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  2. Harry Potter influences and analogues - Wikipedia

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    They are set some arrogant bullies – in Tom Brown's case, Harry Flashman, in Harry's case Draco Malfoy Crabbe, and Goyle. Stephen Fry, who both narrates the British audio adaptations of the Harry Potter novels and has starred in a screen adaptation of Tom Brown, has commented many times about the similarities between the two books. "Harry ...

  3. Politics of Harry Potter - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] In his article for the John Birch Society's magazine The New American, Constitution Party Communications Director Steve Bonta compared Harry Potter negatively to The Lord of the Rings, saying, "The Potter books read in places like diatribes against the modern middle class, especially whenever Harry confronts his ludicrously ...

  4. Lord Voldemort - Wikipedia

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    In the books, and to a lesser extent in the films, Harry's scar serves as an indicator of Voldemort's presence: it burns when the Dark Lord is near or when Voldemort is feeling murderous or exultant. According to Rowling, by attacking Harry when he was a baby Voldemort gave him "tools [that] no other wizard possessed—the scar and the ability ...

  5. The royal, 41, opened up about his Harry Potter-like scar while visiting Cardiff Metropolitan University on Tuesday, June 11. William was on hand to celebrate the "progress already achieved in ...

  6. Harry Potter - Wikipedia

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    The Elephant House was one of the cafés in Edinburgh where Rowling wrote the first part of Harry Potter.. The series follows the life of a boy named Harry Potter.In the first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the US), Harry lives in a cupboard under the stairs in the house of the Dursleys, his aunt, uncle and cousin, who all treat him poorly.

  7. Cultural icon - Wikipedia

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    A red telephone box is a British cultural icon. [3]According to the Canadian Journal of Communication, academic literature has described all of the following as "cultural icons": Shakespeare, Oprah, Batman, Anne of Green Gables, the Cowboy, the 1960s female pop singer, the horse, Las Vegas, the library, the Barbie doll, DNA, and the New York Yankees."

  8. The real story behind that awkward Melania Trump and Prince ...

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    Photos of Prince Harry meeting Melania Trump at the Invictus Games in October quickly spread like wildfire on the internet over an awkward hand signal he flashed next to the first lady.

  9. Harry Potter (character) - Wikipedia

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    Harry's aunt and uncle kept the truth about his parents' deaths from Harry, telling him that they had died in a car crash. [2] James Potter is a descendant of Ignotus Peverell , the third of the three original owners of the Deathly Hallows, and thus so is Harry, a realisation he makes during the course of the final book.