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Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Could You Pass Your Charms O.W.L.?
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It’s levi-OH-sa, not levi-o-SARRR...
Amazon Plans To Open Hundreds Of Physical Bookstores, Says Mall CEO
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The biggest bookseller in the world might be about to get quite a bit bigger — IRL.
Amazon, the retail behemoth, plans to open hundreds of brick and mortar bookstores, according to the CEO of a large mall ownership and operation group.
"Even Amazon [is] opening bricks-and-mortar bookstores, and their goal is to open, as I understand, 300 to...
You Will Never Be Able To Unsee Donald Trump As Dolores Umbridge
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, February 03, 2016
Sorry.
Remember Dolores Umbridge? The cat-loving villain from the Harry Potter series?
I mean, really, how could you forget?
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And you know Donald Trump, 2016 republican presidential candidate?
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JUST LOOK AT IT. LOOK AT THE TRUMPBRIDGE.
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23 Things You Only Understand If "Harry Potter" Fans Are Your People
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, February 03, 2016
Mischief management requires a squad.
There's that crucial, charged moment after someone asks if you're into Harry Potter where you have to gauge how much they're really ready for.
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And you know exactly the questions to ask to figure out just how compatible your fandoms are.
"So...how do you feel about Snape's relationship to Lily Evans?"
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Someone Calculated How Much Wizard Money Is Worth In "Harry Potter"
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, February 03, 2016
So basically, now we know how much a wand actually costs at Ollivander’s.
As Harry Potter fans are well aware, wizards use a different form of currency from us Muggles.
It's a coin-based currency, consisting of three denominations: galleons, sickles, and knuts.
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Hagrid already explained the exchanges between denominations in the first book, but what we still didn't...
42 Questions We Still Have About The Wizarding World
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, February 03, 2016
How do taxes work???
J.K. Rowling crafted a thoroughly beloved world with the Harry Potter series and all of its offshoots.
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But we still have some questions.
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1. What are wizard taxes like?
2. What's the deal with secondary school in the wizarding world? Are there just specialized vocational schools, or do they have general wizarding universities...
Leonardo DiCaprio Is Turning A YA Novel About The Apocalypse Into A Movie
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, February 03, 2016
The film will be based on The Sandcastle Empire by Kayla Olson.
The world of YA just got a whole lot more exciting. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Leonardo DiCaprio recently bought the movie rights to an upcoming novel, The Sandcastle Empire by Kayla Olson.
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The actor will be producing the movie along with filmmaker Jennifer Davisson,...
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