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Nine-year-old
Miranda may look like a normal everyday girl but she is actually
one of the 30 greatest wizard minds in the country!
She
beat 1,200 children from across the UK to win a truly wizard prize
after entering a Harry Potter Wizard Quest competition at Ottakar's
bookshop in Cheltenham.
After
answering five qualifying questions about JK Rowling's books and
other magical things correctly, the county schoolgirl beat 14 other
wannabe wizards in the the local heat of the Wizard Quest.
Miranda
said: "Some of the questions were quite hard to work out but
once you worked out what to do the answers were easy."
Then
she won through to the final 30 in the national competition with
her answer to the question: "What would you ask JK Rowling
if you met her?"
Miranda
said: "I asked did you base Hogwarts on any castle you've seen and
did you base any characters on anyone you know?"
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prize is a day at Alnwick Castle - Hogwarts in two Harry Potter
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On
Friday, the day before the launch of Harry Potter and the Order
of the Phoenix, the fifth book in the Harry Potter series, Miranda
and her mother Victoria will travel to the magical medieval surroundings
of a Alnwick Castle in Northumberland for the Grand Wizard Quest
Final.
After
a tour of the castle - which became Hogwarts School of Witchcraft
and Wizardry in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry
Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - the finalists will take The
Wizard Quest Challenge, a 30-minute exam followed by secret interactive
tasks.
The
four ultimate winners will get tickets to a world-exclusive Harry
Potter event at The Royal Albert Hall on June 26 - JK Rowling's
only public appearance in support of the launch of the book.
The
Albert Hall event features a live audience with the creator of Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, in conversation with Stephen
Fry, narrator of the Harry Potter UK audiobooks.
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Miranda's
mum Victoria said: "She reads a lot and it is a fantastic reward
for a child who reads a lot.
"So
often children's competitions don't have great prizes - but this
has just got the most amazing prize before you've even won it. Miranda
is only in the final round."
Whether
or not she wins the final on Friday, Miranda and all her fellow
examinees will tuck into a wizard feast of Headless Nick's Cheesy
Chips, Malfoy's BBQ sausages and Ron's Runny Pasta, followed by
Moaning Myrtle's Jittering Jelly, all washed down by flagons of
Polyjuice Potion.
After
that the wizards will be entertained until the stroke of midnight,
when they will all be presented with a copy of the fifth Harry Potter
novel, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
>>Find
out more about fun in county bookstores
to mark the book launch this weekend and Gloucestershire's Harry
Potter connections
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