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The Magazine

July 18, 2004




The magic of Harry Potter



By Meera Jamal


HARRY POTTER is the most popular wizard character ever. And it’s not just the kids who are crazy about him. Even their parents seem to be entrapped by Harry’s magical spells. And the reason for this fan following are the magnificent imagery and splendid characterisation that make it something that one cannot relate to. Probably that is why we see most of the youngster imitating Harry, Ron and Hermoine.

But if there’s more that you want to learn about the adventures of Harry Potter, then log onto the Net. Here you’ll find sites, full of information and stuff that you might never have across before.

Out of many, Harrypotter.com is the official Harry Potter web site. The web site has a lot to offer, from book mistakes to name origins, from wand-shopping to movie scene trading cards. If you have read all five books of Harry Potter series and haven’t found a single mistake in it, then check out the mistake section. Here you’ll find loads of mistakes.

There are two things here that you won’t find anywhere else, and those are elf mail and howlers (the one that suppose to yell at the person you are sending to). If you want to invite someone to your place, then elf mail that person. But if you want to scold someone then you better go for the howler. The messages to choose from are pretty funny, do try them out.

If you desire for a pet, just like one Harry or Ron have, then you could choose your very own pet and name it whatever you want to. You can even download the latest posters of the new Harry Potter movie and add it to your collection. Sorting Hat on this website is bit boring, as it will always sort you in Gryffindor House. One thing, which you are definitely going to like about the site, is the game that Harry is famous for playing. Yes, it is the Quidditch that you can practice it first and then play as much as you like to.

Want to open an e-mail account you’ll be surprised by the fact that this web site caters all your needs, you can have an account for free.

But if you haven’t read any of the Harry Potter books then all you need to do is to visit Harrypotterville.com. The web site unlike others gives the summary of the first four books, especially for those non-believers who have no idea about Harry Potter and his adventures. Besides the other fun filled activities, you can also in the review section, read book as well as movie reviews by critics and readers alike.

For most of the games, the site will link you to the official web site. However, there are those games that are unique to this site, and the best here is the word scorer. In the game you have to select a number between 1 to 63, and amazingly it will figure out the one you have thought of.

Darkmark.com is a well-designed and a well-equipped web site. The best thing on the site is, however, the Harry Potter encyclopaedia. You are likely to find the meaning of every single word that is unique to the Harry Potter adventures. Name origins can be checked out as well, as at time the reason given for a name at one web site differs from the one at other. Like one web site would relate its character names with Greek mythological terms, while others with close friends.

If you have any doubt about being a wizard, which I am quite sure most of you don’t, then just scroll through the ten signs of wizards that have been written just for you.

But, other than Harry Potter, if is J.K. Rowling that you want to know more about then what better place then her official web site, www.jkrowling.com. Here you can read the latest news and rumours, which at times are quite sizzling indeed. Her biography available on the site is quite interesting and fun to read. It is always interesting to know about the person who makes waves with her tales in the children’s world. There are links available on the site of publishers, and other charity based organizations.

However, the oddest thing about this web site is that it has got very little to do with Harry Potter. No Harry Potter posters, galleries, games or anything at all, stuff that you generally discover in other web sites.

Though there aren’t games on Thesnitch.co.uk, but what makes the site more appealing otherwise are that the latest Harry Potter news are available on it. You can find more about the cast of the fourth Harry Potter movie, the latest awards his adventures have received and so on. The locations where the movies have been shot can be viewed too. If you are a collector of the Harry Potter posters and desktop wallpapers you will find plenty to add to your collection.

Though fantasy tales like Harry Potter are a good source of entertainment, you must keep one thing in mind that they are just stories, and have very little to do with the real world, if any at all. There are things that you can learn from them and they are the moral lessons that we find in these tales and should try to follow and understand them. There are some of you who are obsessed with being Harry Potter and wanting to attend some school of wizardry. But why worry if you are not Harry Potter? If you study well, you can become a scientist and do miracles of your own and discover things that were never thought of. So, always try to keep a balance between your fantasy world and your studies.



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