April 26, 2004

Newsweek does small blip on PoA

The news magazine interviews Daniel Radcliff for his take on the movie.

"It just looks brilliant!" Radcliffe says. "It's this really big action sequence, and all the raindrops turn to ice and start to cut Harry's face. When we were shooting they were chucking water over me before each take." Pause. "They did heat it, I'm glad to say, which I'd like to think means they like me."

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Posted by rockygirl at 05:55 AM

April 13, 2004

Florida school adopts Hogwarts Point System

School takes page from book for new behavioral system

Stuidents earn, lose points as in `Harry Potter` series.

For Creative Learning Academy students, there is no worse feeling than losing your marbles.

"If someone loses a marble or 10 or 20, we're like, `Why did you have to do that? Why did you do something so stupid?"' eighth- grader Nicole Bobbitt said.


Marbles are constantly on the minds of the private school's 65 middle schoolers since the academy adopted a disciplinary method inspired by the popular "Harry Potter" novels written by J.K. Rowling.


"The students relate to `Harry Potter.' So I kept thinking, `Why couldn't we do that? We could have a point system with the students,"' said middle school director and Latin teacher Sally Kelly.

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