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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a 2005 fantasy film directed by Mike Newell, the fourth adaptation of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling's sixth Harry Potter novel (2005, Bloomsbury), follows Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts with Dumbledore's lessons on Tom Riddle; adapted as a 2009 David Yates film scoring 78 on Metacritic.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a 2009 fantasy film directed by David Yates, the sixth installment in the series, following Harry and Dumbledore into Voldemort's past.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (HPMOR) is a 660,000-word, 122-chapter Harry Potter fanfiction by Eliezer Yudkowsky (pen name Less Wrong), posted 2010 to 2015, in which science-raised Harry applies rationality to magic; it is considered the first rational fiction.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling's fifth Harry Potter novel (2003), 870 pages, 255,000 words, 8.5-million first printing; Ministry denies Voldemort's return, Umbridge takes over Hogwarts, 2007 film adaptation.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a 2007 fantasy film directed by David Yates, the fifth adaptation of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (US: Sorcerer's Stone) is J.K. Rowling's 1997 debut fantasy novel, first of seven Harry Potter books, published by Bloomsbury, winner of the 1997 Smarties Gold Medal, and opener of the best-selling book series in history.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Sorcerer's Stone in the US) is Chris Columbus's 2001 film adapting Rowling's first novel; it premiered 16 November 2001, cost $125 million, and grossed over $1 billion worldwide.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (PC video game)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Sorcerer's Stone in the US) is a 2001 KnowWonder-developed, EA-published action-adventure PC/Mac game released with the film, with 28 levels, Flipendo and Wingardium Leviosa spells, and wizard card collecting.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is J.K. Rowling's 1999 third Harry Potter novel, published by Bloomsbury and Scholastic, in which escaped prisoner Sirius Black, Dementors, Remus Lupin, and the Time-Turner drive Harry's third Hogwarts year.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Alfonso Cuarón's third Harry Potter film, follows Harry's third Hogwarts year as Sirius Black escapes Azkaban; $795.6m worldwide, two Oscar nominations.

Harry Potter fandom

Harry Potter fandom: the global Potterhead community around Rowling's 1997–2007 series, the internet era's threshold fandom, spanning fan sites like MuggleNet, fanfiction, the Harry Potter Alliance, and post-2020 Rowling controversies.

Harry Potter prequel

Harry Potter prequel: an 800-word 2008 J.K. Rowling story on an A5 postcard, auctioned for £25,000, about James Potter and Sirius Black versus three Death Eaters; distinct from Fantastic Beasts.

Harry Potter video games

Harry Potter video games: official Wizarding World adaptations from EA's 2001 film tie-ins and LEGO titles through Portkey Games' mobile releases, Wizards Unite (closed 2022), and the 2023 hit Hogwarts Legacy, with a sequel confirmed.

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is a 2018 free-to-play narrative mobile RPG by Jam City under Portkey Games, set in 1980s Hogwarts; praised for story, criticized for its energy system and microtransactions.

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, a Niantic and WB Games augmented reality mobile game under Portkey Games, launched June 21, 2019, had players return Foundables via Spell Energy-fueled spellcasting, and shut down January 31, 2022.

Harry Price

Harry Price (1881–1948) was an English psychical researcher and author who investigated hauntings, spirit photography, and physical mediums, founded the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, and investigated Borley Rectory.

Harry R. Allcock

Harry R. Allcock is a chemist at Pennsylvania State University who discovered polyphosphazenes, inorganic-backbone polymers used in biomaterials, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2014.

Harry R. Büller

Harry R. Büller (born 1952) is a Dutch internist and clinical trialist in vascular medicine at Amsterdam UMC whose trials reshaped the diagnosis and treatment of venous thromboembolism.

Harry R. Truman

Harry R. Truman was an American entrepreneur who owned the Mount St. Helens Lodge at Spirit Lake, Washington, and died in the volcano's 1980 eruption.

Harry Ransom Center

Harry Ransom Center: humanities research library and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, founded 1957 by Harry Huntt Ransom, renamed 1983. Holds ~1 million books, 42 million manuscripts, a Gutenberg Bible, and the Niépce heliograph.

Harry Reasoner

Harry Reasoner (1923–1991), American broadcast journalist, CBS and ABC evening news anchor and founding 60 Minutes correspondent; with Barbara Walters formed network TV's first male-female anchor team.

Harry Redknapp

Harry Redknapp (born 1947, Poplar, London) is an English former footballer and manager of West Ham, Portsmouth, Southampton, Tottenham, QPR, and Birmingham; won the 2008 FA Cup with Portsmouth.

Harry Reems

Harry Reems (Herbert Streicher, 1947–2013), American actor, male star of the 1972 film Deep Throat with Linda Lovelace; convicted 1976 of federal obscenity conspiracy, overturned 1977; later a Park City, Utah realtor.

Harry Reid

Harry Reid (1939-2021), Nevada Democratic senator 1987-2017 and Senate majority leader 2007-2015, steered the Affordable Care Act, used the 2013 nuclear option, and built Nevada's Democratic machine.

Harry Reid International Airport

Harry Reid International Airport, formerly McCarran International Airport and renamed in 2021 for the Nevada senator, serves Las Vegas two miles from the Strip, handling nearly 55 million passengers in 2025.

Harry Ricardo

Harry Ralph Ricardo (1885–1974) was a British engine designer remembered for the 1917 British tank engine, the turbulent head for side-valve petrol engines, and Ricardo & Co. at Shoreham-by-Sea.

Harry Rosenbusch

Harry Rosenbusch (1836–1914) was a German petrographer and mineralogist, professor at Strasbourg and then Heidelberg from 1878 to 1908, whose Mikroskopische Physiographie established thin-section microscopy of rocks.

Harry Rubin

Harry Rubin (1926–2020) was an American cancer biologist at UC Berkeley who developed the 1958 focus assay for Rous sarcoma virus and shared the 1964 Lasker Award.

Harry Ryan

Harry Ryan was a British track cyclist who won the tandem sprint gold and 1,000 meter sprint bronze at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics with Thomas Lance.