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Ever wonder where lost luggage winds up if it never finds its way home? At unclaimedbaggage.com the website for a 31-year-old store in Scottsboro, Ala., you can buy orphan luggage and cargo at a fraction of the original cost. The site has sold a wide variety of lost goods, including cell-phone accessories, a 75-carat aquamarine, even a suit of armor. "We often say that if these bags could talk, what a story they'd tell," says Bryan Owens, Unclaimed Baggage's CEO. How does the company get its hands on these goods? Airlines pay settlements...
...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 because his spirit was not likely to be gently formed by his odious aunt and uncle. Not having a regular family, kids say, is something many of them can relate to. Teachers...
Harry Potter is an orphan whose parents were killed by the evil sorcerer Voldemort when Harry was a baby. (Voldemort tried to kill Harry too but only scarred his forehead.) He finds another family in his professors and the students Ron and Hermione at Hogwarts, a school for young wizards...
...good at it that her lawyers are constantly swatting down copycats trying to cash in on Pottermania. Her legal team recently won victories against a Chinese knock-off, Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-to-Dragon, and a Russian novel about Tanya Grotter, an orphan with magical powers who attends a boarding school. Rowling was badly shaken when an American writer named Nancy Stouffer claimed she had stolen the word muggle and otherwise plagiarized Stouffer's work. A New York City federal judge found that Stouffer had "perpetrated a fraud." It felt, Rowling says, "as if some strange woman...
...Teaching is the fiscal orphan that no one wants to pay for,” she said. “[and] when you teach someone, that physician moves more slowly because he has to stop and explain and demonstrate...