Word: quiddich
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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...
...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 and his friends. All too quickly it would become clear that I did not share their understanding of Quiddich and the rest of Harry’s adventures, their appreciation of trolls and giants, of mean classmates and invisibility cloaks. When people asked me if I had read them, I would look down and mumble something about not having time, embarrassed by my ignorance...
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