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  2. Merlin - Wikipedia

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    [13] [14] In his Myrdhinn, ou l'Enchanteur Merlin (1862), La Villemarqué derived Marz[h]in, which he considered the original form of Merlin's name, from the Breton word marz (wonder) to mean 'wonder man'. [15] Clas Myrddin or Merlin's Enclosure is an early name for Great Britain as stated in the third series of Welsh Triads. [16]

  3. 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.

  4. Fiction featuring Merlin - Wikipedia

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    The Harry Potter website Pottermore states that Merlin was a Slytherin, despite the fact that real-world mythology places Merlin's existence several centuries before the founding of Hogwarts. Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files series (the first novel published in 2000) includes Merlin as both a title (leader of the White Council) as well as a man ...

  5. Harry Potter influences and analogues - Wikipedia

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    The Harry Potter series shares many similarities with George Lucas's Star Wars with respect to main characters, especially heroes and villains, as well as story plotlines. [54] [55] Scholar Deborah Cartmell states that Harry Potter 's story is based as much on Star Wars as it is on any other text. [56]

  6. Harry Potter (film series) - Wikipedia

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    Harry Potter is a film series based on the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling.The series was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and consists of eight fantasy films, beginning with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and culminating with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011).

  7. 30 best books for children, from Matilda to Alice in Wonderland

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    Raised by wolves, Mowgli must face the terrible tiger Shere Khan, with the help of Baloo, a “sleepy brown bear”, and Bagheera, a panther. ... 21. The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling (late ...

  8. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Wikipedia

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    Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a play written by Jack Thorne from an original story by Thorne, J. K. Rowling, and John Tiffany.The plot occurs nineteen years after the events of Rowling's novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

  9. Harry Potter (character) - Wikipedia

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    Harry James Potter is the titular character of the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling. The plot of the seven-book series chronicles seven years in the life of the orphan Harry, who, on his eleventh birthday, learns he is a wizard .