Wingardium Leviosa! | GIF Six-Pack

There's a new Harry Potter book, so let's levitate stuff!

by Beckett Mufson

July 29, 2016, 1:35pm

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Whether or not you're jazzed for the new Harry Potter book coming out this weekend, it's a reminder that the magic is still real. Titled Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the new book has been in previews as a play in London since June, officially opening to the public on July 30. At midnight on the July 31, Harry Potter's (and J.K. Rowling's) birthday, you can download the script as an ebook online. Some are less than enthusiastic about reading a play, but if Harry Potter fans are willing to deal with the clunky Pottermore site, they'll get excited for anything.

And can you blame them? Their obsession is still ingrained in our culture, to the point that two of the current presidential candidates are being compared to the series' most memorable villains. Those magical moving portraits that wowed us as little kids are pretty much GIFs, and the GIF-makers we've gathered this week know how to use their gifts for some truly magical visions. The levitating works of Zolloc, Hateplow, and Julian Glander shows that with enough software, you don't need to swish and flick anything to pull off a Wingardium Leviosa.

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