Every winter, Hogwarts students return home and celebrate Christmas with their families. However, given their extensive use of magic, it does not seem likely they'd understand Christianity the way muggles would. How and why do wizards observe Christmas?

What is it? An animated movie, full length (I think ) What it isn't: It's not La Planète sauvage/Fantastic planet and it's not Gandahar What made it memorable: Animation was very trippy (at least in my memory) and main protagonist was a child with blue skin and bald head. When and where did you see this film?: Late 80's, early 90's. I saw it in the cinema, so I guess it must be a full length film but in that time and in my country they could actually be showing several glued together episodes of a TV-series. Other details : I went to the cinema with a babysitter who knew French. She translated the title to me roughly as "Lue, child of Earth" (although I'm not sure that it was written in French, she didn't know English and could have read that in French by mistake). I was able to find this French TV-show called Blue, Child of the Earth/Bleu, l'enfant de la Terre which looks painfully close apart from it being a TV-series and not a full le...

We see that Finn can fight with a lightsaber, first on Takodana against strormtroopers and later on Starkiller base against Ren. Is this something that's part of his back story that we're going to find out later, or is there some little-known fact about Stormtroopers that they're trained in hand-to-hand combat with non-projectile weapons? If memory serves, this is the first of the films that shows a stormtrooper brandishing anything besides a blaster-type weapon; as such, there's never been any suggestion that they are trained with other types of weapons. Answer Because he was trained for it In " Before the Awakening " book (Disney canon book that is a prequel to Episode VII, detailing Finn's training), Finn's chapter covers this in detail: The following morning they started on intensive melee combat training. This was done outside the simulators, in one of the exercise rooms designated for the purpose. Previously, FN-2187 and the others had trained...

I watched a film that was made before 2009. In one of the scenes, near the end, a girl (who is either an alien or a clone) and a human man get in a car, her arm is cut by a screw and there is blue stuff under her skin (I assume this is blood) and then because of the cut she is now going to die. There is also a young boy who I think is also an alien or a clone and maybe he dies at the end. It might be based in the future. I know this isn't anything to go on but if anyone knows even a handful of films with a similar scene it would really help.

Throughout the Harry Potter series, Professor Trelawney makes many different prophecies and predictions. Although most of them are implied to be nonsense, often enough they still get fulfilled. Which ones have come true? Which ones have been proven false? Which ones are still possible? How many of Trelawney's prophecies have come true? I'm not asking if Divination in Harry Potter is real, or what it is. I am asking for a finite list of which of Trelawney's prophecies came true, and which ones didn't.

I read this sci-fi book back around 1987 that my father had finished. My memory of the book is sadly very limited, but the emotion of enjoying it string prompting me to try and remember it. My clear memories are it is set in a spaceship, there is a crew (or team) that might have been space pirates or thieves of some sort. The encounter an alien of some type that I believe was described as spider-like with ultrathin (practically invisible to the human eye) legs that could slice through the members of the crew. I know this is very little to go on, but does this ring a bell with anyone? I'd love to re-read it now that I'm older. Answer I think this may be George R. R. Martin's " Tuf Voyaging ". In the first part of the book, a team of archeologists and mercenaries discover the Ark, a huge and powerful ecological war ship dating from a long-past interstellar war. The team falls apart quickly as everyone tries to gain control of the ship for themself. One of the merc...

In Man of Steel , (spoilers) Zod unleashes the World Engine and sends it to the opposite side of the planet from Metropolis. Can we deduce the real-world location of Metropolis based upon where the other piece was? Is the location on the shore of the Indian Ocean distinctive enough that we could discover where the opposite point on the Earth is? Maybe a specific place where that particular type of fishing is most common. Anyway, it would be interesting if we could discover the location of The Big Apricot this way. Answer Using this map tool , I ran along the entire shoreline of the Indian Ocean. If you went straight through the earth, most of the time you would end up in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The only place I found that actually has land on the other side is on the Western shore of Indonesia, which puts you in Venezuela or Colombia if you went straight through the earth. Metropolis does not appear to be located in South America, given the U.S. Military presence there, and ...