Blind Harry

the musical seems like it would be rather interesting purely because it is every Harry Potter dorks dream come true. However, upon further look into the musical people begin to realize that the music isn’t really that great. For a person who does not have a musical background the play is rather enjoyable but when one turns a musical ear to it they want to run the other way. “A Very Potter Musical” presents us with Harry Potter’s second year but contains all of the final scenes from books four,…

Reading can be the portal for new and enlightening experiences. Due to an abundance of material at our fingertips, how do we make a wise choice? Does grouping by age make the library a more user friendly place? An age group stands to be defined as a number of people that happen to be the same age. The notion of an age group assists librarians around the world by lending them a hand in identifying books or movies that are appropriate for a certain age group. Common Sense Media is a website…

orbiting around her work and redefined an entire genre of books. In addition to transforming the names Harry, Hermione, and Ron into household names, she also brought to life one of the twenty-first century 's most iconic and memorable antagonists: Lord Voldemort, or He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Striking fear into children 's hearts, he represents the polar opposite to Harry 's goodness. While Harry 's motivations are founded in love and friendships, Voldemort 's are founded in hatred and pure…

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone written by J.K. Rowling is the first novel in the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter series. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is a Heroic Quest Cycle because it includes a call to adventure, a descending into darkness, and a transformation and resurrection. This novel shows Harry evolving into a better being, descending into the darkest part of his quest, and more importantly, being presented with an adventure that completely…

J.K. Rowling’s fantasy book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (book 7), takes place in the wizarding world in the 1990’s – a place where magical wands exist, and where witches and wizards belong. Harry Potter, the main character of the book, is in the middle of the biggest wizarding war of history. The darkest wizard, Voldemort, wants to kill Harry, and then take over the entire wizarding world! Harry is in a lot of danger, and doesn’t have a lot of time to figure out how to destroy all…

A classic military child. A classic military move. However, the move took on another classical connation for me. The transition embodied a new persona, one entirely distinct from the preceding moves. This one felt like a classical fairy tale. At the miniscule stage in my life, I had little recognition of the actions inundating me until my mother broke this “enchanting” news in terms I could comprehend. We were moving from Michigan to Germany. While the conception of residing in Europe awes some…

We already brought you some interesting facts about Pretty Little Liars. But in case you haven't had enough, here are a few more! Number Eight: The Book Characters Look Completely Different On Television In some cases when books become movies or television shows there is some carry over when it comes to how the characters look. With Pretty Little Liars, that didn't happen. In the book world, Aria has black hair and blue eyes, Spencer has dirty blonde hair and green eyes, Hanna has auburn hair…

Waking up in a strange upwardly-moving metal box, with no memory of who he is or how he got there, Thomas emerges into the blinding light of his new home, the Glade – a giant clearing flanked by four impossibly high concrete walls. He is met by a gang of hostile boys who all speak a strange kind of slang he’s never heard before. Quickly labelled the ‘Greenbean’, Thomas finds his introduction to life in the Glade abrupt and confusing, and no one seems to want to tell him what’s going on or why…

It was an action, full of adventure, romantic, but above all that, it was a fantasy. J.K Rowling knew exactly what she was doing when she wrote this story line. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an extrodinary array of magical creatures documented by a man by the name of Newt Scamander. During this movie Newt travels away from his home in England to the Big Apple known as New York. While in New York he might have made it there and back without conflict if it weren’t for Jacob Kowalski,…

Joanne Rowling, Author of the famed Harry Potter series, was born July 31, 1965 in Yate of the United Kingdom (“J.K.Rowling”). Rowling has grown to be one of the most profoundly known children’s authors of the twenty-first century. The genesis of Rowling’s writing career began at a very young age. Since childhood, Rowling knew that she wanted to be a writer. At primary school, Rowling would entertain her classmates by telling thrilling tales of rabbits and a bee. This quality of storytelling…