Sentences with phrase «young wizard»

The story revolves around a group of young wizards in training.

This second installment in the Harry Potter series finds young wizard Harry Potter (Radcliffe) and his friends Ron (Grint) and Hermione (Watson) facing new challenges during their second year at Hogwarts as they try to discover a dark force that is terrorizing the school.

Will.i.am, member of the Black Eyed Peas and space - explorer, is looking to jump on board the reality tv train with his own idea: «an American Idol for young wizards.»

I'll agree the title Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them is a little long, but so was the wait for J.K. Rowling's series about young wizards.

When her Ministry - approved course leaves young wizards woefully unprepared to protect themselves against the dark forces threatening them, Hermione and Ron urge Harry to take charge.

Young wizards attending Hogwarts are enjoying the second installment of the Chamber of Secrets, which encompasses chapters five to eleven.

Will the likes of the The Secret of Hades» Eden be next?The random winds of popularity have blown young wizards to our media shores, followed by teen vampires.

This is the case for Hufflepuff Williams and its very young wizard Lance Stroll, who has shaken off the preconception that he was only on the grid because of a lofty Gringott's bank account.

But Rowling adeptly combines the two roles of hero and victim: Harry Potter is not only a very talented young wizard but also a scarred orphan with abusive foster - parents, mortal enemies, mean teachers and malicious classmates.

If Albus were to be made a Slytherin, Harry reassured him: «Then Slytherin House will have gained a wonderful young wizard.»

When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self - indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.

Meeting secretly with a small group of students who name themselves «Dumbledore's Army,» Harry teaches them how to defend themselves against the Dark Arts and prepares the courageous young wizards for the extraordinary battle that lies ahead.

The trailers seemed to offer a new, darker perspective to our bespectacled, young wizard so I was certainly intrigued by the prospect.

Much of the movie's amusement comes from young wizards talking about love and attraction.

Launching with two online experiences that allow users to enter Harry's world as avatars and go exploring, the Pottermore creation for Playstation Home will take participants exploring through the famed wizard market of Diagon Alley and for a ride on the mysterious Hogwarts Express, the train that carries young wizards to the secret school.

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Rowling pioneered a parallel race / universe featuring young wizards.

Who says the area under your stairs has to be a no man's land for stashing cardboard boxes, empty suitcases or the occasional young wizard?

The whole infrastructure of young wizards / demigods / vampires is getting tiresome.

The final battle between the evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) and young wizard Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) takes place in «The Deathly Hallows — Part 2.»

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The random winds of popularity have blown young wizards to our media shores, followed by teen vampires.

In the case of Harry Potter, NBCUniversal has snatched the television and theme park rights to the young wizard's story away from the existing licensee, entertainment giant Walt Disney Co. (DIS).

She began writing about her now famous character, the young wizard, Harry Potter, in Edinburgh cafés, and received «loads» of rejections from book publishers when she first sent out the manuscript, The Guardian reports.

In the world of Harry Potter the young wizard undergoes two magical biological transformations: eating Gillyweed to grow gills in order to breathe underwater and drinking Skele - Gro to repair broken bones.

In J. K. Rowling's blockbuster novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the young wizard Harry receives an invisibility cloak: a silky garment that makes him disappear.

In honor of the creator of our favorite young wizard (and the young wizard himself), here are 15 quotes from Rowling and the series.

So here we are, at the conclusion of the young wizard's tale.

As the death toll mounts, the young wizard comes to understand that he alone has the ability to stop the senseless carnage and keep Voldemort from gaining immortality — but to do so will require the ultimate sacrifice.

Based on the books by J.K. Rowling, the eight - part movie phenomenon follows the life of the young wizard Harry Potter, his friends at Hogwarts, and his endless battle to defeat the most notorious dark wizard of all time, Lord Voldemort.

Grandma Sophie's romantic feelings for Howl (Christian Bale), the young wizard and master of the moving castle, periodically make her look 18 again — to us and to herself, if not to the other characters.

Now, the death of Professor Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) has the young wizard's life in even more danger.

Or maybe it's just that, five films into the series, we've all become so invested in the fortunes of our young wizard hero, his pals and their instructors at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

The three leads do a good job as the young wizards in training, and the Hogwarts staff are as appealing as ever.

Now adults, the young wizards are struggling with a different evil during the picture, with Yates depicting a frighteningly violent realm of casualty and jealousy, upping the bloodletting and sexual unease to communicate mature fears, far removed from the endearing childish antics of the previous installments.

Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.

As if responding to critics who dismissed Part 1 as a languid slog through the quieter passages of Rowling's sprawling last chapter, Yates wastes little time before thrusting his young wizards into the fire, with a visually arresting raid on the Gringotts Bank that sets the tempo for all that follows.

This saga of a young wizard coming of age, based on J.K. Rowling's wildly successful literary series, is finally reaching its end.

- the twee JM Barrie biopic which charmed its way to a number of Oscar nominations in 2004 - or perhaps it has something to do with a young wizard recently making the name Potter very fashionable among both literary and cinematic circles.

While fans of Harry Potter would argue that they could do the same with each and every one of their beloved series» books / movies, Hunger Games seems to be a little more grounded in reality and conducive to thinking, whereas complex and magnificent though they often may be, the Potter tales break down a little more neatly into standard good vs. evil morality, the young wizards» adventures being less relevant to our own.

Rupert Grint finds it very hard to «separate» himself from Ron Weasley.The 28 - year - old actor shot to fame playing the young wizard in the...

Angus Imrie, best known for «The Archers», plays the young wizard Merlin, with Patrick Stewart as the older version whilst Rebecca Ferguson («The White Queen») plays the evil Morgana.

It's perhaps odd that one has to go back to the tale of a boy and his beanstalk to find something fresh in filmmaking for adolescents, but we're at least here absolved of sparkly vampires, young wizards, or whatever comic book hero is next to be trotted out on screen.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Rated PG - 13 for some fantasy action violence Rotten Tomatoes Score: 73 % In this Harry Potter spinoff prequel, and going off of a JK Rowling screenplay, a young wizard named Newt Scamander shows up in New York City to rescue some magical creatures when he happens upon a situation within the wizarding world of America that needs his help.

Alfonso Cuarón (director) is in a painting scolding Harry for his candle light when the young wizard is searching for Peter Pettigrew in the hallway.

Without any siblings to help him, a young wizard relies on his friends when he is orphaned in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

Exhibiting the demeanor of a strict Catholic school nun, this no - nonsense disciplinarian orders a new defensive approach to magic likely to leave the young wizards vulnerable to an attack from the Dark Arts, especially if Voldemort has really somehow been revived and returned to power.