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.

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

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Rowling on the Harry Potter enterprise.

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Linke compared the structures to the small magical handbag of Hermione Granger, a fictional character in the “Harry Potter” series, saying that they can “store huge amounts of gas in a tiny volume.”

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"I mean, dinosaurs and Harry Potter at the same time? The kids are going to love that."

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Harry Potter star Emma Watson was there, along with Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman, who appeared almost a week after she filed for divorce from musician Keith Urban.

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Among the fair’s big-ticket items was a rare first edition of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” — J.K.

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