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...missteps is that it tries too hard to strike a balance between making the film a primer for fans new to Potter lore, yet simultaneously, assuming that its audience knows the complex history behind the characters. Aside from the prerequisite villain, the unpleasant characters that readers love to hate from the books don’t seem nearly as vile as they do in Rowling’s books. Both Harry’s arch-nemeses at Hogwarts, the spoiled Draco Malfoy and the leering Potions Professor Severus Snape, are given limited exposure time in the film, thus de-emphasizing...
...Dursley, but I am a Muggle and proud of it. Just wading through the pages of J.K. Rowling’s first volume was toil enough: Quidditch and Hogwarts and Gryffindor are words in another language that I have no interest in learning. (I’m already expecting hate-mail from everyone who worships Rowling or her fictitious characters, accusing me of being everything from a philistine to a cynic...
...always hate scramblers because they’re a pain, but we’ve done well containing these types of quarterbacks so far,” Lahaie said. “Either way we’ll be able to handle them...
...fear our response to this tragedy has been to bomb innocent people in Afghanistan, to starve them to death and drive them from their homes when most of them hate the Taliban as much as we do. I am terrified that we have answered this tremendous loss of human life with more loss of human life. I am scared of bombing Red Cross buildings and of starving refugees mistaking unexploded bombs for our aid packages. I’m terrified by the horrific cycle of violence we are perpetuating on foreign soil. And I am terrified of the retaliation...
...enemies are scattered across the globe, so killing bin Laden and eradicating the Taliban, even if it is possible, will not protect us from the wrath of those already determined to harm us. They don’t hate us only because American women are free to live independent lives. They hate us because we have starved thousands of Iraqi children to death with our sanctions. They hate us because we so often proclaim our strength and superiority. And they will hate us even more as we keep bombing through the Islamic holy month of Ramadan which begins next Saturday...