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Hogwarts Headache

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Hogwarts Headache
A 'condition' that occurs when a person reads a long book—e.g., J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the longest in the Harry Potter franchise at 870 pages—without interruption, while seated in an uncomfortable position, named for the fictional school of wizardry


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Hogwarts headache AN acute headache produced in readers of the Harry Potter books and caused by uninterrupted reading sessions of several hours.
A children's doctor has discovered an illness he's dubbed Hogwarts Headaches caused by kids spending hours on end wading through JK Rowling's latest 870-page blockbuster on the boy wizard.
 
 
 
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