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Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

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Fans weren't at a loss for<br />

discussion topics. Take, for<br />

example, the Bloomsbury U.K.<br />

edition's back cover where<br />

behind the Pensieve is a boat<br />

with a cavernous wall in the<br />

background.<br />

What could this boat mean?<br />

MuggleNet.com, the site for<br />

ardent Potter scholars, has more<br />

than 40 "<strong>Underground</strong> Lake"<br />

editorials.<br />

Chapter 23 -- Girls, Too!<br />

And there will be the spin<strong>of</strong>fs. Harry Potter's World <strong>of</strong> Magic Theme Park -- not to be confused<br />

with Universal Studios' Wizarding World <strong>of</strong> Harry Potter, Orlando -- exists only in cyberspace. To<br />

play, one needs:<br />

1, Imagination, as was demanded by the books.<br />

2. A credit card.<br />

Nestled in a hidden valley that repels Muggle intruders lies Godric’s Hollow where one must boatride<br />

through a cave in search <strong>of</strong> the sorcerer's stone.<br />

Girls Club Singles<br />

While our list <strong>of</strong> non-series underground river books written for girls isn't as lengthy as the list for<br />

boys, it's indeed as varied.<br />

"First Person Singular," by David C.<br />

Murray in the August 29, 1885,<br />

Graphic was by far too romantic for a<br />

Boys Club, but Victorian girls would<br />

have enjoyed picturing themselves in<br />

the craft to the right.<br />

To exit from the caves is made by<br />

water, and the slow moving oars<br />

bumped the boat little by little<br />

towards daylight.<br />

Mary E Bradley's Mizora, A Prophecy, A Mss. Found among the Private Papers <strong>of</strong> the Princess<br />

Vera Zarovitch (1889) is about an enlightened female society existing underground in perfect<br />

harmony, blessed with technologies permitting leisure for continuous education, genetic<br />

manipulation <strong>of</strong> crops and the manufacture <strong>of</strong> pure foodstuffs. But best <strong>of</strong> all, males are no<br />

longer biologically required. To enter Mizora, go to the North Pole and downward.<br />

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