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Harry Potter is not the first character -- real or fictional -- who learned how to excite the masses through evocative imagery and clever words. China's revered leader Mao Zedong knew well the power of "emotion work." That's why he so effectively won the hearts of the people. He knew how to stir "bitterness" against landowners, hatred toward Christians,love for communism, and a sacrificial spirit that would give its all to his totalitarian reign. By identifying and isolating the key "enemy" as the most threatening evil, the new evils no longer seem so bad.
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Harry Potter is a near-spitting image of his father, having jet black, untidy hair, although with brilliant green eyes that are identical to his mother's. Harry's physique as a boy was described as "small and skinny", with a thin face and knobbly knees, due to his quality of life in his youth. In time he would grow to be "within an inch" of his father's height, and James was often described as tall. He wears round-rimmed glasses. Upon his forehead, covered by his unruly black hair, is a scar shaped like a lightning bolt. The scar is a result of the failed Avada Kedavra curse cast on him by Lord Voldemort.
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On July 30, 2007, Harry Potter fans had the opportunity to ask J.K. Rowling their questions in a live webchat on Bloomsbury.com. J.K. Rowling received over 120,000 questions from Harry Potter fans - and she answered as many as she could in the time allotted.
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For all "Harry Potter" fans you now have a chance to purchase hundreds of pictures taken on the set of the movies. British company Comprints, in coordination with Warner Brothers, is offering pictures, known as 'Unit Photography' for fans with prices ranging from £5 to £40 for canvases.
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In the second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Rowling pits Harry against Tom Marvolo Riddle, the "memory" of Lord Voldemort that is within a secret diary which has possessed Ron's younger sister Ginny Weasley. When Muggle-born students are suddenly being petrified, many suspect that Harry may be behind the attacks, further alienating him from his peers. In the climax, Ginny Weasley has disappeared. To rescue her, Harry battles Riddle and the monster he controls that is hidden in the Chamber of Secrets. In the third book, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Rowling uses a time travel premise. Harry learns that his parents were betrayed to Voldemort by their friend Peter Pettigrew, who framed Harry's godfather Sirius Black for the crimes, condemning him to Azkaban prison.
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In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry started to change. He developed angry feelings because he believed Sirius Black to be responsible for the betrayal of his parents to Voldemort. Harry maintained this belief until he discovered that Black was his father's best friend, as well as Harry's godfather. Later on he found that it was not Sirius who betrayed his parents, but a servant of Lord Voldemort's named Peter Pettigrew, who was a friend of Harry's father and of Sirius. By the end of the story, Sirius offered Harry something he has wanted all his life: a home away from the Dursleys'. Harry was quick to accept, only to lose this opportunity when Sirius was forced to go on the run from the authorities, who still believed him to be a murderer.
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