Harry Potter

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Iranian prosecutor: Banish Barbie!
After tireless attempts to stop Barbie's Iranian invasion, will she be exiled for good?
Law, torture and Harry Potter
This is not a joke: A flawed legal regime afflicts the Potter-verse.
Can "Harry Potter" math save our schools?
All is forgiven, J.K. Rowling.
J.K. Rowling's Crucio curse
Farhad Manjoo explores why the author should allow publication of a fan's Harry Potter Lexicon.
Only Harry Potter can save Pakistan!
Karachi school kids think You-Know-Who and the Death Eaters have seized control. But where's Dumbledore?
I'm addicted to Harry Potter fan fiction!
Every moment I'm alone, I'm secretly reading the stories, the forums, the recommendations. I can't stop!
Dumbledore? Gay. J.K. Rowling? Chatty.
What happens when authors like J.K. Rowling can't stop telling their own stories?
Harry Potter and the rebounding stock market?
A magic quarter for Amazon has investors hoping for a rebound after a dreary Tuesday. Will their futures prophecy come true?
Hasta la vista, Harry
A few final, spoiler-free thoughts on Harry Potter from the members of Salon's reader community, Table Talk.
Goodbye, Harry Potter
Does J.K. Rowling's final installment, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," provide the magical ending to the beloved series her readers so desperately long for?
For Harry Potter fans about to rock, we salute you
A global network of Potter-influenced bands inspired kids like 8-year-old Darius to make their own wizard rock. Will fans keep the music alive?
Harry Potter and the art of screenwriting
Michael Goldenberg talks about the pleasures and pitfalls of adapting "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" for the big screen.
"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"
Patches of magical beauty rescue this sprawling adaptation of the fifth book in J.K. Rowling's beloved series.
Potterpalooza
For the Quidditch players, wizard rockers and would-be witches who gathered at a New Orleans Harry Potter convention, this is the dawning of their summer of love -- and loss.
Maher's New Rules: Hogwarts
An exclusive clip from "Real Time With Bill Maher"
607 days 'til we can legally play "tonsil Quidditch"
"Harry Potter" hottie Daniel Radcliffe turns 18 on July 23, 2007.
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"
Harry and his friends are growing up, but this latest Potter film may leave you struggling with your own childhood demons.
Heroes and hormones
Harry learns more about his mysterious nemesis -- and the brutal reality of being 16 -- in J.K. Rowling's tricky, but ultimately satisfying, penultimate volume in the "Harry Potter" series.
"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
Hippogriffs, Dementors and Harry, oh my! Director Alfonso Cuaron finally decants the essence of J.K. Rowling's work and brings us one of the greatest fantasy films of all time.
Blahbusters
Don't buy the frantic pleadings of the Hollywood media machine -- summer blockbusters have become a colossal bore.
A.S. Byatt and the goblet of bile
The author's recent New York Times Op-Ed shows that she doesn't understand why so many of us love Harry Potter. Maybe it's just too much fun.
Harry Potter, teen rebel
No, Hogwarts isn't a hotbed of drugs, smoking and sex (at least not yet). But J.K. Rowling's rich and huge new installment unmistakably brings our bespectacled hero into adolescence.
No "heroines," owls, birthdays or pumpkins -- they might offend somebody
In her new bestseller "The Language Police," historian Diane Ravitch rips into the p.c. cops who are ruining America's textbooks in the name of "sensitivity."
The Fix
Kylie Minogue shows off her underwear, Tony Soprano smiles, Celine Dion cleans up and John Kerry talks about his balls.
The trouble with Harry
Despite terrific special effects and funnier gags, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" finds a way to make J.K. Rowling's marvelous series into a deadly bore.
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