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Though the news is difficult for him to absorb, this revelation does explain some of the odd things that have happened to him, such as the shocking ability to communicate with a boa constrictor in the London Zoo’s reptile exhibit. Harry is invited to study magic at a special school, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. There he finds that wizards and witches (in Rowling’s books, witches are female wizards) reside in the same world as nonmagical humans known as Muggles. However, the magical population is largely able to hide its activities from the Muggles.
The golden snitch, a magical golden ball with wings that flies around on its own in the books, is part of Muggle Quidditch, too. However, in the Muggle version it consists of a tennis ball stuffed into a sock, carried by a cross-country runner dressed all in bright yellow or gold and sometimes wearing wings. When the runner is released along the sidelines, players from both teams may try to capture the snitch for a quick thirty points. “I always loved the Quidditch aspect [of Harry Potter] and really wanted someone to turn it into an awesome video game,” says Alicia Radford, a student at the University of Washington, “but when I heard about Muggle Quidditch at Middlebury, I was enchanted.
His fascinating toys need interaction with the user to reach their full potential, and they range from special helicopters with hands-free remote controls to a stringless Yo-Yo and an assortment of Mr. Wizard, a science-based voice-recognition mechanical animals such as television show for children, owls, bears, and even guide dogs. ran from 1954 to 1965 and A more recent wizardly television series is The was cited by the National Wizards of Waverly Place, which ran for four seaScience Foundation for sons on the Disney Channel from October 2007 increasing youth interest in to January 2012.