Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After growing up in suburban London, Harry discovers he is a wizard, and is whisked away from his evil relatives to study at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry...
...touch of evil already lurks in Harry's world. A wizard who took up the Dark Arts killed his parents, but could not kill Harry, who was left with a lightning bolt scar on his forehead. This mark makes him instantly recognizeable in the wizard world...
...that interested in the daughter herself, they do get a chance to look at Galileo at an unusually intimate distance. This "relive the life" approach demands a book very different from, for example The New, New Thing. Small details matter, whereas no one is too concerned what technology wizard Jim Clark had for lunch every day (Lombardi had a daily hamburger) or where Mankind happened to grow up. The focus is the individual, and while that focus often includes the larger scope of the endeavors that individual is involved in, these biographies never lose sight of the fact that they...
Other New Year scenes have drawn from "Aladdin" and "The Wizard...
...more than an evil curse, a sort of black magic that has cast its spell over fourth-graders everywhere. They argue that Rowling is promoting witchery (a bonafide religion in the United States) over good old-fashioned Christianity. You see, Harry Potter is no ordinary boy. He is a wizard-in-training, and in Rowling's books, there is a whole magic world out there which he inhabits. Except, of course, when he has to go home for the holidays...