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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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“Tomorrow night Halloween the Goblet will return the names of the three it has judged most worthy  to represent their schools.”

Albus Dumbledore

The Goblet of Fire is a rough wooden goblet which fills with blue flames when it is time for it to choose champions of the Triwizard Tournament.

In order to make the selection of champions completely fair, the decision is left up to a very powerful magic artifact, the Goblet of Fire. The Goblet is contained in a ancient wooden chest which is encrusted with jewels. When the casket it tapped three times with a wand, it opens. The Goblet is then removed and set on top of the chest. gf.c16-the-goblet-of-fire-200x0-c-default

The Goblet of Fire is a large, roughly hewn wooden cup, filled to the brim with dancing blue flames.

In order to make the selection of champions completely fair, the decision is left up to a very powerful magic artifact, the Goblet of Fire. The Goblet is contained in a ancient wooden chest which is encrusted with jewels. When the casket it tapped three times with a wand, it opens. The Goblet is then removed and set on top of the chest.

The Goblet of Fire is a large, roughly hewn cup, filled to the brim with dancing blue flames. Dumbledore described the selection process in this way:

Goblet”Anybody wishing to submit themselves as champion must write their name and school clearly upon a slip of parchment and drop it into the goblet. Aspiring champions have twenty-four hours in which to put their names forward. Tomorrow night, Halloween, the goblet will return the names of the three it has judged most worthy to represent their schools. The goblet will be placed in the entrance hall tonight, where it will be freely accessible to all those wishing to compete. To ensure that no underage student yields to temptation, I will be drawing an Age Line around the Goblet of Fire once it has been placed in the entrance hall. Nobody under the age of seventeen will be able to cross this line…I wish to impress upon any of you wishing to compete that this tournament is not to be entered into lightly. Once a champion has been selected by the Goblet of Fire, he or she is obliged to see the tournament through to the end. The placing of your name in the goblet constitutes a binding, magical contract. There can be no change of heart once you have become a champion. Please be very sure, therefore, that you are wholeheartedly prepared to play before you drop your name into the goblet.”

The next evening, the Goblet was taken into the Great Hall after the Halloween Feast. On cue, it disgorged a slip of paper for each chosen champion. To everyone’s shock, the Goblet chose FOUR champions. Barty Crouch jr., in disguise as Moody, had used a Confundus Charm on the Goblet to trick it into accepting a name from another school. Once the names had been chosen, the Goblet’s flames died out and would not reignite until the next Tournament.

 

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Harry potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J. K. Rowling, is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. It is the second book in the series of seven Harry Potter books.

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Chapter 1: The Worst Birthday

“No cards, no presents, and he would be spending the evening pretending not to exist.“
—Description of Harry’s 12th Birthday
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Harry Potter has returned to the Dursleys for the summer holiday in mid-1992, and things are very bad for him. Over the summer, the Dursleys have become so fearful of Harry’s new-found magical abilities that they have locked away all of Harry’s magical supplies (e.g. his wand, his broomstick, spellbooks, etc.) immediately after his arrival home. They have also banned Harry from saying words such as “magic” in the house, as evident in Uncle Vernon’s outburst at breakfast. This has become a problem for Harry himself, who begins to worry about what his teachers at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry will think if he heads back to them without back homework done, and whether or not he’ll be banned from the Gryfindor House Quidditch team since he has not been able to practise. The only thing the Dursleys let him keep in his room, however, is his pet snowy owl Hedwig, but have put a padded lock on her cage to keep her inside day and night to avoid suspicion from the neighbours. This does not go well for the bird, because every time she has become bored, her screech has rung throughout the house, causing an irritated Vernon to warn Harry that if he cannot control her, she will have to go.

