Thomas Kinkade Chicago Water Tower painting

Thomas Kinkade Chicago Water Tower paintingThomas Kinkade Autumn Lane painting
Harry knocked.
"Come in," said Dumbledore s voice.
"Good evening, sir," said Harry, walking into the headmaster's office.
"Ah, good evening, Harry. Sit down," said Dumbledore, smiling. "I hope you've had an enjoyable first week back at school?" "Yes, thanks, sir," said Harry.
"You must have been busy, a detention under your belt already!" "Er," began Harry awkwardly, but Dumbledore did not look too stern.
"I have arranged with Professor Snape that you will do your detention next Saturday instead."
"Right," said Harry, who had more pressing matters on his mind than Snapes detention, and now looked around surreptitiously for some indication of what Dumbledore was planning to do with him this evening. The circular office looked just as it always did; the delicate silver instruments stood on

Peter Paul Rubens Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus painting

Peter Paul Rubens Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus paintingWinslow Homer Gloucester Harbor paintingEdward Hopper The Long Leg painting
AMULETS
Effective Against Werewolves, Dementors, and Inferi!
A seedy-looking little wizard was rattling armfuls of silver symbols on chains at passersby.
"One for your little girl, madam?" he called at Mrs. Weasley as they passed, leering at Ginny. "Protect her pretty neck?"
"If I were on duty..." said Mr. Weasley, glaring angrily at the amulet seller.
"Yes, but don't go arresting anyone now, dear, we're in a hurry," said Mrs. Weasley, nervously consulting a list. "I think we'd better do Madam Malkin's first, Hermione wants new dress robes, and Ron's showing much too much ankle in his school robes, and you must need new ones too, Harry, you've grown so much... come on, everyone..."
"Molly, it doesn't make sense for all of us to go to Madam Malkin's," said Mr. Weasley. "Why don't those three go with Hagrid, and we can go to Flourish and Blotts and get everyone's school-books?"

Pierre Auguste Renoir The Umbrellas painting

Pierre Auguste Renoir The Umbrellas painting
Pierre Auguste Renoir Sleeping Girl painting
"I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best-laid plans. But I know better now. I understand those things that I did not understand before. I must be the one to kill Harry Potter, and I shall be."

　　　At these words, seemingly in response to them, a sudden wail sounded, a terrible, drawn-out cry of misery and pain. Many of those at the table looked downward, startled, for the sound had seemed to issue from below their feet.

Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Smile painting

Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Smile painting
Rembrandt The Return of the Prodigal Son painting
To those old allies, whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United there is little we cannot do, in a host of cooperative ventures. Dividedthere is little we can do. For we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split us asunder.To those new states whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our words that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny We sha1l not always expect to tind them supporting our view, but we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom, and to remember that in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.

Edgar Degas Absinthe painting

Edgar Degas Absinthe painting
Frida Kahlo The Broken Column painting
A new ABCNEWS tracking poll shows Gore and Bush tied at 47 percent — a three-point gain for Gore — and several other national surveys showed the Democratic candidate closing the gap with his Republican rival. "This is a tight, close election all over the country," he told reporters aboard his campaign plane this afternoon. "I'm convinced the reason I have the momentum now is not because of me — it's because of the people I'm fighting for."As the race for the White House enters its final two weeks, the Gore campaign hopes to reclaim the narrow lead captured by Bush during the debates, by raising doubts about the two-term Texas governor's experience. From spokesmen to congressmen, surrogates for the vice president are directly challenging Bush's fitness for office.

Pablo Picasso Girl Before a Mirror painting

Pablo Picasso Girl Before a Mirror painting
Claude Monet Sunflowers painting
was a very serious failure, one of the most serious failures when we've lost communications," he told reporters. Solovyov said the situation aboard Mir was under control and that a crisis crew would only be dispatched if experts felt there was a critical situation on board. Cosmonauts Salizhan Sharipov and Pavel Vinogradov and a reserve crew are currently completing training for urgent missions, Russian news agencies reported. Yuri Semyonov, head of the Energiya corporation that runs Mir, said the station's solar panels could be the cause of the problem. But speaking to Reuters he dismissed talk of a crisis."I would not stir up passions over this situation," he said. Mir was once the pride of the Russian space program, with a host of endu

Gustav Klimt The Kiss painting

Gustav Klimt The Kiss painting
Steve Hanks Casting Her Shadows painting
Woods started off slowly in the year's first major, the Masters, and although he moved back into contention, he didn't win. Overrated hack. Even his name -- come on, Tiger Woods?!? -- was straight out of a fairy tale. Speaking of fairy tales, the No Fun League was overwhelmed by the St. Louis Rams, maybe pro football's most surprising champions ever. The Rams completed their journey from outhouse to penthouse with a Super Bowl victory over the Tennessee Titans that came down to the last play. The Rams' triumph notwithstanding, it was mostly a year for traditional powers. The Lakers won the NBA title. The Yankees won the World Series. Florida State rang in the new year by winning the national college football title -- and ended it preparing to win another one.

