The Quidditch players scurry about the field, clutching broomsticks as they chase after the Quaffle, a volleyball. A few players run around, throwing Bludgers (rubber kickballs) at others to knock the Quaffle from their hands. Meanwhile, the Snitch, a person dressed in all yellow, runs sporadically around and outside of the field in an attempt to evade capture.

Let’s face it: Daniel Radcliffe has probably already been in the most successful movie of his career. With the last Harry Potter movie earning more than a billion dollars worldwide, Radcliffe has little chance of topping that film.

Cadenza loves award shows, so we decided we should make our own awards. Here are the first round of the Cadenzites, offering you our favorite pop culture items from the past year.

It seems that we Cadenza reporters often write about pop-culture-inspired Halloween costumes that we think would be awesome. We’re tired of the positive attention we’ve brought to some looks, so here are five costumes we absolutely do not want to see as the end of the month approaches.

During the middle-of-the-fall entertainment news lull, Cadenza needs to get creative with what stories to run. Our solution? Thinking of TV/movie characters that really should go to our school, if they were, well, real. Here’s what we came up with. Alex Dunphy (“Modern Family”) Wash. U. would give Alex the opportunity to explore all of [...]

The first day that Pottermore offered the Magical Quill Challenge, I missed the clue and the opportunity to get a beta invite by two hours. Distraught that I would miss the opportunity to join Pottermore before everyone else, I stayed up until 4 a.m. the following day to wait for the clue to appear and grab my invite.

Bridesmaids 4.5/5 Easily the funniest movie of the summer, and possibly the funniest movie Judd Apatow has been involved with, “Bridesmaids” and its $160 million+ box office finally proved to sexist studios that female-driven comedy could be both hilarious and profitable. Led by SNL’s Kristen Wiig (who also co-wrote the movie) and Maya Rudolph, it [...]

1. It was all a dream; Dudley wakes up from a strange, deep sleep and then goes to beat up his non-magical adopted cousin Harry.

I’m not entirely sure what I’m doing here. I’ve spent the last three years of my college life defending my total indifference to the Harry Potter phenomenon.

It’s officially the beginning of the end: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1,” the first part of the last movie in the Harry Potter series. The end is near, and Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) is trying to destroy all parts of his nemesis Lord Voldemort’s soul.