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Eddie Redmayne in "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them."(Photo: Provided by Warner Bros.)
By now, any true Potterhead knows which Hogwarts house they"d be sorted into -- even if they vociferously disagree with the official Sorting Hat quiz (Gryffindor?Really?).
Now, you have a whole new personality test to get excited about with the JK Rowling-penned test for the American wizarding school, Ilvermorney.
The American school is part of the publicity and mythology for the upcoming movie "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," which takes place in the New World instead of Jolly Old England. You can read the whole "history" of the Massachusetts-based school here.
Of course, it wouldn"t be the Potterverse if there wasn"t a quiz that let you neatly define yourself within a set of vague personality traits by answering cryptic and seemingly bizarre questions.
The four American houses are steeped in Native American history, which has spurred some accusations of cultural appropriation from. Here are the four houses:
Thunderbird: Based on a common figure from multiple tribes, this creature is believed to bring thunder (and sometimes lightning). In wizarding terms, it represents the soul of wizards and favors the adventurous. Think of this as your Gryffindor.
Horned Serpent: A dragon-like creature found in many myths of tribes in the Eastern U.S. For the magically inclined, it represents the mind of the wizard and is renowned for its scholars. Yup, we"ve found Ravenclaw.
Pukwudgie: Magical little people in Algonquin beliefs, similar to European fairies, they can be helpful or dangerous in turn. Clearly, this is the best house. It represents the heart of a wizard and is famous for its healers. Welcome to Hufflepuff, friends.
Wampus: Rooted in Cherokee folklore, the cat-like creature is seen as a protector in Native stories -- but a menace in the stories of white Appalachian settlers. In Rowling"s world, it represents the body of a wizard and is warriors. So, kinda Slytherin-esque.
Which house are you? Only one way to find out. Take the quiz and report back.
Hall of famers Buddy Ryan and Pat Summit pass away on the same day
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) --
Ginny Lasco saw Buddy Ryan through a different prism than most of us.
"There was nobody like him. There"s never going to be another guy like him," Lasco said.
Lasco was a young woman working in television when she tagged along with a photographer to a Philadelphia Eagles practice and first met Buddy Ryan. It was 1986.
The pair started chatting, hit it off immediately, and became close friends for years to come.
"To me, he was a father figure. He was very dad-like. That"s what drew me to him plus his sense of humor. We were constantly laughing and being smart alecs," Lasco said.
Lasco talked about the fun times she and Ryan shared as she looked through treasured photos at her Manayunk home.
"We started having lunch every Tuesday at a place at the end of the practice field when it was down at the old stadium. We"d have eggplant parmigiana and two beers every single time we went," Lasco said.
A longtime horse enthusiast, Ryan named two horses after Lasco.
"The first was Ginny"s Pursuit which sounds weird, but it was the offspring of a horse named Pursuit and the second one was Lucky Lasco. Yeah, I won $90 on him one time," Lasco said.
This city might remember Ryan as blunt, brash, often foul-mouthed, even physical at times. Lasco grew to know and love a kinder, gentler side of a man some considered a football genius.
"I mean he touches everybody. He"s so generous and so kind and always cared about what was going on in your life," Lasco said.
Ryan bought Lasco a new winter coat every year concerned she wasn"t staying warm.
She thinks they last spoke by phone about three years ago. He couldn"t communicate very clearly and she knew she would soon learn of his passing. A friend called with the sad news Tuesday morning.
"It"s heartbreaking. I mean he was suffering. And now, he"s with his wife, in heaven," Lasco said.
Elizabeth Warren Hits the Campaign Trail With Hillary Clinton in Ohio—Embarrasses Herself
A great parlor game is "Who will be Hillary Clinton"s vice presidential choice?" When you say Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the knee-jerk responses are often "Two women?" "Forget it." "It will never sell." "We"re not ready." "Not good chemistry." Here"s an argument for why Hillary Clinton should select Elizabeth Warren.
Conventional wisdom is that every presidential election is a 404020 proposition. That is, 40 percent of us will vote for the Democrat, 40 percent for the Republican and the 20 percent who are left make up what we call the persuadable vote. But that wisdom has become problematic, at least since 2000. We have become so partisan and so polarized that many of us argue that we really have a 48484 electorate, where only 4 percent of voters are really still thinking it over.
If the name of the game is winning, and that means getting 270 electoral votes, what would be the best strategy for Hillary Clinton? Does she waste a lot of time going after that 4 percent or does she maximize turnout among key groups that have traditionally been stalwarts for Democrats? These include progressives, young voters, working-class whites, women and marginalized groups. I think she should take the second option.
What Bernie had going for him was excitement among progressives, millennials and white working-class Democrats and independents. Exit polls indicate dramatic increases in the percentage of voters who actually call themselves "liberals." Millennials want a new political game, and working-class whites want a better deal when it comes to economic well-being.
Elizabeth Warren is on fire. She is exciting. She appeals to all three of these groups and can enhance turnout among them. She gives the Democratic ticket street cred when it comes to the progressive issues Bernie addressed, including student debt, income inequality and going after Wall street and the 1 percent.
Like Hillary, she is at the forefront of wanting to address traditional Democratic positions climate change, gun safety, immigration reform, universal health care, social security, equal pay for equal work, paid family leave and women"s health. And, as an attack dog, going after Donald Trump seems to be a passion though Hillary really does not need much help here.
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Turning out progressives, young voters, women, African-Americans, Hispanics, the LGBT community and other marginalized groups worked for President Barack Obama. That"s the formula; getting the base excited and turning it out. Elizabeth can help Hillary make it happen.