On 31 July (Harry’s twelfth birthday), Harry has never felt so lonely, for he misses Hogwarts and his best friends there, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Neither of them have written to him all summer, not even to send birthday wishes. The Dursleys seem to have also forgotten his birthday, because they are too busy preparing for a dinner party meant for one of Uncle Vernon’s clients, Mr Mason, from whom Vernon is hoping to get a huge order. The only unchangeable thing on the Dursley’s schedule, however, is that Harry has to stay in his room for the night, making no noise and “pretending he doesn’t exist”. While Uncle Vernon and Dudley are preparing to drive into town to buy dinner jackets, Harry himself goes out into the garden in order to stay out of his Aunt Petunia’s way as she is cleaning, singing happy birthday to himself. He stares into the hedge, and sits bolt upright when he sees a pair of enormous green eyes staring back at him among the leaves. When Dudley comes waddling over and wishes his cousin a happy birthday, mocking him with the lack of celebrations. Harry gets annoyed and scares him away by pretending to think of a spell meant to bur the bush bare out loud, but Petunia comes out when Dudley calls for her and beats her nephew with a soapy frying pan. She then gives Harry some chores to do while Vernon and Dudley are gone, and once he is finished, it’s almost a half-hour before the Masons are due to arrive. Harry goes up to his room without making a sound during the party as promised, but when he gets there, someone else is on his bed.

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Quidditch – Kutaisi Winner 2017/2018

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2018 წლის 10-11 თებერვალს გაიმართა იმერეთის რეგიონში, Quidditch: Intellectual Competition for Schools 2018. იმერეთის რეგიონის ტურის გამარჯვებული გახდა კადეტთა ლიცეუმის მიერ წარმოდგენილი გუნდი BLANK-ი და მისი მასწავლებელი ქალბატონი იზაბელა კილასონია, რომლებმაც ნამდვილად კარგი თამაში აჩვენეს და შესარჩევი ტურიდან დანარჩენ 9 გუნდთან ერთად ითამაშეს ნახევარ ფინალში, სადაც მათ დააგროვეს 8 ქულა და გადავიდნენ ფინალში.

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ფინალში ითამაშა 5-მა გუნდმა, სადაც BLANK – მა დააგროვა 11 ქულა, გახდა იმერეთის გამარჯვებული და მოიპოვა სუპერ ფინალში თამაშის უფლება, სადაც ისინი დაუპირისპირდებიან თბილისის ტურის გამარჯვებულს და ასევე აჭარის რეგიონის გამარჯვებულს.

 

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5 Things You Might Not Know About Harry Potter

5 Things You Might Not Know About Harry Potter

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1. ROWLING AND HARRY SHARE A BIRTHDAY.

They both blow out candles on July 31 (happy birthday, JKR!). And that’s not the only influence Rowling had on her characters: She’s said that Hermione is a bit like her when she was younger, and her favorite animal is an otter—which is, of course, Hermione’s patronus. Plus, both Dumbledore and Rowling like sherbet lemons (Rowling said that the wizard’s “got good taste”).

2. EARLY ON, ROWLING WROTE A SKETCH OF THE FINAL CHAPTER OF THE FINAL BOOK.

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Rowling calls the idea that she had the first chapter of Deathly Hallowswritten and locked away in the safe “rubbish.” But there was a small element of truth to it: “I had, very early on—but not the first day or anything, probably within the first year of writing—I wrote a sketch for what I thought the final chapter would be,” she told Harry Potter’s big screen portrayer, Daniel Radcliffe, in an interview for the Deathly Hallows Part 2 DVD extra features. “I always knew—and this was from really early on—that I was working toward the point where Hagrid carried Harry, alive but supposedly dead, out of the forest, always. I knew we were always working towards a final battle at Hogwarts, I knew that Harry would walk to his death, I planned the ghosts—for want of a better word—coming back, that they would walk with him into the forest,  we would all believe he was walking to his death, and he would emerge in Hagrid’s arms.”

And that mental image is what kept Hagrid alive, despite the fact that he “would have been a natural to kill in some ways,” Rowling said. “But because I always cleaved to this mental image of Hagrid being the one carrying Harry out … That was so perfect for me, because it was Hagrid who and took him into the world, and Hagrid who would bring him back … That’s where we were always going. Hagrid was never in danger.”

3. THE WIZARDING WORLD’S PLANTS COME FROM A REAL BOOK.

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“I used to collect names of plants that sounded witchy,” she told 60 Minutes, “and then I found this, Culpeper’s Complete Herbal, and it was the answer to my every prayer: flax weed, toadflax, fleawort, Gout-wort, grommel, knotgrass, Mugwort.” The book was penned in the 17th century by English botanist and herbalist Nicholas Culpeper; you can read it here.

