The winning entry
We got more than 100 entries for our Harry Potter contest, in which we asked young fans to write a short article predicting how the beloved book series would end, but it was 10-year-old Joe Wilson who cast a spell over our judges.
Deathly Hallows - Deathly Indeed
Rita Skeeter reports from an exclusive interview with Harry Potter's own teacher, seer Sybil Trelawney.
In a dramatic resolution to the Harry Potter saga, Draco Malfoy, 17, will turn against his fellows and kill Severus Snape, a former Hogwarts teacher. Harry will duel with a death-eater, while you-know-who sneaks up behind him. The Dark Lord will send a curse at Harry, only to be foiled by the sacrifice of classmate Neville Longbottom, 17. Harry will finish off the death-eater, then vanquish the Dark Lord ... however, a dark future awaits Harry...
About
Danielle Deaver is the education reporter at the Journal. She started indoctrinating her son into the Harry Potter books five hours after he was born.
Blair Goldstein has covered Forsyth County government since January. She started reading the Harry Potter books late in the game, but hasn't put them down since.
Jeri Young
Comments
Hillary Clinton says her economic policies will restore the economic policies of her husband’s administration. However as the sub prime housing loans and dot com investment bubbles were created and pandered during her husband’s administration, Hillary and her husband ignored Alan Greenspan’s warnings of the irrational exuberance in these markets and both supported China’s entry into the World Trade Organization without any conditions such as protecting the environment or labor and property rights to levels that are comparable to western standards.
The U.S. government surplus (generated by taxes raised from the housing and investment bubbles) evaporated once the housing and investment bubbles burst.
Furthermore, China today is not only a leading contributor to environmental pollution and global warming (thank you very much Mr. Nobel Laureate, Al Gore), it’s also pushing up oil and other commodity prices, taking our jobs and stealing our intellectual property.
Like the Roaring Twenties decade that preceded the Great Depression, the Irrational Nineties that preceded our current decade were both golden ages for technology, scandal-plagued politicians, corporate greed, and unrestrained personal debt and speculation.
As the global economy teeters on the brink of economic meltdown not unlike the Great Depression, America doesn’t need finger pointing and fear mongering, America needs a president whose economic policies are based on confidence, unity and reason. America needs Barack Obama.
John Patrick Smith on 04/25/2008 (10:24 am)