Word: wizardly
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...Beedle the Bard, which Professor Dumbledore left her in his will. (Yes, he's dead. Sorry. Spoiler alert.) Because Hermione, like Harry, grew up in a Muggle family, she's never heard of the Tales, which are decribed as Aesop-like children's stories to be read to little wizarding kids. "Oh come on!" Ron says - he can't quite believe it. "All the old kids' stories are supposed to be Beedle's, aren't they? 'The Fountain of Fair Fortune'...'The Wizard and the Hopping Pot'...'Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump...
...introduction, an afterword, triple spacing and margins into which you could fit a Hungarian Horntail. None of the stories in it are bad - I don't think J.K. Rowling knows how to be less than charming in print - but they do vary in quality. The first tale, "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot," is the worst, a grimly heartwarming trifle about how you should be nice to Muggles. "Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump," a variant on the emperor's new clothes, isn't much more successful, though it was a relief to me to learn that the stump...
...abbreviated appearance of Mr. Gregg Gillis, the tiny engineering student behind the pseudo-copyright-infringing Wizard of Oz that is Girl Talk, still seems to cast something of a pathetic pall over the whole weekend for many participants. A glance at the Crimson archives reveals that this stricken reaction to the rally’s collapse is actually more striking than the collapse itself—given that the odds of success were so extremely...
...like Nader—tipped the scales in favor of a less popular candidate. His examples include not only five presidential campaigns, but also a Louisiana gubernatorial race in which spoilers led to a final vote between an egregiously corrupt Democrat and a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. In exhaustive detail, Poundstone describes the machinations of political camps as they seek to exploit minor parties for their own gains.Poundstone’s central argument boils down to a repudiation of the plurality voting method. Although plurality voting is widely accepted and is generally believed...
...true populist in the spirit of Ronald Reagan. For others, she was a nightmare. With no leader in sight, factions are maneuvering behind the scenes to assign blame and take control. "It's not going to be business as usual," says Richard Viguerie, a 75-year-old direct-mail wizard who joined the conservative movement before becoming a foot soldier for Barry Goldwater. "There are going to be just some massive battles for the heart and soul of the Republican Party." (See pictures of John McCain's campaign farewell...