4. A PROPOSED TITLE FOR THE AMERICAN VERSION OF PHILOSOPHER’S STONE WAS HARRY POTTER AND THE SCHOOL OF MAGIC.

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Rowling turned that down, saying,

according to American publisher Arthur Levine, “No—that doesn’t feel right to me … What if we called it the Sorcerer’s Stone?” (The French edition, Levine points out in J.K. Rowling: A Bibliography, is called Harry Potter a L’ecole Des Sorciers.)

5. ROWLING MADE COMPLICATED OUTLINES FOR THE BOOKS.

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You can see a partial outline for Order of the Phoenix above. The outline has chapter titles, a general outline of the plot, and then more specific plot points for certain characters. (Based on this outline, it looks like Rowling thought about calling Dolores Umbridge Elvira Umbridge instead!)

 

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban illustrated edition

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The third book in the bestselling Harry Potter series, now illustrated in glorious full color by award-winning artist Jim Kay!

For twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort.
Now he has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter’s defeat of You-Know-Who was Black’s downfall as well. And the Azkaban guards heard Black muttering in his sleep, “He’s at Hogwarts . . . he’s at Hogwarts.”
Harry Potter isn’t safe, not even within the walls of his magical school, surrounded by his friends. Because on top of it all, there may well be a traitor in their midst.

 

Praise for Jim Kay’s illustrations:

“I love seeing Jim Kay’s interpretation of Harry Potter’s world, and I feel honored and grateful that he continues to lend his talent to it.” — J.K. Rowling

“It’s all that an old-fashioned book aficionado could wish for . . . Is this, one wonders, the sort of book found at Diagon Alley’s Flourish and Blotts or in the Hogwarts library? Kay’s illustrations, freshly re-envisioning the story, range from spot images to dramatic double page spreads, all pulsating with color and vitality. This gorgeous volume is sure to please all, from Harry Potter neophytes to longtime fans.” — New York Times Book Review

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hellows

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the seventh and final novel of the Harry Potter series. The book was released on 21 July 2007, ending the series that began in 1997 with the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. It was published by Bloomsbury Publishing in the United Kingdom, in the United States by Scholastic, and in Canada by Raincoast Books. The novel chronicles the events directly following Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005), and the final confrontation between the wizards Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort.

 

 

Throughout the six previous novels in the series, the titular character Harry Potter has struggled with the difficulties of adolescence along with being famous as the only wizard to survive the Killing Curse. The curse was cast by the evil Tom Riddle, better known as Lord Voldemort, a powerful dark wizard, who had murdered Harry’s parents and attempted to kill Harry as a baby, in the belief this would frustrate a prophecy that Harry would become his equal. As an orphan, Harry was placed in the care of his Muggle (non-magical) relatives Petunia Dursley and Vernon Dursley.

In Philosopher’s Stone, Harry re-enters the wizarding world at age 11 and enrolls in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He makes friends with fellow students Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, and is mentored by the school’s headmaster, Albus Dumbledore. He also meets Professor Severus Snape, who intensely dislikes and bullies him. Harry fights Voldemort several times while at school, as the wizard tries to regain a physical form. In Goblet of Fire, Harry is mysteriously entered in a dangerous magical competition called the Triwizard Tournament, which he discovers is a trap designed to allow the return of Lord Voldemort to full strength. During Order of the Phoenix, Harry and several of his friends face off against Voldemort’s Death Eaters, a group of Dark witches and wizards, and narrowly defeat them. In Half-Blood Prince, Harry learns that Voldemort has divided his soul into several parts, creating “horcruxes” from various unknown objects to contain them; in this way he has ensured his immortality as long as at least one of the horcruxes still exists. Two of these had already been destroyed, one a diary destroyed by Harry in the events of Chamber of Secrets and one a ring destroyed by Dumbledore shortly before the events of Half-Blood Prince. Dumbledore takes Harry along in the attempt to destroy a third horcrux contained in a locket. However, the horcrux had been taken by an unknown wizard, and upon their return Dumbledore is ambushed and disarmed by Draco Malfoy who cannot bring himself to kill him. Dumbledore is subsequently killed by Snape, who finishes what Malfoy started.

 

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Reveiled: How Harry Potter has shaped the way we speak?

Calling all muggles and mudbloods, dementors and squibs,

The boy wizard’s first adventure hit our bookshelves in 1997, and has had a huge influence on all aspects of popular culture.

But what about the way we speak? To mark the anniversary the Cambridge University Press has looked into the many words invented by JK Rowling, to find out how deep an effect her Wizarding World has had.

