In these days people do not hospitate, but, when forced to invite 5 acquaintances into their houses they entertain them, as many as possible, at crowded receptions and teas.

With the success of the first film and the third one already in production, Warner Bros. is more likely to greet Harry Potter slashers with more takedown orders than tolerance.

[…] the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door […]

one saw and felt a vanished Broadway, plains covered with cattle and cowboys, jungles and native villages, and a great shining city of hansom-cabs, political intrigue and plushy champagne-suppers, as if one were walking through them oneself in the company of a superb raconteur and inspired liar.