Sentences with phrase «muggles what»

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The scenes in the muggle world look like a dodgy American take on what a typical British household might look like: for all the charm of the late Richard Griffiths, it still feels too chocolate - box to cut the mustard.

«What Hogwarts is to magic, Tomorrowland is to science: They are both easy to find if you are a wizard and very difficult to find if you're a Muggle,» Lindelof tells EW.

In a move that seems both narratively practical and winkingly pointed, Fantastic Beasts is an immigrant story from its first scene, as British - born - and - bred Scamander arrives at 1926 Ellis Island and amusingly makes it through customs without declaring to the Muggle there what he's really packing.

I can't imagine fans of the book will be too disappointed — enough box office takings to buy the moon disproves any uncertainty along those lines — though the few Muggles out there who never got what all the fuss is about aren't about to experience any epiphanies.

I don't know what exactly I was expecting when I decided to go to my first annual Quidditch World Cup in Manhattan (featuring Muggle Quidditch teams of various high schools and universities from both US and Canada, including Harvard, Yale, NYU and McGill), but it was probably something less violent than what I saw, due to a part of my consciousness still identifying the Harry Potter universe as a product of innocent children's literature.

Nonetheless, uninitiated «muggles» like yours truly need not be familiar with the inscrutable lexicon to appreciate the fact that what's about to unfold is a classic showdown between the forces of good and evil over the very fate of the world.

His use of magic on a Muggle (called a «No - Maj» — pronounced «no - madge» — in America) draws the attention of a local inspector, Tina Goldstein (a very fine Katherine Waterston, Inherent Vice), and what should have been a simple extraction mission quickly blows up into a major flash point between ordinary humans and wizards.

Something was already wrong in the U.S. wizarding community, leading to hostilities between witches and wizards and No - Majs (what the Yanks call Muggles, or nonmagical people).

«Sony Muggles Name Smartphone» «So, we wondered what moniker the naming wizards at Sony would conjure up for their latest smartphone, code - named Hermione.