Claude Monet paintings

Claude Monet paintings
Charles Chaplin paintings
Detractors criticise its position. Simon Jenkins, former Editor of The Times and a Millennium Commissioner, wanted it in Battersea. “It should have been somewhere where it does not tower crudely over historic buildings, and where it can draw people away from the crowded central zone
A huge explosion has torn through a school in east China killing up to 60 people, including many children as young as eight, who were forced to make fireworks.
The blast flattened the two-storey school building in the village of Fanglin in Jiangxi province where an illegal fireworks factory had been set up three years ago.

Oriental paintings

Oriental paintings
Piano painting

The stars, the fashions, the scaffolding … all managed to stay up (including the audience) and look wonderful during the 73rd Annual Academy Awards.
Miracle upon miracles, not only did the evening run smoothly, but for the first time in years, it actually ran UNDER — ending at the three-hour, 29-minute mark — including credits. This is an extraordinary feat, being that recent Oscar shows have run close to four hours, and frequently over.Perhaps it was the 45-second acceptance speech rule that held the broadcast to the clock, perhaps not, as many winners chose to forgo the prize of a high-definition TV for the opportunity to spend more time on stage.

George Frederick Watts paintings

George Frederick Watts paintings
Guercino paintings

The disease that has ravaged Britain's livestock for months may have struck its first blow against the human population.
Britain's Department of Health says it is "urgently investigating" the case of a slaughterhouse worker who officials say is showing "all the symptoms" of foot-and-mouth disease, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported.The man, who works in Cumbria, northwest England, was said to be experiencing symptoms just like the animals infected by the disease — blisters on the hands and feet and inside the mouth.However, it will take at least 48 hours to confirm if he indeed has the disease, health authorities said. If it is foot-and-mouth, it would be the second human case ever diagnosed as such in Britain. The previous confirmed human case in Britain was in 1966.

John Singer Sargent Sargent Poppies painting

John Singer Sargent Sargent Poppies painting
William Bouguereau Biblis painting
Tobacco companies "use primarily scenes that have been used for 50 years here to market overseas," says Nancy Kaufman, vice president of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and co-author of a WHO report on the global marketing of tobacco to women. Kaufman says many of the regions tobacco companies target include Asia, Africa, India and former Soviet bloc nations — areas in which the rates of smoking among women are far lower than for men. Besides advertising, many companies also give out free cigarette samples and sponsor cultural and athletic events in countries where tobacco advertising is restricted or severely limited, she says. Marketing in China"By marketing to women, by getting women addicted to tobacco, you sort of help reinforce tobacco use as a normal activity," says Ross Hammond,

Leon-Augustin L'hermitte paintings

Leon-Augustin L'hermitte paintings
Lady Laura Teresa Alma-Tadema paintings
Astronomers form their predictions by mapping Earth's orbit with that of dust trails left behind by the comet Tempel-Tuttle. As the comet, which is made up of dirt and ice, passes near the sun every 33 years, it heats up and releases a dust trail. The last time comet Tempel-Tuttle shed a dust trail was in 1998.Tracking Dust Trails in SpaceWhen Earth passes close to the comet's orbit, it smacks into the comet's old dust trails. The collisions cause shooting stars as the clumps strike Earth's upper atmosphere and vaporize, creating streaks of light in the sky.The most spectacular Leonid meteor storm in recent times was in 1966 when as many as 2,500 meteors streaked across the skies above Earth every minute.Astronomers' various predictions reflect their different mappings of the comet's

ballet paintings

ballet paintings
beach painting

"I have a long term commitment to Real and to my life in Spain. I've been here for one season and it feels like the job's not done yet. The support that I have received from the fans has been..."
Victoria Beckham is moving to Madrid to be closer to her footballer husband. David Beckham, the England captain, revealed recently his family will soon be living together again in a new home. The couple's sons, Brooklyn and Romeo, will also be moving to Spain.Becks made the announcement after casting aside rumours over his future. He pledged to stay in Spain and keep playing with Real Madrid.In a statement, Beckham said: "I have a long term commitment to Real and to my life in Spain. I've been here for one season and it feels like the job's not done yet.

