Harry Potter seen as left-wing hero
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Harry Potter -- left-wing hero of the intellectual aristocracy against the materialist middle classes? Well, yes, according to the French daily Liberation.
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Leftwingers in the Liberal Democrats are attempting to take on the dominant pro-market 'Orange Book' faction, warning that the party must not emulate Labour and the Tories' 'obsession' with the private sector.
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"Harry Potter" novelist J.K. Rowling says her young hero will survive to the seventh book in her series about the young wizard, but refused to say whether he would reach adulthood.
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Millions of fans around the world are digesting the news that one of the main characters in the Harry Potter novels, Albus Dumbledore, is gay.
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The story is about a boy who lives in a cupboard (i.e. "in the closet").  His Aunt and Uncle are ashamed of him because his parents were quite eccentric (i.e. "flaming") and they are deeply concerned and afraid that he will turn out just like them.  On his 11th birthday (i.e. roughly at the onset of puberty), the boy discovers that he is actually a "wizard", different in both style and substance from normal people, or "muggles" (i.e. "breeders").  The boy is groomed into his new existence by a large, hairy bear of a man who shows Harry a hidden underground community of "wizards" living right under the noses of the general population (i.e. the gay subculture).  Harry's first trip to this subculture involves traveling through "Diagon Alley", a play on the word diagonally (i.e. not straight).
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Comment is free: Priyamvada Gopal:  Rushdie's knighthood is a reward for abandoning the anti-establishment stance he once espoused.
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As one of the millions of fans waiting eagerly for JK Rowlingâs next installment in the series, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, I was shocked to see the headlines today, that went something like, âHarry may be killed in next book!
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Harry Potter is all grown up. Daniel Radcliffe, who plays the boy wizard in the film adaptations of J.K. Rowling's best-sellers, sheds his magician's robes &#151; and everything else &#151; for his West End stage debut as a troubled stable boy in Peter Shaffer's "Equus."
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - The New York Times and the Baltimore Sun published reviews of the final Harry Potter book on Thursday before it went on sale, drawing a stinging response from author J.K. Rowling.
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Does the Harry Potter news make Scholastic a page-turner?
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Christmas came early for fans of the  fictional boy wizard Harry Potter on Tuesday, with news that  author J.K. Rowling has finished the sixth book in the series,  "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."
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Media & professional: Interview: Unpredictable and high profile, Richard Littlejohn is the the left's favourite hate figure.
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The focus of her millions of fans is on the actual contents of JK Rowling&#39;s sixth Potter saga Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
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J. K. Rowling blocked the Finnish publication of her latest Harry Potter novel on paper from Finland because it lacked the ecologically friendly certification she favors, Agence France-Presse reported. Her Finnish publisher, Tammi, said that Ms. Rowling insisted that it import paper certified by the Forest Stewardship Council as being derived from wood grown and harvested in a way that promotes sustainable forest development. Sinikka Partanen, a spokeswoman for Tammi, said the first Potter books in Finnish were printed on recycled paper. âThis time itâs a more specific demand,â she said. The Finnish-language version of âHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallowsâ is due on March 7.
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J.K. Rowling has revealed a secret about one of the main characters in her Harry Potter books: the wizard Dumbledore is gay.
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Leaks. Lawsuits. Profiteering. What a way to treat such a fine young man like Harry Potter. Despite pleas for silence from author J.K. Rowling and some leading Potter fan sites, publishing's secret of all secrets &#151; whether the wizard lives or dies &#151; is in danger of becoming plain gossip as publication approaches for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."
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Author JK Rowling gives fans a brief preview of the next Harry Potter novel, it is reported.