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...Alcott remains. There comes a time when we are supposed to discard children’s books and read “real” literature. Yet something about the books adults read when they’re young continues to attract and influence them. Books like the Harry Potter series and Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy owe a large part of their success to fact that they’ve managed to attract adult readerships. And adults still seek to justify the books they enjoyed as children. The Harvard English...
...Dolores Umbridge, the bureaucrat from the Ministry of Magic in this summer's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Imelda Staunton is a little bit priestess, a little bit villainous. Staunton, the latest in a line of top British thespians to visit Hogwart's, found it a tough balancing act: "The character has to be ridiculous and yet real and frightening. She has to be silly and yet not cartoony. It's difficult to gauge." The performance and the couture established an ostensibly soft side to Dolores. "She wears cardigans and pinks. She threatens...
...After rumors to the contrary, Warner Bros. announced that once and future Hermione Emma Watson (with co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint) is booked for all seven Harry Potter films. AIN'T IT COOL NEWS mops its fevered, geeky brow: "Our long national nightmare comes to a close." Just don't tell them what happens to Dumbledore in the last book. SCORE...
...Harry Potter may have been filmed at Oxford, but students at Hogwarts have it much better than the typical student here. With steeply climbing costs and the recent poor performance of the Rhodes endowment—which translates into a lower stipend—just living in one of the Oxford colleges might bust your budget...
Michael Gambon plays an 18th century British abolitionist in the new film Amazing Grace and Dumbledore, the headmaster, in the Harry Potter movies...