $10 million boost it received from the stimulus, Racine Unified held a referendum in April asking to replace some of the lost cash with local property tax dollars. Voters said no.
Facing its own budget troubles, Wisconsin is slashing more than $16 million in state funding for the district, and a state-imposed voucher system could drain even more money if parents pull students out of the district.
When Bain & Co. issued its first report on the state of Indian philanthropy a year ago, there was widespread handwringing among the rich in this country. There, clearly documented, was the fact that wealthy Indians give a lot less to charity than their American or British counterparts.
The 24-year-old, who jumped all the way up to the world No. 1 ranking, celebrated with the trophy and danced on stage as the local band performed.
"This is absolutely unbelievable and I owe all of you eternal gratitude for this reception," he said, before showing off his dance moves. "The time has come to bare all my emotions to you and all I can say is that you are the best in the world because only Serbian fans can throw a party like this."
Aspen Ideas Festival hosted a handful of social media gurus that are focused on socially beneficial work to talk about the new technology and its implications for doing socially-minded work that benefits humanity.
The panel consists of social media all-stars: Pete Cashmore (CEO and founder of Mashable), Chris Hughes (founder of Jumo, former co-founder at Facebook) and Matt Flannery (founder of Kiva.org).
The panel of social media gurus joined Lance Armstrong, world-renown cyclist and founder of Livestrong, along with Doug Ulman, President and CEO of Livestrong, an organization that greatly benefit from using social media to distribute its message.
A new paper, published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, argues for a more complex approach to mammography based on personal risk factors such as age, breast density, family history of breast cancer and even a woman's personal preference.
More than 750,000 public employees went on strike in the U.K. last week over proposed austerity measures that would affect their pension system. What does Labour Party leader Ed Miliband think about this? Well, he thinks that these strikes are wrong while negotiations are ongoing, but he also thinks the government has acted in a reckless and provocative manner. In short, he thinks it's time for both sides to put aside the rhetoric, get around the negotiating table, and ensure that these sorts of strikes never happen again.
ATLANTA -- Health officials say colon cancer deaths continue to drop across America – except in the state of Mississippi.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report Tuesday that echoes earlier findings of a national decline in colon cancer deaths. Death rates fell by as much as 5 and 6 percent in some New England states. Mississippi was the only state that saw no real decline.
Mervin the duck has been gone for some time now, but that doesn't make this tribute his owner put together any less endearing.
By chronicling him as a fluffy just-hatched baby to a grown up bird, this video is sure to pull on your heart strings... and maybe make you want to rescue a duck or two, as well.
Don't you love it when movies roll ahttp://www.seriouslunch.com/ few funny bloopers and outtakes alongside their credits? We sure do.
Well, who says you have to have a whole movie to enjoy a blooper reel? Not sketch group Serious Lunch, that's for sure. Check out this selection of unusable footage from the non-existent upcoming film "Blue Tide." It has everything you could want in a blooper reel: flubbed lines, a boom in the shot, fights and celebrity temper tantrums.
It kind of makes you wish "Blue Tide" was actually going to happen.
Officials are still investigating the cause of the rupture, initially speculating that a rapid current removed a protective layer of dirt from the pipeline, exposing the pipes to debris traveling down the river.
This basketball fan gives a whole new meaning to the term "thunder thighs."
One woman is so in love with Kevin Durant and the rest of the Oklahoma City Thunder that she decided to get giant tattoos of her favorite team emblazoned on her thighs.
While she's getting inked, the woman espouses her hatred for NBA referee Joe Crawford and her desire to become a Thunder towel girl, among other basketball topics.
Among Muammar Gaddafi's children, Saif Al-Islam was the one with the ambition to become Libya's reformer. The Libyan leader's second son lived and studied abroad and was the presentable face of the regime in the West. But when the insurrection broke out in February, this former engineer stunned the world in a televised speech in which he vowed to fighting against the rebels in Eastern Libya "'until the last man, the last woman, the last bullet."
Four months later, he's playing a key role in Tripoli. Because of NATO strikes, he's very secretive about his whereabouts but he says this last afternoon he went "swimming in the sea." Since June 20, he's facing an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC), like his father and the head of Libyan intelligence.
NEW YORK, July 5 (Reuters) - The hotel maid who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault sued the New York Post and five of its journalists for libel on Tuesday for reporting that she was a prostitute.
The 32-year-old Guinean immigrant accused the Post of publishing defamatory articles between July 2-4 "in an apparent desperate attempt to bolster its rapidly plunging sales."
GRODNO, Belarus — A journalist for one of Poland's leading newspapers has been convicted of libel for insulting Belarus' authoritarian president, but freed after being handed a suspended sentence.
The case of Andrzej Poczobut had drawn wide attention to the repressive regime of Alexander Lukashenko, especially from Poland. Belarus has a large ethnic Polish community.
If you're looking for the world's best breakdancers you won't find them in New York.
Although hip-hop is now a globalized culture, breakdancing -- also known as b-boying -- still brings to mind images of kids spinning on cardboard on Bronx sidewalks. But the art form's current epicenter is the other side of the world in Seoul, South Korea.
Aaron Sorkin has tackled the news business in "Sports Night," and he's tackled newsmakers, in "The West Wing." Now, he's combining the two, and already, has a real life story on his hands.
