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CC #076: Week of March 28, 2004

In this week’s Caption Contest image, Neville confronts explorer Rick O’Connell in the Gryffindor Tower. This is a special Maniacal Month caption image! Read all of the winning captions for this week’s contest now!

Terry Gilliam HAS to Direct OotP

by Robbie Fischer Have you ever seen his movie, The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen? It’s not perfect, by any means. But it is a GREAT movie. It is full of quirky charm, bizarre imagery, and...

Cornelius Fudge’s Tyranny Primer

by Robbie Fischer The behavior of the Ministry of Magic, particularly Fudge and Umbridge, in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, makes for a nursery book on the arts and sciences of tyranny....

Learn Spanish By Reading Harry Potter!

by Robbie Fischer This past week, I read Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal, which happens to be the Spanish version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s/Sorcerer’s Stone. Big deal! Millions of Spanish-speaking people can say...

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CC #075: Week of March 21, 2004

In this week’s Caption Contest image, Petunia and Vernon find themselves in the Jurassic age. This is a special Maniacal Month caption image! Read all of the winning captions for this week’s contest now!

Hermione as Hermes

by Nikko B.  As long as we have been reading about Hermione, we have known that her name is derived from that of “Hermes” –the messenger to the Greek gods. At first glance the...

Wizarding Images: Real or Memorex?

by Joshua Bradshaw By now we’ve become comfortable with the idea that photographs, paintings, and even tapestries in the wizarding world can move and even react to the environment to a degree. But how...