Word: quidditch
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Dudley House's Stacy Rush has always dreamed of playing Quidditch...
...pretty sure I came to Harvard to play Quidditch. I've heard all about the teams in America. I hear it is the fastest-growing college sport in America. But I was disappointed that Harvard did not have a team. So I had to make...
...signs of increasing fragility, ominously symbolized by his injured hand. Hogwarts, once seen as a rare safe haven, begins to lose much of its structural integrity. Despite the film’s grim tone, the storyline isn’t all danger and darkness. After a two-year absence, Quidditch is back, and Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) joins the Gryffindor team as Keeper. Comic relief comes in the form of new characters, most notably Ron’s annoyingly perky girlfriend Lavender Brown (Jessie Caves) and the arrogant Cormac McLaggen (Freddie Stroma), who compulsively chases after Hermione Granger (Emma Watson...
...finishing order this weekend - Harry Potter 6 Ice Age 3 Transformers 2 - might seem like the score of a three-team intergalactic Quidditch match, but it's really a demonstration of the power of sequels. The sixth installment of the Potter series has already earned more than $200 million worldwide - probably way, way more, since the week's final international figures won't come out until later on Monday, and the franchise has typically earned nearly 70% of its theatrical coin abroad. The third Ice Age cartoon, Dawn of the Dinosaurs, which has also enjoyed a foreign take...
...final volume a decade later, J.K. Rowling's septet of adventures has enchanted tens of millions of kids, their older siblings and all those adults who are as fascinated by the wizarding world as any child. The books held many delights for the very young: the Quidditch matches, magical beasts and wand work. But as Harry and his classmates entered puberty, Rowling began to address a time of grand and awful responsibilities, the transformation of the body before the mind is ready, the queasy realization that every decision can have ecstatic or cataclysmic consequences. In a word, adolescence...