Sorkin, who is developing the behind-the-scenes cable news drama, "More As This Story Develops" for HBO, has cast Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in the show, marking the first major role for the Stanford and Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute graduate, the NY Post reports.
The casting marks a nice full-circle for the Kennedy clan in show business: Joseph Kennedy, the family patriarch, was a big studio bigwig back in his day, and then, following their political dynasty in the 60s, they became the subject of years of productions. Now, they'll be back in the world of making the films -- about subject matter other than themselves.
Bristol Palin tells the Arizona Republic that her mother, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, is "so smart."
"The biggest misconception about my mom that really irritates me is that she's dumb," she told the Grand Canyon State-based outlet ahead of a book signing for her memoir Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far. "She's so smart, and if anyone had a conversation with her they'd realize that ... she's a whiz."
During an appearance on ABC's "Good Morning America" last month, the younger Palin signaled she'd love to see her mother run for president in the next election cycle.
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Florida Democrats have seen their registration numbers swell in recent years, due in large part to a surge in Hispanic voters.
But despite their success on paper, state Democratic officials are struggling to connect with Hispanics, who have little representation among the party's Florida leadership. That could spell trouble not just for the future of the party in a state that's now nearly a quarter Latino, but also for President Barack Obama and U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, who will be counting on Latino support during tough races next year.
Last week word came that Top Chef was shooting in San Antonio, Texas -- Gail Simmons told a local blogger that "You tweeted this location and have compromised our ..." -- and now multiple sources are telling us that the next season of Top Chef is going to be Top Chef Texas.
BERLIN -- German police say authorities have intercepted a yacht carrying 1.1 tons of cocaine worth some euro42 million ($60 million) from the Caribbean to Europe.
Police said Tuesday that the bust was part of an investigation begun in 2009 with French and Spanish authorities.
BEIRUT -- Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to the regime shot dead 11 people Tuesday as residents erected roadblocks to prevent the advance of tanks ringing the city of Hama, which has become a flashpoint of the uprising against autocratic President Bashar Assad, activists said.
Hama residents burned tires, set up sand barriers and other obstacles to block the military, said Rami Abdul-Rahman, the London-based director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Chantix, the most popular smoking-cessation drug, could raise your risk of being hospitalized for a heart attack, according to a new review of studies.
In what could be the epitome of monkey business, a crested black macaque in a national park in Indonesia stole a photographer's camera and snapped some very memorable self-portraits, including this one of a bemused photographer looking on.
Obama administration officials believe that Pakistan's powerful spy agency ordered the killing of a Pakistani journalist who had written scathing reports about the infiltration of militants in the country's military, according to American officials.
ST. LOUIS — Albert Pujols could be back in the St. Louis Cardinals' lineup as early as Tuesday night, beating the initial timetable for his return from a broken left wrist by a month.
After taking indoor batting practice and fielding grounders outside on Monday, Pujols said there was no pain and added that he felt great. He's scheduled to be examined by team physician Dr. George Paletta on Tuesday morning.
We're all busy. Work, activities, errands, bills, responsibilities, friends -- sometimes it all turns into one big run-on sentence and we forget to take a minute to … breathe. Pause. Smile. Notice the small things. It can take just a moment to give everyday life a little perspective.
Today's video was shot at Central Park. Check back here every afternoon for a new "mOMent" to enjoy. Have a great idea for one? Send along a photo or video to moment@huffingtonpost.com!
A new study in the journal The Lancet shows that smokers who receive encouraging text messages through a program called "txt2stop" are twice as likely to quit the habit after six months, compared to smokers who didn't get any encouraging messages.
Out of 5,800 smokers in the study, more than 10 percent who received the encouraging messages quit, compared to just 4.9 percent of smokers who didn't receive the text messages.
GOP governors are raking in big bucks, amid some high-profile budget disputes that have tested new state chiefs such as Wisconsin's Scott Walker and Ohio's John Kasich.
After Andre Varciana of Swansea, Wales ate some chicken from KFC, he threw the bones across the road at some friends. A police officer in an unmarked car saw him and braked suddenly, resulting in four cars crashing into each other (see photos here). One car ended up on the roof of another and three people were slightly injured.
Silvio Berlusconi's Northern League allies planned to host a 200-person brown bear meat feast in the Italian Dolomite mountains, but instead were greeted by Italian police, who ordered the banquet to be shut down.
Bear hunting is banned in Italy, so the organizers purchased the 100-plus pounds of meat in Slovenia. However, food safety officers claimed that there was no import documentation for the meat.
Sexual assault charges against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn could be dropped in the next few weeks, according to sources close to the case who question the accusers credibility.
Prosecutors say that the Sofitel hotel maid accusing him of rape lied repeatedly, including about being gang raped on her asylum application. Further inconsistencies were pointed out in her story, including that in her grand jury testimony she claimed she waited in the hallway after her attack, but she has since told investigators she cleaned a nearby room after the attack.
Strauss-Kahn was released from house arrest last week and can now move freely. However, a newly filed lawsuit in France accuses Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape several years ago.
Are you reading an e-book about an illness you might have or religion or fringe politics? Someone might be looking over your shoulder. New York's and other states' book privacy laws were written for libraries and did not anticipate online services that can collect vast amounts of information about reading habits.
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