Harry Potter

1. A boy wizard and the hero of a series of widely read fantasies by the British author J. K. Rowling. Eleven-year-old Harry, an orphan, discovers his magical powers, and the books chronicle his adventures at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Notes

The first book in the series was published in England as and in the United States as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone . It was made into a film in 2001.

Example Sentences

There is, fortunately, not too much telling of the future in Harry Potter.

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Daniel Radcliffe may not be Harry Potter anymore but he continues to amaze us with magic.

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For so much of the Harry Potter series, Voldemort was the ghost story, but Dolores Umbridge was the actual ghost.

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The latest example is the Harry Potter Hotel Package offered at The Georgian House.

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That same day—July 8—Rowling released a new Harry Potter story on her website Pottermore.

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