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♦ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2006
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Bones, Jasper, problems and Bernardo
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Lifestyle Editor
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It’s never too late to pay for Potter
By John Hansen
Morris News Service
I recently asked a sub
stitute teacher if she was a
“Harry Potter” fan.
“Yeah,” she said, “but I’ve
only read them once.”
It’s a necessary qualifier.
To read the books five times
each - buying paperback cop
ies for scribbled annotations,
while keeping those hardcov
ers pristine - is to be a true
“Harry Potter” fan. To read
them once is to scrape by
in the gutter of pop-culture
awareness.
To not know who Harry
Potter is is to have lived in
a cave for the last decade (if
that’s you, say hi to Sirius
for me). “Potter” is challeng
ing “Star Wars” for übiqui
tousness.
When Joss Whedon guest
reviewed “Veronica Mars”
for Entertainment Weekly,
he called it “the OHarrv
Potter’ of shows.” Whedon
has worked in TV film and
comics, but he went to a
book series for the ultimate
compliment.
Despite its continued cul
tural impact, 2006 wasn’t a
big year for the franchise:
This is the only year since
1998 without a new “Potter”
book or film (the first four
tomes have been adapted,
with “Order of the Phoenix”
up next in July). But it was
a big “Harry Potter” year for
me, as I finally read the six
books (J.K. Rowling is cur
rently writing Book 7, which
will conclude the series).
To read the “Potter”
books is to like them.
Granted, “Sorcerer’s Stone”
can be trudge-worthy and
“Chamber of Secrets” is
essentially a beefed-up
rewrite of “Stone.” But by
the time you get to “Prisoner
of Azkaban,” Rowling has
cast an Imperius Curse with
her words.
Rowling combines a pro
fessional’s crisp writing with
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Literary
Name the play that
begins with Bernardo
asking “Who’s there?”
USA Quiz
What city’s original name
meant “Island of Bones”?
Georgia Quiz
What famous singer was
born in Jasper County?
Bible Quiz
Who caused Job’s prob
lems?
a child’s sense of wonder.
You’ll find the books in the
young adult section at your
local library, but you won’t
get a funny look from the
librarian if you check them
out.
All the kids have their own
copies, anyway.
But unlike other famous
initialed fantasy writers,
Rowling asks nothing from
the reader other than to read;
she takes us by the hand and
brings us into her world.
The makers of last year’s
“Chronicles of Narnia” film
had to dream up the final
battle sequence themselves
because the description in
C.S. Lewis’s novel was so
sparse.
The “Potter” series
demands to be read a second
time not because Rowling’s
writing is hard to under
stand. Rather, the repeat
reading pull comes from her
made-up world’s richness
- the surface description is
so engaging that you can’t
be bothered to seek out the
Book 7 foreshadowing the
first time around.
Even before meeting
Rowling’s characters, you
practically know them from
their evocative names.
Dumbledore is a wise, kind
and quirky headmaster;
Snape has a fuse shorter
than his charges’ attention
spans; Umbridge is a hor
ror of a new teacher; and
Scrimgeour is a prime minis
ter worth keeping a wary eye
on. Professor Sprout, natu
rally, teaches Herbology.
While we already have a
base knowledge of wizards,
witches, dragons and giants,
Rowling expands our Muggle
minds by introducing us to
hippogriffs (a half-horse,
half-bird), thestrals (which
can only be seen by someone
who has witnessed a death)
and blast-ended skrewts (a
favorite creature of Hagrid’s,
although his students would
rather work with bowtruck
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It was maae from wood,
weighed about 400,000 lbs.
and had a wingspan of over
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Last Week’s
Answers
Thanks for Mike Stanley’s
help this week.
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The man is the picture is
the legendary Jim Thorpe.
Getting it right were Kelly
Hillis, James Tidwell, Olivia
Stachorek, Larry and Chris
Thomson, Jaloo Zelonis,
Mike Stanley, Terry Everett,
Jolene Pierson, Mike
Stockwell, Dennis Stewart,
Jim Worrall, Laurie Jones
and Bill Harrison.
Last Week’s
Cognoscenti
Lucia (Mrs. Emmeline
les).
Harry, Ron and Hermione
undergo life-or-death adven
tures every year at Hogwarts,
but Rowling - who usually
writes in third person over
Harry’s shoulder - still por
trays them as teens (they
age from 11 to 17 in the
series). Ron is often stuff
ing his face with potatoes or
pudding, Hermione always
has her nose in a reference
book and Harry has diffi
culty multi-tasking - don’t
ask him to simultaneously
study his Quidditch play
book and remember that he
won a vial of Felix Felicis
from Professor Slughorn the
previous semester.
By the time I got to “Half-
Blood Prince,” the most
recent tome, I found myself
charging through it in one
weekend, breaking only for
meals (which I frustratingly
prepared the old-fashioned
way - butter, macaroni, pow
dered cheese and milk - rath
er than conjuring a gourmet
feast by waving a wand).
I admit to a giggle when
a certain pair of sixth-years
hooked up and to a contem
plative pause when another
character’s allegiance was
revealed (or was it?) with a
horrifying act.
Now, when I listen to
the weekly Muggle Cast at
www.mugglenet.com, sure, I
chuckle a bit at the “Potter”-
heads’ absurdly in-depth
half-hour character analy
sis of Luna Lovegood. These
guys are so obsessed that
they put out a book called
“What Will Happen in Harry
Potter 7,” and I have no
doubt that all the answers
are indeed in there.
But I’m not poking fun
at them. Instead, I wish I
had a voice for radio (maybe
Hermione can recommend a
potion) so I could join in the
next Muggle Cast.
I’m not ready yet, though,
because I’ve only read the
books once. So far.
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Lucas) refused to divulge
the secret of Lobster a la
Riseholme. She is a main
character in two of the Mapp
and Lucia novels by E. F.
Benson (which are some of
the funniest books ever writ
ten). Getting it right were
Olivia Stachorek, Larry
and Chris Thomson, Jaloo
Zelonis, Mike Stanley, Terry
Everett, Jolene Pierson,
Mike Stockwell, Dennis
Stewart, Jim Worrall, Laurie
Jones, Sharon Cyr and Bill
Harrison.
Golden spike
The “golden spike” join
ing the Central Pacific and
Union Pacific Railroads
was driven May 10, 1869 at
Promontory, Utah. Getting it
right were Olivia Stachorek,
Larry and Chris Thomson,
Jaloo Zelonis, Mike Stanley,
Terry Everett, Jolene
Pierson, Mike Stockwell,
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Thomson, Jaloo Zelonis,
Mike Stanley, Terry Everett,
Jolene Pierson, Mike
Stockwell, Denniß Stewart,
Jim Worrall, Laurie Jones
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many times can a piece of
paper be folded in half.” This
one turned out to have sev
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traditional one is seven, but
some sources say six, and
some of the "quizzicals” dis
covered that various persons
had folded bathroom tissue
up to 12 times. Coming up
with various correct answers
were Olivia Stachorek, Larry
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Zelonis, Mike Stanley, Terry
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