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Matt Norton, CUP’s resident language researcher, donned his cloak to analyse data from the Cambridge English Corpus, a multi-billion word collection of contemporary spoken and written English, to find out the ‘Potterverse’ words that have made their way into everyday dialogue.

In a blog on the CUP website, he says: “I use corpus linguistics to examine how the world of Harry Potter – or the ‘Potterverse’ – has influenced English with new words invented by Rowling (“coinings”); her reusing of rare or obscure words; and changes to existing word usage.”

Many of the terms created by Rowling are examples of ‘blend’ words, made from fusing two existing words together.

Terms like ‘animagus’, a blend of animal and magus (a kind of wizard, plural magi), and ‘merpeople’, blending from mer(maid) and people, are such examples.

Matt said: “Some of the words sound like parodies of English words, like ‘Hogwarts’, the name of Harry’s ‘School of Witchcraft and Wizardry ‘, ‘Hufflepuff’ house or the game ‘Quidditch’.

“Although ‘Hogwarts’ sounds like a combination of hog and wart, there is also a plant called hogwort, which is a genuine English word, which may have also influenced this creation.

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So it seems that the English language may have already contained Potterisms before Potter, but they were obscure or “hidden”, a bit like how the magical world is hidden from humans in the Harry Potter series!”

Another trope of Rowling’s he identifies is her use of ‘dog Latin’ imitation Latin terms, particularly in the names of spells.

He suggest words “such as ‘Expelliarmus’, the defense spell; ‘Expecto Patronum, to protect against dementors; and ‘Finite Incantatem’

“The magical object ‘Horcrux’ has a dark, occult-like tone and appears to be a blend of horror (or similar Latin word) and Latin crux meaning cross.”

He also addresses the numerous invented words used across the books and films, many of which have now taken on a life of their own.

Examples include ‘Hogwarts’, which can be used to refer to old dramatic buildings “such as some of the older Cambridge University colleges”, or just university in general.

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

 

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter is lucky to reach the age of thirteen, since he has already survived the murderous attacks of the feared Dark Lord on more than one occasion. But his hopes for a quiet term concentrating on Quidditch are dashed when a maniacal mass-murderer escapes from Azkaban, pursued by the soul-sucking Dementors who guard the prison. It’s assumed that Hogwarts is the safest place for Harry to be. But is it a coincidence that he can feel eyes watching him in the dark, and should he be taking Professor Trelawney’s ghoulish predictions seriously?

 

Do you know when Harry used his firs “Patronus charm”?

Chapter 1: Owl Post

“Harry scanned the moving photograph, and a grin spread across his face as he saw all nine of the Weasleys waving furiously at him…Right in the middle of the picture was Ron, tall and gangling, with his pet rat, Scabbers, on his shoulder…“
—Harry seeing the photography of the Weasleys in Egypt.

Harry Potter spends another summer holiday with the Dursleys in mid-1993, and things haven’t been that easy for him. Over the summer, the Dursleys have forbidden him to talk to any of the neighbours out of fear of him exposing his magical abilities. The separation from his magical supplies (e.g. his wand, his broomstick, spellbooks, etc.) have become a real problem for Harry, too, because his teachers at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry have given him a lot of summer homework.

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Scholarships from Unique Learning

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Quidditch – Tbilisi Winner 2017/2018

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გაიმართა თბილისის ტური  სადაც გამარჯვებული გუნდი გახდა აკადემიკოს ილია ვეკუას სახელობის  ფიზიკა-მათემატიკის ქალაქ  თბილისის N42 საჯარო სკოლის მოსწავლეები და მათი პედაგოგი ქალბატონი ქეთევან ლილუაშვილი.

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მოსწავლეები პირველ ორ ტურში დაგროვებული  ქულებით  გადავიდნენ მეოთხედ ფინალში, სადაც მათ მოახერხეს 9 ქულის მოპოვება  და 17 დეკემბერს ნახევარ ფინალში  ითამაშეს, სადაც აიღეს 12 ქულა და გადავიდნენ  ფინალში. 23 დეკემბერს ჩატარდა თბილისის ფინალური ტური, სადაც  მათ გადამწყვეტ კაპიტნის რაუნდში შეძლეს სხვა გუნდების დამარცხება, აიღეს 17 ქულა და მოიპოვეს სუპერ ფინალში თამაშის უფლება.

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