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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...
...now—Harry Potter is only 11 years old in the movie and 15 in the books so far, so it will be a few years before Potter: The College Years is unleashed. Furthermore, students will have to content themselves with Folkore and Mythology 107b: “Witchcraft,” taught by Professor Stephen A. Mitchell, since Harvard will not be offering classes on Defense Against the Dark Arts. Unfortunately, midterms still take more work than waving a magic wand...
...vivid and fantastic life. The series tells the story of Harry Potter, a young wizard who spends the first 11 years of his life trapped under a cupboard by his muggle, or non-wizard, relatives before discovering that he is actually a wizard, and has been invited to study witchcraft at Hogwart’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. With his trusted pals Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, he discovers a new world of potions, Quidditch games and Bernie Bott’s Every-Flavor Beans, all the while being drawn towards his destiny—a confrontation with...
...fanatic Christian who seeks to warn the public about witchcraft, I merely despise the hype and licensing that Rowling has condoned while hypocritically proclaiming her support of literacy campaigns. Fans will argue that all this commercialism is actually good for everyone, that it reinforces reading and promotes literacy in a society of music videos and video games. But does it reinforce the desire to read per se, or just the desire to purchase more Harry Potter paraphernalia...
...effects of Echinacea, and suggested taking three little green meanies any time we even thought that a little tickle might be forming at the back of our throat. At the time, being of sound mind and body, I scoffed at this quaint notion. Taking herbal supplements sounded more like witchcraft than modern medicine. If this stuff did anything, I reasoned, researchers would have found out about it, analyzed it, extracted the active ingredients, and marketed the remedy to consumers. I felt saved and superior in my tower of Panglossian reasoning...