Will Secretary Clinton select Sen. Warren? Clinton is known to be cautious and risk averse. By selecting the senator, Clinton will demonstrate that she is both bold and willing to make gutsy decisions.
But it would be out of character. While polling shows Warren is the leading choice among activist Democrats for all the reasons listed above, Hillary is likely to play it safe. Look for Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine to be her running mate.
Its easy to score with former major league all-star Lenny Dykstra just pay him, he admitted on the radio Tuesday.
The former Mets center fielder who this week published a tell-all memoir about the shady side of pro baseball moonlights as a gigolo for elderly women, he revealed on the The Howard Stern Show.
Would you fk a woman your own age? Stern asked him.
If they paid me, he shot back.
Dykstra, 53, confessed on the show that geezers pay him for companionship and romantic dinner dates.But he refused to say whether they gave him cash for s*x.
One of the women, who is in her 80s, gets on his nerves because she always wants to stick her fing tongue down my throat, he told the shock jock.
Were talking about grandma. Youre talking about a fking gray bush, bro, Dykstra said.
The bigmouth baseball great doesnt prefer to go all the way with grannies because, their bones are brittle, he added.
In his new book, which was exclusively excerpted in The Post this week, Dykstra claims he would hire private eyes to dig up dirt on umpires so he could intimidate them at games.
He also admitted that he used Jack Nicholson as a wingman for picking up women and went on 10-day coke bender with actor Mickey Rourke.
But s*x may be his favorite vice, he said Tuesday.
I thought G*d put me on earth to entertain people on the baseball fieldbut He actually put me on earth to get women off, he said.
Im like Picasso, the sports legend bragged of his bedroom prowess.
Dykstra, a member of the World Series champion 1986 Mets, also boasted about the number of women he slept with while on the road and while traveling on his private plane.
The plane became my drug. For instance, youre sitting around in your hotel suite fking bored, [saying] Where do you want to go? I spun the globe [and] wanted trip to Monaco, he told Stern.
I was trying to tap that Princess Stephanie. I just wanted some royalty on the belt, he said.
In the radio interview, Dykstra also dished about doing time in jail, partying with Charlie Sheen and oral s*x, calling it, Artwork, man.
Asked about his bad habit of saying too much in interviews and books, he insisted hes just an honest guy.I speak the truth and sometimes people dont like the truth, he said.
Dykstra was a three-time All-Star and also made it to the World Series with the Phillies
Ahead of the first previews for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a stage production set to open in Londons West End in July, Pottermore has released some new information on the eighth Harry Potter story including brand-new images of a grown-up Harry, Ginny and their son, Albus Severus Potter.
Previews begin at the Palace Theatre in one week, on June 7.
Cursed Child takes place 19 years after the final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The new photos reveal actor Jamie Parker as the onetime boy who lived, as well as Sam Clemmett as Albus and Poppy Miller as Ginny.
In addition to the images, the new Pottermore post includes observations from Potter creator J.K. Rowling, who said of Parkers transformation into her titular character: He simply is Harry now. Theres a kind of relief in watching him, he gets it so right.
On continuing the Harry Potter tale, Parker remarked, Theyre just iconic. These are stories that people have lived with for their whole lives, theyve grown up with and now theyre adults rejoining the tale, picking it up where they left off and Im one of them.
He added: In a sense, you dont need more than the scar and the glasses, you kind of go, There it is, and I dont really know how to put it into words. Its just immeasurably exciting and I cant wait to show it to people.
Rowling also shared her thoughts on Miller as Ginny Weasley Potter: I think a lot of people would like to have Poppys Ginny for a mother. Kind and cool, exactly as I imagined her.
But given how tight-lipped the Potter mastermind was on the subject of Albus, we can be sure that Harrys son will be the catalyst for plenty of drama:
Theres much I could say about Sam-as-Albus, but wed be into spoiler territory so quickly Ill just say we couldnt have cast better.
Throughout the week, Pottermore plans to roll out new images of the other characters from Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. What are your predictions for the next revealed wizards?
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On Sunday night, Greys Anatomy actor and activist Jesse Williams won a humanitarian award at the BET Awards, and stole the show.
If you havent seen the video or read the transcript, you should. It was one of the most lucid and heartfelt critiques of systemic racism, institutional violence, cultural appropriation and exploitation, and a love letter to black women who have spent their lifetimes dedicated to nurturing everyone before themselves. We can and will do better for you.
Weve been floating this country on credit for centuries, yo. And were done watching, and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us. Burying black people out of sight and out of mind, while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil black gold. Ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them. Gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit. The thing is, though, the thing is, that just because were magic doesnt mean were not real.
It was electrifying. He was calm, poised, focused, unflinching and light-skinned.
Of the millions of conversations that happened online, in solidarity and in complaint, one that caught my own light-skinned eye was a heartfelt exchange about whats called colorism and the easier time that people of lighter hues have in the world. Did Jesse Williams, a light-skinned man, have the credentials to speak this way?
Eve Ewing, a sociologist who studies race, racism and inequality in the public schools, and who uses her Twitter feed to hold difficult conversations about race, took the opportunity to discuss colorism. The conversation is uncomfortable because it threatens to divide us, says Ewing, even within families. She posted data showing that darker skinned students fare worse in schools and are disproportionately punished than their light skinned peers.
Light-skinned people also get shorter prison sentences. There is also some nascent data on colorism and how it may play out in hiring situations, she says. Bottom line, we end up better educated, offered better jobs and yes, occasionally win awards.
These are the sorts of implicit biases that are so deeply ingrained that they are hard to surface. But these difficult conversations help us remember that there is more than one type of black person, she says.
The key is embracing the privilege openly, which is exactly what Jesse Williams has always done. And it doesnt undermine our ability to do justice work.
