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By Jennifer Williams
Posted: 10/2/07, 10:05 PM EST Section: Feature
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With an unhealthy obsession for the "Harry Potter" series and a sometimes confrontational, argumentative personality, I often find myself in sticky situations when I encounter a "Harry" hater. These arguments tend to escalate as I flail my hands in indignation and raise my voice in support of Hungarian Horntails (a ferocious, fire-breathing dragon that the half-giant Hagrid finds precious). So recently, in an effort to amend my hostile ways and attempt to live amiably with those muggles who do not appreciate the wizarding world, I searched wikiHow.com for a solution to my awkward social encounters.
Thanks to an anonymous contributor, I found a page titled "How to Avoid Getting in an Argument over Harry Potter," and I bid farewell to my wicked ways by learning to, basically, take deep breaths.
Similar to Wikipedia, wikiHow hosts more than 25,000 "how-to" articles and allows users to submit their own useful, everyday encounters such as "How to Save a Wet Cell phone" and vital skills like "How to Draw a Picture of a Farmer." If you need to know how to run up and over a wall, wikiHow will give you a lift. And finally, it's painfully clear we all need to become fluent in Gibberish, and, you guessed it - wikiHow can help with that, too.
- Jennifer Williams, staff writer
With an unhealthy obsession for the "Harry Potter" series and a sometimes confrontational, argumentative personality, I often find myself in sticky situations when I encounter a "Harry" hater. These arguments tend to escalate as I flail my hands in indignation and raise my voice in support of Hungarian Horntails (a ferocious, fire-breathing dragon that the half-giant Hagrid finds precious). So recently, in an effort to amend my hostile ways and attempt to live amiably with those muggles who do not appreciate the wizarding world, I searched wikiHow.com for a solution to my awkward social encounters.
Thanks to an anonymous contributor, I found a page titled "How to Avoid Getting in an Argument over Harry Potter," and I bid farewell to my wicked ways by learning to, basically, take deep breaths.
Similar to Wikipedia, wikiHow hosts more than 25,000 "how-to" articles and allows users to submit their own useful, everyday encounters such as "How to Save a Wet Cell phone" and vital skills like "How to Draw a Picture of a Farmer." If you need to know how to run up and over a wall, wikiHow will give you a lift. And finally, it's painfully clear we all need to become fluent in Gibberish, and, you guessed it - wikiHow can help with that, too.
- Jennifer Williams, staff writer
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Amanda
posted 10/03/07 @ 8:47 PM EST
I am also a huge (obsessed)Harry Potter fan. I have met quite a few people that don't really like HP but I never had any problems with them. It is the "Harry Haters" that I HATE. (Continued…)
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