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Harry Potter

People walk through the exhibits from the movie Harry Potter displayed at the Artscience museum during media preview in Singapore on June 1, 2012. More than 200 authentic props, costumes and creatures that were used on set for the Harry Potter movies are on display at the exhibition from June 2 till September 30.

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  • Harry Potter spoof is a must-see

    Cynthia Skenderis favorite part of Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience? When the chocolate came out of his nose, said the 7-year-old first-grader from Buckley Country Day School in Roslyn.For her younger brother, Christopher, 6, the funniest 5/31/12 Read more »

  • 'Potted Potter': A chat with the stars

    It seems impossible: condense all seven Harry Potter books into a 70-minute show. But the British comedy duo of Jefferson Turner and Daniel Clarkson take on the challenge, with Turner playing Potter and Clarkson playing everyone else from Voldemort to Do   Read more »

  • Magic! Harry Potter studio tour opens near London

    (AP) -- Hogwarts Castle is ready to welcome the Muggle multitudes.Here, on a film studio sound stage near London, stands the real Hogwarts -- or at least a monumental model of the fictional wizarding school, the very one used in the eight "Harry Potter"   Read more »

  • Poll: Did you see 'The Hunger Games'?

    "The Hunger Games" has scored a $155 million opening weekend that puts it near the top of the domestic record book.The huge haul marks the third-best debut ever in terms of revenue, behind the $169.2 million opening for last year's "Harry Potter" finale   Read more »

  • Review: 'The Hunger Games' darker than 'Harry Potter,' more sophisticated than 'Twilight'

    One kid bludgeons another to death while sports commentators murmur approval in "The Hunger Games," a teenage sci-fi film that's obviously darker than " Harry Potter " and far more sophisticated than " The Twilight Saga ."The movie clearly wants to repla   Read more »

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About Harry Potter

Harry James Potter is the title character and the main protagonist of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. The majority of the books' plot covers seven years in the life of the orphan Potter who, on his eleventh birthday, learns he is a wizard. Thus, he attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to practice magic under the guidance of the kindly headmaster Albus Dumbledore and other school professors. Harry also discovers that he is already famous throughout the novel's magical community, and that his fate is tied with that of Lord Voldemort, the nationally feared Dark Wizard and murderer of his mother and father.

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