Sentences with phrase «of muggles»

At the end of last week, Nokia began dispatching the N8 handset to those who had pre-ordered the phone from their online store where the rest of the muggles can start buying their own N8 soon.

Attention, ye legions of muggles and squibs: a Harry Potter - themed trivia night is coming to San Francisco this summer.

While the original Potter films made an incredible fuss of anyone using magic in the non-magical, «Muggle» world — even to clean dishes or cook dinner with magic in the presence of muggles was a grave offence — here, open use is all but permitted and seemingly not worth much mentioning.

From the opening section, which finds Harry fending off an attack by Dementors in a storm sewer near his neighborhood and running afoul of wizard rules prohibiting spell - casting in the presence of Muggles, through the installation of a chillingly polite authoritarian named Dolores Umbridge (Imelda Staunton) as Hogwarts» new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and future grand inquisitor, to the near - collapse of the wizard world's governing body, the increasingly ossified and timid Ministry of Magic, Phoenix is steeped in a mix of fear and futility confirmed by the movie's visuals, photographed by cinematographer Slawomir Idziak.

Let's start with the basics: In Fantastic Beasts, set in America circa 1926, the non-magical sort are called No - Majs instead of Muggles, and this era is plagued not by Voldemort but by the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald, who has vanished after terrorizing half of Europe.

At times, the dialogue stops and unloads for exposition dumps, and a few of the young cast mates could use some more training back in the land of the Muggles.

Perhaps I am just studying the interactions of muggles because I find it fascinating.

That's not realistic, or even humanly possible for many of us muggles.

JK Rowling's talent of creating memorable characters who, despite being wizards and witches with extraordinary powers, go through the same triumphs and tribulations of any Muggle adolescent, is just one reason why the Harry Potter series will forever be a YA classic.

If you know of a muggle who's been a Harry Potter fan for a while, or a young reader who hasn't experienced the wizarding world yet, these beautiful illustrated versions are the perfect gift.

With reluctant Lucius Malfoy's (Jason Isaacs) borrowed wand, Voldemort demonstrated its power (with an Avada Kedavra curse) and killed bound and upside - down levitating Hogwarts Professor Charity Burbage (Carolyn Pickles) of Muggle Studies, before feeding her corpse as dinner to Voldemort's snake Nagini.

The fifth and final chapter of A Muggle's Guide to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

Not exact matches

Arthur Weasley, of course, is the muggle - obsessed husband of Molly and patriarch.

Before you started reading this gem of an article, you may have been tempted to be like the Money Muggle.

In J.K. Rowling's screenwriting debut, 70 years before Harry Potter ever arrives at Hogwarts, another cast of characters in the Wizarding World is tasked with keeping their adventures safe from the muggle world.

In the second installment of the Fantastic Beasts series, magizoologist Newt Scamander joins forces with young Albus Dumbledore to prevent Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) from raising pure - blood wizards to rule over the muggles.

Why not take a leap of faith that magic exists and that most people are muggles, or that vampires exist and that we might all meet some sparkly - skinned dreamboat some day?

You may recognize «Fizzing Whizzbee» as the password to Dumbledore's office, but the muggle version is a box full of «chocolate fizzy fruits» according to the package — AKA bee - shaped chocolates with Pop Rocks.

To live the dream myself, I indulged my inner Ravenclaw (just kidding, I'm obviously a Hufflepuff) and stuffed my muggle maw at the Three Broomsticks and Honeydukes at WWoHP Hollywood until I ballooned to the size of Hagrid.

Now you can actually get your muggle hands on it — along with a Puking Pastille, Chocolate Frogs, and the other food and drinks from J.K. Rowling's universe — at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, which now has locations in Orlando, Osaka, and Hollywood.

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I've various Muggle ways of meeting people and nothing has worked out.

On Dating For Muggles, there's «no Felix Felicis or other spells required» to catch the eye of a fellow Potterhead.

I'm looking for a muggle prince that shares my love of Harry and other similar genres.

Dating For Muggles is part of the Online Connections dating network, which includes many other general and gamer dating sites.

Fun loving muggle who loves her anime, Star Wars and any other nerd type thing you can think of!

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Lily Luna Potter (b. c. 2008) was a half - blood witch, the youngest child and only daughter of... Lily J. Potter (née Evans)(30 January, 1960 — 31 October, 1981) was a Muggle - born witch, the...

Harry is offered a place at prestigious Hogwarts, a boarding school for wizards that exists in a realm of magic and fantasy outside the dreary existence of normal humans or «Muggles.»

However, the sheer amount of travelling, planning and stealth required for numerous missions doesn't lend itself to online co-op with random drop - in muggles.

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.

The escape of some of Newt's fantastic beasts could spell trouble for both the wizarding and muggle worlds.

She's menaced Muggles, dominated Downton and now found a new vehicle as Alan Bennett's muse in The Lady in the Van, but here's the best of Maggie Smith's less well - known work

But ultimately, this movie's not for Muggles like me — it's for the millions and millions of Harry Potter fans who, quibbles aside, will welcome its arrival as a blessed event.

In America, he soon learns, Muggles are called «No - Maj» s and the struggle is just as real between them and those schooled in the existence of magic.

Bill Nighy, making an unsmiling series debut as Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour, sets the mood in the first frame: «These are dark times,» we are told, and with Death Eaters terrorizing the countryside, murdering Muggles and Mudbloods for sport, it's hard to argue.

Telling a story so rife with exposition and characters, saddled with the narrative weight of six previous chapters, Deathly Hallows is likely to confuse uninitiated Muggles.

«Fantastic Beasts» follows preeminent magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), who arrives in 1926 New York City, where something mysterious leaves a path of destruction through the streets, threatening to expose the wizarding world to the Second Salemers, a radical group of No - Majs (the American term for Muggles) determined to eradicate them.

Something mysterious is leaving a path of destruction in the streets, threatening to expose the wizarding community to the Second Salemers, American Muggles bent on eradicating wizards and witches.

Moody subplots about anti-witch factions and powerful muggle politicians feel so disjointed from the thrust of Scamander's story that they're nearly forgotten before they jut back into the finale.

Adults who would sooner use diminishing brain - cell capacity to store more pertinent information can tell you who teaches Muggle Studies at Hogwarts, the uses of gillyweed and the difference between a grindylow and a blast - ended skrewt.

There's more of London here (including a lovely little scene in a regular café where Harry and Ron have no idea how to order a muggle drink).

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them introduced «no - maj» as the American term for muggle, someone who in the world of Harry Potter lacks any magical ability.

Rupert Grint's mop of red hair will always be iconic in both the magical and muggle worlds, thanks to his role as Ron Weasely in the «Harry Potter» movies.

While the nonmagical muggles — or no - majs, as they are called stateside — live in blissful ignorance of the wizards and witches among them, the promise of peaceful coexistence, always precarious even in the best of times, has come under extremist threats from within and without.

Joining him are a pair of wizarding sisters (played by Katherine Waterstone and Alison Sudol) as well as a muggle (Dan Fogler, perhaps the most curious casting of them all)-- together they must... well, it's unclear still.

Instead of saying goodbye to her muggle parents, she removes herself from the pictures hanging on the walls.

Over a thousand Muggles, No - majs and wizards flocked to Yonge - Dundas Square to celebrate the magic of the upcoming theatrical release.

Something mysterious is leaving a path of destruction in the streets, threatening to expose the wizarding community to the No - Majs (American for Muggles), including the Second Salemers, a fanatical faction bent on eradicating them.

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.