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  2. 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]

  3. List of phoenixes in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels feature a phoenix named Fawkes. [4] In Harry Potter's world, phoenixes can carry enormous weights, and their song is said to strike fear into the hearts of the impure and courage into those who are pure of heart. The tears of the phoenix can heal severe poisoning, and other illnesses and injuries.

  4. 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.

  5. Everything We Know About HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ Series - AOL

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    In total, the original “Harry Potter” film series has grossed $7.7 billion at the worldwide box office. Here is everything we know so far about HBO’s “Harry Potter” TV series.

  6. John Lithgow Is Set to Play Dumbledore in the New ‘Harry ...

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    Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images John Lithgow could be eyeing a magical new role as Professor Albus Dumbledore. The six-time Emmy winner, 79, is in final talks to play the Hogwarts headmaster in HBO ...

  7. Pawnbroker - Wikipedia

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    A pawnshop business in Munich, Germany in 2014 Helsingin Pantti's pawnbroker in Helsinki, Finland in 2023 A London shop displays the traditional pawnbroker's sign. A pawnbroker is an individual or business (pawnshop or pawn shop) that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral.

  8. John Granger - Wikipedia

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    In respect to the Harry Potter series, Granger holds, contrary to several Christian critics of the series – including Berit Kjos [18] and Richard Abanes – that the books' magic is incantational rather than invocational, and, as such, require and support a Christian worldview rather than undermine it. Granger has debated Abanes and Catholic ...

  9. Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide - Wikipedia

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