Australian rugby player Harry Potter has already heard all the puns. He better brace himself for a few more after being picked Friday to play for his country for the first time — fittingly in ...

Potter was born in London in December 1997 — six months after “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” the first of Rowling’s series of world-famous novels, was released. He moved to ...

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