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Why Adults Love Harry Potter

It’s still a bit embarrassing at times, five fingers shoes , isn’t it? Someone asking you what you’re reading and you mumble “Harry Potter”. Depending on who’s asking, you’ll get a disbelieving look and “Isn’t that a children’s’ book?” in return.
But fact is that the Harry Potter series is overwhelmingly successful even with adult readers. The later books especially are exciting with a darker tone than the first two or three, and J.K. Rowling has mentioned herself that the readers are meant to grow with Harry and his friends, so that the later books are indeed written for an older target group than the earlier ones.
Some people will still be wondering – it’s about kids at school. They do magic. Big deal. What’s all the fuss about? And many times, it’s kind of tough to put one’s finger on what it is exactly that makes Harry Potter so fascinating.
One thing that’s mentioned often is the universe Rowling built. There’s this whole different world living side by side with ours, crossing it and merging with it at certain places. Rowling doesn’t invent entirely new cities for example – instead, the magical center of all things shopping is hidden right in the middle of London. You just have to know the secret code, and Diagon Alley will open up before your eyes.
Even more people find it easy to identify with one of the characters.
If you’ve been a good student and were bullied for being a know-it-all, you have no problem sympathizing with Hermione. She uses her abilities to help her friends, coach handbags outlet , and in the end she finds friendship and even love without having to dumb herself down.
Ron is the lovable but klutzy best friend. He’s one of the characters that mature a lot in the series, and if you’ve been in the shadow of the popular guy then you will love how Ron develops – and even gets the girl!
Mostly, of course, people find themselves in Harry. Rowling crafted him in a way that makes this amazingly easy. Just think – isn’t there a dark spot in everyone’s childhood, some period one was sad or something bad happened? Thankfully, most people aren’t abused like Harry was, but everyone will remember some time when they felt alone and unloved.
Everyone has at some time been in the closet under the stairs.
And then, suddenly, cheap five fingers , having someone want you so much they actually send hundreds of letters after you, and learning that you actually are special in a way you never dared to imagine – who wouldn’t dream of that?

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Watch John Carpenter’s The Ward Free Online Megavideo

