![]() ![]() The Harry Potter collection at Bed, Bath & Beyond features everything you could possibly want to set up a new Harry Potter-themed bedroom. Basically, if you've ever wanted to redecorate your apartment, house, or dorm room with Harry Potter everything, the time has come. Both Williams Sonoma and PBteen introduced magical new collections this year, which just so happens to be the 20th anniversary of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. I've picked out 10 of my favorite Harry Potter items from Bed, Bath & Beyond for you to check out below, but keep in mind that the complete item list is well worth having a look at.īed, Bath & Beyond is not the first store to offer up Harry Potter items this holiday season. The walls of Dumbledore’s office are adorned with likenesses of former headmasters of Hogwarts - including a readily recognizable Ivan the Terrible painted by Viktor Vasnetsov.Attention, Potterheads: Bed, Bath & Beyond now has Harry Potter items available (like, 200 of them), and all of them can be yours today. The school is crammed full of portraits of wizards of the past which are capable of coming to life - and a number of exhibits have plainly been transferred here from the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Was Ivan the Terrible a headmaster at Hogwarts?įans of Russian culture can spot many familiar faces in the Harry Potter films. It is a deceptive maneuver in which one chaser flies straight upwards while surreptitiously passing the quaffle (ball) to a team-mate below. The Porskoff Ploy is a tactic used in Quidditch named in honor of Petrova. In the first Russian edition of the Harry Potter books, the translators decided to spare the reader and simply turned the heroine into a man by the name of Pyotr Porskov. It might be added that the surname Porskov actually does exist - although it is not very common - and is apparently derived from the archaic verb porskat (meaning “to snort with laughter”). This is not a unique case in the Harry Potter books - Cho Chang, the name of the girl from Ravenclaw house whom Harry has a romantic relationship with, is a blend of two Chinese surnames. In other words, Rowling used a surname as her character’s given name, while apparently employing an inaccurate rendering of the Old Russian given name Praskovya for the surname. It’s a pity that she played not Petrova herself, but her foster-sister, Pauline Fossil. It is an interesting fact that ‘Hermione’ herself - or, to be more precise, actress Emma Watson - appeared in the movie adaptation of ‘Ballet Shoes’ (2007). ‘Garri Potter’?! Why do Russians butcher English words that start with ‘H’?įor instance, in Noel Streatfeild’s ‘Ballet Shoes’ - a children’s book popular in Britain (first published in 1936) - a heroine with Russian roots is called Petrova Fossil. After the duel with Pierre Bezukhov, he was demoted to the ranks and later conducted himself heroically in the wars against Napoleonic France. ![]() An officer of the elite Semyonovsky Regiment and an inveterate duelist and card cheat, Tolstoy’s Dolokhov was prone to fits of rage and was capable of shooting a coachman’s horse or even killing a person. Neither a dark wizard nor a monster, he was an extremely controversial personality nevertheless. Rowling herself confessed that the villain’s name had been “borrowed” from Fyodor Dolokhov, a character in Leo Tolstoy’s novel ‘War and Peace’. In the movie adaptation, Dolohov was played by Arben Bajraktaraj, a French actor of Albanian descent. Several years later, in the Battle of Hogwarts, he kills Remus Lupin, a former Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts and one of Harry’s closest friends. The first mention of him comes in ‘Goblet of Fire’ and he makes his first actual appearance in ‘Order of the Phoenix’ - he takes part in its culminating scene, the Battle of the Department of Mysteries. ![]()
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