Word: wizardly
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...shocked by those who believe that the Potter books promote witchcraft and so are bad for children to read. Have these critics forgotten the timeless classics, like Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, The Wizard of Oz and Cinderella, all of which include magic and even witches? The story of Harry Potter will be yet another classic tale that will generously feed the imagination of generations to come. LAUREN STEWART Geneseo...
...playing the role of accidental oil tycoon Jed Clampett in the 1960s television series The Beverly Hillbillies; in Los Angeles. Ebsen started out as a lanky song-and-dance man, and partnered with Shirley Temple in the 1936 film Captain January. He almost played the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, but left the film because he was allergic to the aluminum makeup used for the role. Ebsen later starred as a geriatric private investigator in TV's Barnaby Jones...
Bush has Oliver to thank for much of that success but rarely praises him in public. And that's how Oliver likes it. He's the financial wizard behind the curtain. It's a role Oliver played for Bush in 2000 and one he is reprising this year, having just moved from the Republican Party to be deputy finance chairman for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign. Being outside the White House, Oliver avoids any taint of seeming to influence policy. And yet he carries the weight of being close to top presidential adviser Karl Rove and of speaking...
...Hogwarts. But a lot has changed. Death, which was always part of the subtext of Rowling's story, burst out into the open in the previous novel, and the atmosphere in Phoenix has darkened accordingly. Voldemort is back, and Hogwarts' sage headmaster Aldus Dumbledore has organized some of the wizarding world's heavy hitters--your Mad-Eye Moody, your Remus Lupin--into an informal league called the Order of the Phoenix to oppose the evil wizard and his followers...
Harry, however, starts a subversive student group—pretty gutsy as the disciplinary proceedings at Hogwarts have taken a turn for the worse. Before Harry even gets to school for his first year, he must face down a disciplinary hearing at the Ministry of Magic, the wizard federal government. As the book opens (and at 870 pages, the opening takes a while) Harry is tried before the Wizengamot—the Wizard High Court—which is considering expelling him from Hogwarts on trumped up charges. I’m guessing the Ad Board...