The story about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer you've heard is the Muggle version. Wizards tell it differently.

Padfoot suggests to Moony, Wormtail and Prongs that they should form a band and perform at The Three Broomsticks. Based on the Grimm brothers' fairy tale The Bremen Town Musicians.

Fleur Delacour and Bill Weasley were having ice cream at Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour when an incident with a hag buying gingerbread biscuits caused Fleur to show a side of herself Bill hadn't seen before.

In his shelter in the North, Igor Karkaroff hears news from Great Britain: Minister Fudge has confirmed the news of Voldemort's return.

On the day Lily Evans buys her first Hogwarts schoolbooks and her wand, her parents feel proud and delighted. Her sister doesn't.

On the evening of Voldemort's defeat, she was enjoying a romantic candlelit dinner with Stubby Boardman, lead singer of the Hobgoblins. Doris Purkiss will never forget that evening. But she will never fully remember it either.

In 17th century France, an evil wizard tries to get the Philosopher's Stone from Nicholas Flamel by kidnapping his wife Perenelle.