Word: hogwartsã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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Despite the eerie resemblance of Hogwarts?? dining hall to Annenberg, Harvard is hardly a School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Here we cheer on the football team, not quiddich players–and Larry Summers is no Albus Dumbledore. Cheesy comparisons aside, after seeing the just-released Harry Potter movie, Melissa A. Eccleston ’04 “got the vibe that the whole storyline was very Harvardish.” Recalling scenes such as when Harry and friends leave home to go to school and features such as “houses” featuring masters...
...times, he ideally plays his character’s maturation from unsuspecting innocent to wizened first year graduate. Newcomer Rupert Grint is adorable as the red-headed Ron Weasley. He heaves huge sighs every time he becomes aggravated, and displays an honest look of amazement at all of Hogwarts?? wonders. As the third member of their trio, Emma Watson makes a proper Hermione Granger, although her role is slightly softened from her more officious character in the book. Of the more established actors in the cast, Robbie Coltrane bumbles his way into portraying a perfect Hagrid...
After the “Prologue,” the soundtrack ranges from soaring (“Harry’s Wondrous World”) to frenzied (“Hedwig’s Theme”) to downright creepy (“Christmas at Hogwarts??). Throughout, though, Williams maintains an air of magic befitting a Potter tale. There are chimes and bells aplenty to keep things mysterious—even the full-blown orchestral passages have a certain otherworldly feeling about them...
...trends society is following, which is why fads come so quickly and then die when new fads replace them. The rapid rise to prominence of the Harry Potter books created an “in” group—suddenly, you were not cool unless you knew what Hogwarts?? was. Before I had begun to read the series, I would hear people of all ages—from my small cousins to my friends to my mom—rave about the latest Potter book and what had happened in the magical world of Harry...