Take one piece of wire and cut it to around 12 inches (30.48 cm) long with the wire cutters. Find the center point and bend slightly to mark its place. Curve the wire by running it between your ...

Make up your own spell. Refer to any good Latin dictionary and give the students a list of Latin nouns and verbs, which they can combine into their own spells. Let them practice on each other ...

J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, has called Leaky “my favorite fan site” and “a wonderfully well-designed mine of accurate information on all things Harry Potter” that ...

There are many forms of authority. Those exercised in the books include legal, parental, and moral authority. The use of authority relies first on the acknowledgement by both parties to the ...

Some would say that Harry Potter is a Bildungsroman story, about the growth of the protagonist (Harry) from childhood to adulthood. Others argue that it is a fantasy story containing a quest ...

Yarn in burgundy for Gryffindor, yellow for Hufflepuff, blue for Ravenclaw, green for Slytherin (MC) Yarn gold for Gryffindor, black for Hufflepuff, bronze for Ravenclaw (movie), grey for ...

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US 6 (4 mm) or US 8 (5 mm) 12-16" (30.5 cm - 40.6 cm) circular needle, size dependent on gauge ...

Finding the Cup just happens to be an added bonus. In the maze Harry encounters many different obstacles, all of which test his knowledge and abilities. Among these is a giant sphinx who asks ...

In 1969, Neo-Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser published an essay entitled "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses' in which he proposed a new way of looking at the concept of ideology.

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Join in round and knit 3 rounds in garter stitch (k 1 row, p 1 row). Knit 4 rounds. Eyelet round: k3 k2tog, k2, k2tog repeat to end of round. Note from the crafty witches: A crafter tried this ...