The Ward is a 2010 film directed by John Carpenter. The screenplay is written by Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen. It stars Amber Heard, Danielle Panabaker, Mika Boorem, and Jared Harris. The film debuted in the UK on January 21, 2011. It is Carpenter’s first full-length feature film since Ghosts of Mars in 2001.
The story revolves around a young institutionalized woman named Kristen (Amber Heard) who is haunted by a mysterious and deadly ghost. As danger creeps closer, she comes to realize that this ghost might be darker than anything she ever could have imagined.
At the North Bend Psychiatric Hospital in 1966, a young patient named Tammy is attacked and killed by an unseen force during the night.
The next day, Kristen (Amber Heard), a beautiful but troubled young woman, finds herself bruised and cut, whilst setting fire to an abandoned farmhouse. The local police find her and take her to the psychiatric hospital.
She is taken to the ward where she meets the other patients that reside there, Iris (Lyndsy Fonseca), Sarah (Danielle Panabaker), Emily (Mamie Gummer), and Zoey (Laura Leigh). She is given Tammy’s old room and is given medication so that she can rest for the night. While Kristen sleeps, her blanket is mysteriously pulled under the bed. Waking up to retrieve her blanket, Kristen finds a broken charm bracelet.
The next morning, she meets Dr Stringer (Jared Harris). In his office, Dr Stringer tells Kristen that she had the address of the farmhouse written on her hand and asks about the fire and what she remembers. Kristen is unable recall anything and insists that she is not crazy. Later that night, she attempts to escape only to be caught by one of the orderlies and returned to her cell. Waking up in the middle of the night, Kristen catches a glimpse of a horribly disfigured figure who was staring at her through her door window.
While in the courtyard with Iris and Emily, Kristen sees two people looking at her from Dr Stringer’s office. The girls give no clue as to who they are, only to tell Kristen that they have been there before many times. Whilst taking a shower, Kristen is suddenly attacked by the disfigured figure. However, upon telling the nurse this, she is drugged and put through intense electroshock therapy.
Dr Stringer runs a therapy session with all of the girls, where Tammy’s existence is briefly mentioned but quickly dismissed. Iris attends her last therapy session with Dr Stringer where he uses hypnotherapy to unlock Iris’ hidden memories. After the session, Iris is kidnapped and killed by the disfigured figure.
Kristen, concerned about Iris, confronts the girls and staff about her disappearance but everybody keeps quiet. Kristen finds Iris’ sketchbook and looks through all of the drawings to find a picture of a girl named Alice and another picture of the ghostly figure that had attacked her previously, with the name Alice Hudson at the top of its page. Retrieving the broken bracelet, Kristen pieces together the letters, which spells out the name ‘ALICE’.
Kristen confronts Dr Stringer and tries to convince him that the ghost of Alice Hudson is haunting the girls. Dr Stringer denies the existence of a ghost and cryptically tells her that she needs to find the answers out for herself. Kristen confronts the girls about Alice where Emily confesses that Alice was once a patient at the hospital but that she got out. That night, Kristen and Emily attempt to escape the ward. Their escape is discovered and the alarm is raised. Kristen makes it to the front entrance of the hospital but Alice’s ghost appears in front of her, causing her to fall over in fright. Kristen blacks out and awakens back in her room the next morning. It is revealed that Emily was caught by the orderlies during the escape.
On her way to her final appointment with Dr Stringer, Sarah is attacked and killed by Alice’s ghost. Kristen finds out from Zoey and Emily that all of the girls killed Alice Hudson because she did bad things to them all and her ghost is now after them for revenge. Emily breaks down and, with the help of Alice’s ghost, commits suicide. Kristen plans a last ditch attempt to escape by holding Zoey hostage. Her attempt is thwarted by an orderly and Dr Stringer. Kristen is drugged and placed in a straitjacket inside her room. However, she manages to escape and takes Zoey with her. They are both pursued by the orderlies and the ghost throughout the hospital. Zoey is captured by the ghost in a service lift.
After pursuing Kristen through Dr Stringer’s office, Kristen manages to kill the ghost. Returning the the office to look for Zoey, Kristen finds a file on Alice Hudson, which details her treatments and all of the girls names, including Kristen’s.
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Dr Stringer enters and reveals the truth to Kristen: Her real name is Alice Hudson. Throughout the film, various flashbacks are shown of a young girl in chains, about to be abused by an unknown man. It is revealed that the girl in the flashback is Alice herself, who was kidnapped from her home 8 years previously. Alice was left chained up for months in the basement of the same farmhouse ‘Kristen’ had burned down. It is then revealed that Alice is suffering from multiple personality disorder, creating Zoey, Sarah, Iris and Emily. Over time Alice’s own personality became so overwhelmed by that of the others that she became lost. Through experimental techniques, Dr Stringer explains that her treatments were working until ‘Kristen’ appeared. ‘Kristen’ is yet another invention of Alice’s mind to protect itself from reliving the trauma at the farmhouse. Dr Stringer had used hypnotherapy in an attempt to reawaken Alice’s memories. After this revelation, Alice’s ghost reappears and throws herself and ‘Kristen’ out of the window, reawakening Alice.
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It is revealed that the people who were looking at ‘Kristen’ earlier were in fact Alice’s parents and have come to take her home under supervision. After gathering her belongings, Alice takes one last look around her room. Upon opening her wall cabinet, ‘Kristen’ suddenly comes out and attacks her.3
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Your Highness

Upcoming movie, �Your Highness,� which features, among other things, the severed penis of a Minotaur as a trophy, sinks from low to lower in the first five minutes of the new movie.
One big surprise of this movie picture is that David Gordon Green agreed to be the director. After directing �George Washington� and �All the Real Girls,� he looked like he had a great future. Another surprise is that Green and producer of �Your Highness,� Scott Stuber, managed to talk such an impressive cast into working on this new movie release. Box office will be iffy.
Mel Brooks was known for making this type of spoof of genre movies look easy. Monty Python�s troupe were the masters of the medieval fantasy. Green is fantasy clueless and he really shouldn�t have listened to his buddy Danny McBride who co-wrote, co-produced and starred in what he calls his �twisted tale.� �Your Highness� falls totally flat.
The set design is savvy and the images, filmed in Northern Ireland, are striking, and there is a plethora of digital effects. The characters wander around the landscape on some ill-defined quest that ends up being a contest as to who has the dirtiest mouth. The only special effects that men are going to remember are the semi-naked, sand-painted women in one vignette.
Danny McBride is Thadeous, the second son of the king who plays second-fiddle to his younger brother, Fabius, played by James Franco who�s even duller here than in his Oscar hosting gig. Rasmus Hardiker plays servant Courtney, Thadeous� rather stupid companion. Belladonna, played by Zooey Deschanel , Fabious� intended bride, looks rather confused, and is kidnapped by Justin Therous, playing an evil wizard. Charles Dance, the king, insists that Thadeous join Fabius on his quest to get Belladonna back.
On their quest they meet Natalie Portman who plays a lady warrior who flips and pirouettes her way to joining the little band, which has been betrayed by friends played by Toby Jones and Damian Lewis. There�s also a mechanical bird named Simon � you have to wonder what movie genre he materialized from.
The filmmakers have hidden the joke in this movie very well. McBride smokes dope and masturbates on his trek through the forest while making stupid wise-cracks. Any laughs he receives are because his lines are pathetic.
Tech credits are excellent against anything else that anyone else in the movie has accomplished.

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