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Posted by: Carol Lombardi

Monday, July 2, 2007 12:15 AM

If you need to get something done, magic is the quickest way. In our new spells section, you can create your own spell, view/comment on other spells and try your hand at predicting what's going to happen when you hear some words and see wand pointed in your direction.

I'm not sure why Latin seems to be the official language of spellmakers. Feel free to create your spells in any language you'd like, but if you're feeling traditional and your Latin is rusty, here is a handy Latin word list and a Java English-Latin dictionary.

In other news, the experts at WebMD have analyzed the books and determined that Harry Potter suffers from migraines. I would hesitate to trust a team of doctors who (a) spend their research time diagnosing fictional characters and (b) overlook the obvious problem: the boy had a death curse bounce off of his head. Is this, complete with the lightening bolt scar, a common precursor to developing migraines?

And in case you haven't decided one way or the other about seeing "Order of the Phoenix" on July 11 or thereafter, the first review came out this week after the Japanese opening and countless other reviews have joined it in the past few days.