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Younger readers sense that she knows their world and their tastes. Kids care about brands: a Nimbus 2000 broom is the best on the market, at least until the Nimbus 2001 is released. They like to solve her puzzles: they are tickled to see that Diagon Alley, the wizard mall, is of course laid out diagonally. They like a character who moves from being powerless to being magical to having powers even over other adults. Harry's being an orphan makes him both more vulnerable and independent in ways most 13-year-olds are not; he had to invent himself...
...food on the table is, well, a lot like our own. Mrs. Weasley can cast a spell to make dirty dishes clean themselves, but she can't create new kitchenware out of thin air. Rowling has created a world in which a boy can fly on a broom, talk to snakes and grow gills like a fish, but he can no more easily cope with his crushing sadness about his dead parents than any other child. "She mixes the real-life struggles in with the imaginary, magic struggles," says Casey Brewer, 15, of Longwood, Fla. "Harry and his friends have...
QUIDDITCH UPDATE! Harry makes his house team to play the broom-bound sport of wizards...
...months, but the new director, Catalina Pestana, told parliament that there may still be pedophiles in the Casa Pia system. Officials estimate that more than 100 boys and girls, some of them deaf and mute, may have been sexually abused. The government has promised to let Pestana take a broom to Casa Pia. Doing so would help Prime Minister José Manuel Dur?o Barroso, whose Social Democratic Party ousted the Socialists in March last year, make good on his vow to bring life and honor back into Portugal's public institutions. The Casa Pia scandal should give him plenty...
...Quidditch World Cup (Electronic Arts, all platforms, Winter 2003) The latest game for Harry Potter fans, Quidditch World Cup pits national teams of broom-bound wizards against each other in arena-sized aerial pursuit of the ball and the game-ending golden snitch. One problem posed by the books-if the team that caught the snitch always wins, what was the point in scoring goals?-is answered here by a slight tweaking of the rules: each goal scores 10 pts, and the snitch is worth 150. And yes, you get to play as the lightning-scarred Hogwarts hero himself...