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    Here's Where J.K. Rowling Got Her Magical Ideas for Harry Potter (Photos)

    A History of Magic

    Harry Potter fans rejoice — there are two tours about our wizarding hero in New York City right now.

    Harry Potter: A History of Magic is showing at the New-York Historical Society through the end of January. And Museum Hack’s The Boy Wizard tour is magicking at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as the de Young Museum in San Francisco year round.

    Both delve into the history of magic seen at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

    For instance, did you know "hocus pocus" — seen in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" when Harry menacingly teases his cousin Dudley — likely comes from the religious blessing "Hoc est corpus meum"? According to Museum Hack, the shorter "spell" is likely a perversion of the original Latin phrase, which means "this is my body."

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    In Harry's first potions class, Professor Snape exposes our hero's ignoranc