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...Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban...
...Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets...
Perhaps the most surprising appropriation of Rowling's world took place at the conservative Vanguard Church in suburban Colorado Springs, Colo. Housed in an old movie theater, the six-year-old church has 1,100 members, including lots of young families. Using Harry Potter to teach Sunday school was the brainchild of Tosha Williams, the petite young wife of senior pastor Kelly Williams. "That's one thing about Southern Baptists--we're very pragmatic," she notes, "and our goal is to reach people with the Gospel." So the teachers dressed as wizards, and the church was entirely decorated, with darkened...
...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...
...Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone...