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Annenberg is the spitting image of Hogwarts?? Great Hall; the Harvard housing lottery resembles Hogwarts?? sorting ceremony; acceptance letters are delivered by owls. Harvard has almost everything that the magical world of Harry Potter contains—except for Quidditch. Although Harvard is still missing out on the magic, “Muggle Quidditch” is sweeping through the nation. Well over one hundred colleges, including our Ivy League rivals Yale and Princeton, are already part of the Intercollegiate Quidditch Association, the official league started by Middlebury College students in 2005. Muggle Quidditch is played...
Imelda Staunton is exceptional as devil-in-a-pink-sweater Dolores Umbridge, Hogwarts?? latest Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. When the camera lingers on her spoon dipping into a pot of faintly pink sugar, the sweet stuff has never looked more deadly. Rupert Grint also makes his best showing to date as Ron Weasley, and Helena Bonham Carter is electric and nightmarish as Azkaban-escapee Bellatrix Lestrange...
...Albus Dumbledore looks after him and the school institution is on his side. Not to worry, though. It all changes in Book V, as Harry must fight an evil school bureaucracy—in the form of a new professor turned government-appointed “High Inquisitor of Hogwarts??-turned-headmistress...
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...
...trends society is following, which is why fads come so quickly and then die when new fads replace them. The rapid rise to prominence of the Harry Potter books created an “in” group—suddenly, you were not cool unless you knew what Hogwarts?? was. Before I had begun to read the series, I would hear people of all 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...