harry potter
2007-12-14 01:00:39
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answer #1
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answered by BLAME UCKER, HE STOLE MY ♥ 4
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Harry Potter
The Wizard of Oz
Merlin
2007-12-14 09:01:08
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answer #2
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answered by Staara 3
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The Chair Wizard
2007-12-14 08:56:26
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answer #3
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answered by Anonymous
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Merlin
2007-12-14 08:57:24
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answer #4
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answered by doug4jets 7
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Merlin
2007-12-14 08:57:08
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answer #5
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answered by Will T 3
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The wizard of Oz.
2007-12-14 08:57:31
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answer #6
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answered by barbwire 7
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Sometimes this is justified by the use of magic bringing about worse things than it can alleviate, and the need of wizards to learn restraint.[53] In Barbara Hambley's Windrose Chronicles, the wizards are precisely pledged not to interfere because of the terrible damage they can do. In Terry Pratchett's Discworld, the importance of wizards is that they do not do magic. This may be direct effect, or the danger of a miscast spell wreaking terrible harm.[54]
In other works, developing magic is difficult. In Rick Cook's Wizardry series, the extreme danger of missteps with magic and the difficulty of analyzing the magic has stymied magic, and left humanity at the mercy of the dangerous elves, until a wizard summons a computer programmer from a parallel world -- ours -- to apply the skills he learned here to magic.
At other times, a parallel development of magic does occur. This is commonest in alternate history genre. Patricia Wrede's Regency fantasies include a Royal Society of Wizards, and a technological level equivalent to the actual Regency; Randall Garrett's Lord Darcy series, Robert A. Heinlein's Magic, Incorporated, and Poul Anderson's Operation Chaos all depicted modern societies with magic equivalent to twentieth-century technology. In Harry Potter, the wizards have magic equivalent or superior to Muggle technology; sometimes they duplicate it, as in the train that brings students to Hogwarts.
In the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting Eberron, masses of relatively weak wizards mass-produce spells and magical items for public consumption.
The power ascribed to wizards often affects their role in society. In practical terms, their powers may give them authority in the social structure; wizards may advise kings, such as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, or Belgarath and Polgara the Sorceress in David Eddings's The Belgariad, or even be rulers themselves as in E.R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros where both the heroes and the villains, although kings and lords, supplement their physical power with magical knowledge, or Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy, where magicians are the governing class.[2] On the other hand, magicians often live like hermits, isolated in their towers and often in the wilderness, bringing no change to society. In some works, such as many of Barbara Hambly's, wizards are despised and outcast specially because of their knowledge and powers.[55]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard
2007-12-14 09:03:40
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answer #7
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answered by Anonymous
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Harry Potter
2007-12-14 08:56:31
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answer #8
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answered by Rain? 7
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Dumbledore!
2007-12-14 08:57:58
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answer #9
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answered by Anonymous
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Roy Wood, the lead singer of 70s glam rock band Wizard.
2007-12-14 08:58:22
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answered by Anonymous
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Alistair Crowley, Alan Moore
2007-12-14 08:58:07
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answered by Barry W 2
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