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...going to write, and she said, "It sounds pretty daunting." And I didn't take this seriously at that time. But once I got into the thick of writing, I thought I had really kind of cornered myself into a difficult spot, especially since I had set my heart on writing from two women's perspectives, two very different women. So it became very difficult, almost to the point where it kind of crippled the writing process. I was agonizing over whether I was doing it right and obsessed with this notion that women live in a different emotional arena...
...rate, she's written them now - Scholastic has just published the actual Tales of Beedle the Bard, a volume that includes five stories: the three Ron mentions plus "The Tale of the Three Brothers" (which already appeared in full in Deathly Hallows) and "The Warlock's Hairy Heart." Beedle joins Quidditch Through the Ages, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and, basically, all the movies as one of the minor but undeniable pleasures of the Potter canon. It's a book of meta-fairy tales - fairy tales for people who already live in a fairy-tale world where dragons...
...collection picks up with "The Warlock's Hairy Heart," a gothic, Poe-like tale about a wizard who uses Dark magic to make himself immune to love. He locks his heart away, literally, Horcrux-style, in a crystal case. By the time he finally goes to recover it he finds that his heart "had grown strange during its long exile, blind and savage in the darkness to which it had been condemned, and its appetites had grown powerful and perverse." Also it had gotten hairy. Rowling doesn't tell us the why of the hair, and no plot points turn...
...heart of the matter is a question of justice. A democratic society such as ours only works if the weak are protected from the unfair exploitation by the strong. It’s why it’s illegal for physically stronger people to prey on the powerless and for individuals who own guns to use them against people who don’t. The same is true for intelligence. As a society, we cannot allow people who are smart to exploit people who don’t know how to read a mortgage statement or don?...
...Everything stems from our defense,” Finelli said.The steals allowed Harvard to break, and everything was clicking for the offense.“Most of the shots just come in the flow of our transition,” Berry said.The freshman was at the heart of everything for Harvard, locking down her man on the defensive end, and then running the floor from the point.Berry scored 12 of her 14 points in the first half and added three assists in the opening 20 minutes.The Crimson went into the break up 15, and maintained a comfortable lead...