Take one piece of wire and cut it to around 12 inches (30.48 cm) long with the wire cutters. Find the center point and bend slightly to mark its place. Curve the wire by running it between your ...

Preheat oven to 425 °F. Lightly grease baking tray. Sift flour and salt. Using pastry blender, cut margarine or butter into the flour. Add sugar, dried fruit and orange rind. Stir in egg.

US 6 (4 mm) or US 8 (5 mm) 12-16" (30.5 cm - 40.6 cm) circular needle, size dependent on gauge ...

Read the archived discussion on this essay here. Harry Potter is a character with whom almost all readers can identify. He is (mostly) honest and kind; he doesn’t choose friends who are the ...

In case you don't have any snake-headed canes lying around, you're going to need to make your own using a wooden dowel and some Sculpey. Lucius wears his platinum blond hair long and out of his face.

This essay was sparked by recent press 1 surrounding the Laura Mallory controversy over campaigns to essentially ban or restrict the accessibility of the Harry Potter books in U.S. schools.

Place the topper on a spare piece of florist wire and use this to place it in the ground. This will enable you to cover it fully with very little mess. Spray paint topper gold. Using the heavy ...

We know that one of the truisms in the Harry Potter universe is that J.K. Rowling will keep pounding something into our heads until the light bulb goes off further down the line, sometimes even ...

Some would say that Harry Potter is a Bildungsroman story, about the growth of the protagonist (Harry) from childhood to adulthood. Others argue that it is a fantasy story containing a quest ...

In 1969, Neo-Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser published an essay entitled "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses' in which he proposed a new way of looking at the concept of ideology.

Finding the Cup just happens to be an added bonus. In the maze Harry encounters many different obstacles, all of which test his knowledge and abilities. Among these is a giant sphinx who asks ...

There can be no doubt that the events at the conclusion of J.K. Rowling's latest installment of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, have sent the entire Potter fan ...