Gandalf the Grey

Gandalf was an Istar. Istari were Maiar that were hand-picked by the Valar to help aid the peoples of Middle-earth in the fight against evil. The Istari (Men called them wizards) took the form of Men but possessed much greater physical and mental power.

For over 2000 years, Gandalf the Grey worked against the rising powers of evil in Middle-earth.

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Quidditch

Quidditch is a fictional sport developed by J. K. Rowling for the Harry Potter book series. It is described as an extremely rough but very popular semi-contact sport played by wizards and witches around the world. Matches are played between two teams of seven players riding flying broomsticks, using four balls and six elevated ring-shaped goals. In the Harry Potter universe, Quidditch holds a fervent following similar to football as a globally popular sport.

The game features in every Harry Potter book but the seventh, as Harry Potter plays an important position for his house team at Hogwarts. Regional and international competitions are mentioned in the series. Though in Deathly Hallows Harry is too busy fighting for his life to play Quidditch, on three key occasions in that book—getting hold of the Hufflepuff Cup and the Ravenclaw's Diadem, and during the final fight with Voldemort—the "unerring skill of the Seeker" is vitally useful to him in snatching an object out of the air.

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School Harry Potter

Whether you get there in a flying car, or by taking the Hogwarts Express train from Platform 9¾, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a school in a castle that all fans of Harry Potter know as well as, or in many cases, better than their own classrooms.

"Founded over a thousand years ago - the precise date is uncertain - by the four greatest witches and wizards of the age" ...the students are divided into four school houses named after the founders - Godric GRYFFINDOR, Helga HUFFLEPUFF, Rowena RAVENCLAW, and Salazar SLYTHERIN.

Populated by young wizards, teaching wizards, ghosts and other fantastic creatures the one thing you can always count on is that there will be adventure and magic mixed with the lessons and quidditch games.

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The Best Harry Potter

Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the eponymous adolescent wizard Harry Potter, together with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, his friends from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The central story arc concerns Harry's struggle against the evil wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents in his quest to conquer the wizarding world and subjugate non-magical (Muggle) people to his rule. Several successful derivative films, video games and other themed merchandise have been based upon the series.

Since the 1997 release of the first novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which was retitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States, the books have gained immense popularity, critical acclaim and commercial success worldwide. As of June 2008, the book series has sold more than 400 million copies and has been translated into 67 languages, and the last four books have consecutively set records as the fastest-selling books in history.

English-language versions of the books are published by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom, Scholastic Press in the United States, Allen & Unwin in Australia, and Raincoast Books in Canada. Thus far, the first five books have been made into a series of motion pictures by Warner Bros. The sixth, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, is scheduled for release on 17 July 2009. The series also originated much tie-in merchandise, making the Harry Potter brand worth £7 billion (US$15 billion).