Leonardo da Vinci the picture of the last supper painting

Leonardo da Vinci the picture of the last supper painting
Pierre-Auguste Cot Springtime painting

People across Asia are flocking to temporary morgues seeking lost loved ones. The death toll is skyrocketing as relief efforts gear up ...
People across Asia are flocking to temporary morgues seeking lost loved ones after tsunamis swept across the Indian Ocean from Thailand to Somalia, killing more than 63,000 people.Authorities across the region are running out of places to put the dead -- lining them up in schools and piling them in the street -- as food aid and other supplies for survivors are making their way to affected areas.The tsunamis are "not the biggest in recorded history, but the effects may be the biggest ever because many more people live in exposed areas than ever before," said Jan Egeland, undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief. With tens of thousands dead, many missing and millions displaced, still more serious problems lie ahead, Egeland said, including widespread illnesses.

Camille Pissarro paintings

Camille Pissarro paintings
Carl Fredrik Aagard paintings
what you are. I figure we belong together, being the same sort. I\'ve been waiting for you to grow up and get that sad-eyed Ashley Wilkes out of your heart. Well, I hear Mrs. Wilkes is going to have a baby in 60another month or so. It\'s be hard loving a man with a wife and baby clinging to him. Well, here we are. Are you going with me or are you getting out?SCARLETT: I hate and despise you, Rhett Butler. And I\'ll hate and despise you till I die!RHETT: Oh, no, you won\'t, Scarlett, not that long.(The Hamiltons. Scarlett is packing, preparing for leaving.)DR. MEADE: What is this? You ain\'t planning on running away?SCARLETT: And don\'t you dare try to stop me. I\'m never going back to that hospital, I\'ve had enough of smelling death and rot and death...I\'m going home, I want my mother. My mother needs me.DR. MEADE: You\'ve got to listen to me. You must stay here.

Guillaume Seignac paintings

Guillaume Seignac paintings
George Owen Wynne Apperley paintings
Ah, well, it's the only bad thing I know of either of you, Mistress Blythe. Cornelia is a Tory, too. I called in on my way from the Glen to tell her the news."
"Didn't you know you took your life in your hands?"
"Yes, but I couldn't resist the temptation."
"How did she take it?"
"Comparatively calm, Mistress Blythe, comparatively calm. She says, says she, `Well, Providence sends seasons of humiliation to a country, same as to individuals. You Grits have been cold and hungry for many a year. Make haste to get warmed and fed, for you won't be in long.' `Well, now Cornelia,' I says, `mebbe Providence thinks Canada needs a real long spell of humiliation.' Ah, Susan, have you heard the news? The Liberals are in."
Susan had just come in from the kitchen, attended by the odor of delectable dishes which always seemed to hover around her.

Eugene de Blaas In the Water painting

Eugene de Blaas In the Water painting
Pablo Picasso The Old Guitarist painting
Well, Leslie was left over there alone. Dick had put in the crop before he went, and old Abner looked after it. The summer went by and the Four Sisters didn't come back. The Nova Scotia Moores investigated, and found she had got to Havana and discharged her cargo and took on another and left for home; and that was all they ever found out about her. By degrees people began to talk of Dick Moore as one that was dead. Almost everyone believed that he was, though no one felt certain, for men have turned up here at the harbor after they'd been gone for years. Leslie never thought he was dead--and she was right. A thousand pities too! The next summer Captain Jim was in Havana--that was before he gave up the sea, of course. He thought he'd poke round a bit--Captain Jim was always meddlesome, just like a man--and he went to inquiring round among the sailors' boarding houses and places like that, to see if he could find out anything about the crew of the Four

Edwin Austin Abbey paintings

Edwin Austin Abbey paintings
Edward Hopper paintings
She endeavored to be nice, but succeeded only in being haughty and patronizing. Dorothy Gardner was slim and jolly and rather tomboyish. Anne knew she was Roy's favorite sister and warmed to her. She would have looked very much like Roy if she had had dreamy dark eyes instead of roguish hazel ones. Thanks to her and Phil, the call really went off very well, except for a slight sense of strain in the atmosphere and two rather untoward incidents. Rusty and Joseph, left to themselves, began a game of chase, and sprang madly into Mrs. Gardner's silken lap and out of it in their wild career. Mrs. Gardner lifted her lorgnette and gazed after their flying forms as if she had never seen cats before, and Anne, choking back slightly nervous laughter, apologized as best she could.
"You are fond of cats?" said Mrs. Gardner, with a slight intonation of tolerant wonder.
Anne, despite her affection for Rusty, was not especially fond of cats, but Mrs

