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El que persevera, ALCANZA 🙌🏻
Su tenacidad, Sra. Presidenta del Perú @KeikoFujimori es una prueba fehaciente de ello ❤️🤍❤️
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The funny thing is, J.K. Rowling actually answered this question, and the explanation is much more ordinary than people expect. Fred and George used the Marauder’s Map mainly to find secret passages, avoid teachers and plan pranks. They weren’t constantly checking where Ron was sleeping. Even if they happened to notice the name Peter Pettigrew beside their brother, they had no reason to connect it to the supposedly dead wizard Sirius Black was accused of murdering years earlier. Rowling pointed out that hundreds of names moved across the map, and the twins didn’t know every student at Hogwarts. An unfamiliar name wouldn’t automatically mean anything suspicious to them.
What makes this even more interesting is that the map could identify Peter despite his being transformed into Scabbers. The official Harry Potter website confirms that the map tracks people and isn’t fooled by Animagi. But the twins were using it for mischief, not investigating their brother’s pet rat, and the books never show them examining Ron’s dormitory closely enough to notice. So it’s less a case of the map hiding Peter and more a case of the twins never realising what they were looking at. The Marauders’ Map could reveal the truth, but it couldn’t make Fred and George understand the significance of a name they had no reason to suspect.
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Cary Grant & Sean Connery in 1957. The suave Grant was one of the inspirations for the James Bond image, and Ian Fleming hoped that he would eventually play 007. Producer Cubby Broccoli asked to the actor to appear as Bond in the first film, “Dr No” (1962). Grant, who was 58, said he was far too old, particularly for an ongoing franchise, and turned the offer down. Sean Connery was then cast, despite the initial reservations of Fleming.
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One of the reasons I love Ron Weasley is what he saw in the Mirror of Erised in his first year while his brothers stood out for their achievements, Ron saw himself wearing a jumper his mum had knitted for him in his favourite colour, holding a brandnew wand.
He didn’t dream of being the most powerful wizard or having the most impressive achievements,He wanted to feel special,to have something of his own, and to be seen as more than just another Weasley.
Ron grew up surrounded by accomplished siblings, constantly feeling like he was living in their shadows,that little detail says so much about him,behind all the jokes,insecurity and jealousy was a boy who just wanted to feel like he mattered that’s why I’ve always had a soft spot for Ron Weasley.
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Star Wars: Darth Plagueis (novel)
This is my favorite Star Wars novel about the Sith. Not only do you learn the story of Darth Plagueis The Wise but you meet a teenage Palpatine and follow him as he becomes Darth Sidious all the way to when he becomes Chancellor of the Republic in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
Most importantly you follow Darth Plagueis as he seeks to dominate the Force by dominating the midi-chlorians that exist in every living cell. Finally, most importantly you learn the exact reason why Anakin Skywalker was created by the Force to destroy the Rule of Two Sith.
Ironically, Darth Sidious/Palpatine did the galaxy and the Force a great favor by killing his master Darth Plagueis. If you’ve read this novel you know already the answers to what I have described but if you’re Star Wars EU and you haven’t: read this novel!
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How was Umbridge able to produce a Patronus when she was just as cruel as many Dark wizards?
Rowling said Dark wizards generally couldn’t produce Patronuses, yet Umbridge managed to conjure one.
Does that mean a Patronus depends more on the caster’s ability to focus on a happy memory than on whether they’re actually a good person? Because Umbridge definitely wasn’t winning any awards for kindness.
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Barty Crouch Jr. did something more disturbing than kidnapping Alastor Moody: he murdered his own father, Transfigured him into a bone, and buried him near Hagrid’s hut.
Barty Crouch Sr. had spent months under the Imperius Curse to prevent him from revealing Voldemort’s plan. However, he managed to partially resist the curse, escape, and make his way to Hogwarts.
Harry and Viktor Krum found him disoriented near the Forbidden Forest. Amid his ramblings, Crouch kept insisting that he needed to speak to Dumbledore and warn him about something terrible.
Harry rushed to the castle to find the headmaster, leaving Krum with him.
That brief moment was all Barty Crouch Jr. needed.
Crouch Jr., who had spent the entire school year impersonating "Mad-Eye" Moody, arrived before Dumbledore. He stunned Krum and murdered his own father to prevent him from revealing the truth.
But he still had to dispose of the body.
Using Transfiguration, he turned Barty Crouch Sr.’s entire body into a single bone. Then, concealed beneath an Invisibility Cloak, he buried it in the freshly disturbed earth outside Hagrid’s hut.
That was why the body was never found, and for a time, nobody could prove what had happened to him.
Barty Crouch Jr. eventually confessed to the murder under the effects of Veritaserum.
The film removed almost this entire part of the story, including the transformation of the body, causing one of the most disturbing crimes in the series to go almost unnoticed.
Did you remember that Barty Crouch Sr.’s bone remained buried within Hogwarts?
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THE HARRY POTTER MOVIES CHANGED VOLDEMORT’S DEATH AND THE BOOK VERSION HITS SO MUCH HARDER.
In the movie, he literally crumbles into ashes and disappears like a video game villain.
But in the book? He just falls to the floor, dead like any other person. The man who spent his entire life trying to escape death ended up dying like an ordinary human being.
AND THAT WAS THE WHOLE POINT.
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We are sad to hear that actor Michael Forest, who starred in the Star Trek original series episode "Who Mourns For Adonais?" as Apollo, has died at the age of 97. Our deepest condolences to his family and friends.
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Happy birthday to Todd Stashwick! Star Trek: Picard fans call him Captain Liam Shaw, but Enterprise fans might remember him as Talok, a Romulan operative posing as a Vulcan military officer.
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