Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Harry Potter and the Bizarre Bezoar

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Any wizard or witch worth his or her weight their salt knows that if their friend has just been poisoned by a potion the best thing in the world you can do for them is to shove a bezoar down their throat.  For heaven's sake even first years at the world-renowned Hogwarts School of Witchcraft of Wizardry know that.  Of course, the only reason that I, as a non-magical person (muggle) know this is thanks to J.K. Rowling's fascinating seven-part biography of one of the Wizarding World's most honored figures, Harry Potter.

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Aragorn and Arwen Sitting in a Tree...


So Aragorn from the Lord of the Rings is really into older women.  And when I say older women I'm not talking about a five, ten or even twenty year age difference.  No, Aragorn goes after women who are more than 2,500 years older than him.

Seriously.

Thursday, June 19, 2014

What do Harry Potter and Minerva McGonagall Have in Common?

Source: http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00041178.html

What do Harry Potter and Minerva McGonagall have in common?  I mean beside the fact that they both come from households who stifled any signs of magic, and the fact that they are both Gryffindors and the fact they were both star Quidditch players during their school years too.  Wow, come to think of it, they actually have a lot in common.  There is one commonality in particular which I wanted to highlight for today's fun fact, and that is that they both had very similar experiences under the Sorting Hat. They both caused a hatstall.