Frederick Carl Frieseke paintings

Frederick Carl Frieseke paintings
Flamenco Dancer paintings
But I suppose Gilbert looks only at her face. So like a man," thought Anne scornfully.
"Shall you be home Saturday afternoon?" asked Roy.
"Yes."
"My mother and sisters are coming to call on you," said Roy quietly.
Something went over Anne which might be described as a thrill, but it was hardly a pleasant one. She had never met any of Roy's family; she realized the significance of his statement; and it had, somehow, an irrevocableness about it that chilled her.
"I shall be glad to see them," she said flatly; and then wondered if she really would be glad. She ought to be, of course. But would it not be something of an ordeal? Gossip had filtered to Anne regarding the light in which the Gardners viewed the "infatuation" of son and brother. Roy must have brought pressure to bear in the matter of this call. Anne knew she would be weighed in the balance. From the fact that they had consented to call she understood that, willingly or unwillingly, they regarded her as a possible member of their clan.
"I shall just be myself. I shall not TRY to make a good impression," thought Anne loftily. But

Guillaume Seignac The Wave painting

Guillaume Seignac The Wave painting
Steve Hanks Interior View I painting
her. She had no prophetic inkling of what was coming. Probably Jane was engaged, too; rumor averred that Ruby Gillis was engaged to the Spencervale schoolteacher, about whom all the girls were said to be quite wild.
"I'll soon be the only fancy-free maiden of our old quartet," thought Anne, drowsily. Aloud she said, "Of course."
"Anne," said Jane, still more solemnly, "what do you think of my brother Billy?"
Anne gasped over this unexpected question, and floundered helplessly in her thoughts. Goodness, what DID she think of Billy Andrews? She had never thought ANYTHING about him -- round-faced, stupid, perpetually smiling, good-natured Billy Andrews. Did ANYBODY ever think about Billy Andrews?
"I -- I don't understand, Jane," she stammered. "What do you mean -- exactly?"

Eric Wallis Roman Girl painting

Eric Wallis Roman Girl painting
Steve Hanks Blending Into Shadows Sheets painting
the plump, dimpled little hand hanging over her pillow, "there's nobody like my own Diana after all. Do you remember that evening we first met, Diana, and `swore' eternal friendship in your garden? We've kept that `oath,' I think. . .we've never had a quarrel nor even a coolness. I shall never forget the thrill that went over me the day you told me you loved me. I had had such a lonely, starved heart all through my childhood. I'm just beginning to realize how starved and lonely it really was. Nobody cared anything for me or wanted to be bothered with me. I should have been miserable if it hadn't been for that strange little dream-life of mine, wherein I imagined all the friends and love I craved. But when I came to Green Gables everything was changed. And then I met you. You don't know what your friendship meant to me. I want to thank you here and now, dear, for the warm and true affection you've always given me."
"And always, always will," sobbed Diana. "I shall never love anybody . . .any girl. . .half as well as I love you. And if I ever do marry and have a little girl of my own

Caravaggio paintings

Caravaggio paintings
Claude Lorrain paintings
At the foot of the hill a boy was sitting on the fence in the shadow of the spruces. . .a boy with big, dreamy eyes and a beautiful, sensitive face. He swung down and joined Anne, smiling; but there were traces of tears on his cheeks.
"I thought I'd wait for you, teacher, because I knew you were going to the graveyard," he said, slipping his hand into hers. "I'm going there, too. . .I'm taking this bouquet of geraniums to put on Grandpa Irving's grave for grandma. And look, teacher, I'm going to put this bunch of white roses beside Grandpa's grave in memory of my little mother. . .because I can't go to her grave to put it there. But don't you think she'll know all about it, just the same?"
"Yes, I am sure she will, Paul." You see, teacher, it's just three years today since my little mother died. It's such a long, long time but it hurts just as much as ever. . .and I miss her just as much as ever. Sometimes it seems to me that I just can't bear it, it hurts so."

Pablo Picasso The Old Guitarist painting

Pablo Picasso The Old Guitarist painting
Steve Hanks Forever a Mystery painting
hostile expression in his black eyes. Anne instantly made up her mind that she would win that boy's affection and discomfit the Pyes utterly.
In the other corner another strange boy was sitting with Arty Sloane. . .a jolly looking little chap, with a snub nose, freckled face, and big, light blue eyes, fringed with whitish lashes. . . probably the Donnell boy; and if resemblance went for anything, his sister was sitting across the aisle with Mary Bell. Anne wondered what sort of mother the child had, to send her to school dressed as she was. She wore a faded pink silk dress, trimmed with a great deal of cotton lace, soiled white kid slippers, and silk stockings. Her sandy hair was tortured into innumerable kinky and unnatural curls, surmounted by a flamboyant bow of pink ribbon bigger than her head. Judging from her expression she was very well satisfied with herself. pale little thing, with smooth ripples of fine, silky, fawn-colored hair flowing over her shoulders, must, Anne thought, be Annetta Bell, whose parents had formerly lived in the Newbridge school district, but, by reason of hauling their house fifty yards north of its old site were now in Avonlea. Three pallid little girls crowded into one seat were certainly