Lord Voldemort har återvänt och Trollkarlsministeriet gör allt som står i deras makt för att inte avslöja sanningen för trollkarlssamhället. Bland annat utses professor Dolores Umbridge till ny lärare i Försvar mot Svartkonst på Hogwarts. Hennes lektioner lämnar dock de unga eleverna inkapabla att försvara sig mot de mörka krafter som hotar den. Efter lite övertalning från Hermione och Ron tar Harry saken i egna händer och tränar i hemlighet upp en liten grupp elever inför strid i svartkonst som han vet väntar dem.
Dr Alithea Binnie är nöjd med livet och ser på världen med en sund skepsis. Trots detta möter hon en Djinn, en ande, som erbjuder henne tre önskningar i utbyte mot hans frihet. Detta är dock ett problem, då hon är en forskare inom berättelser och känner till alla fällor om önskningar som har gått fel. Han för sin talan genom att berätta fantastiska historier om sitt förflutna för henne. Till slut blir hon förförd och gör en önskan som förvånar dem båda.
When a scholar is haunted by an overwhelming desire to understand the mystery of sex, he decides to conduct an investigation. With two beautiful assistants joining the case, the stakes are raised.
Eliezer och Uriel är far och son, men också rivaler inom sitt forskningsfält. De har ägnat sina liv åt sitt arbete och Uriel strävar hela tiden efter faderns erkännande. När Eliezer tilldelas en prestigefull akademisk utmärkelse slits Uriel mellan stolthet och avundsjuka.
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.
Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Don, the Andrews' 11-year-old son, eagerly accepts the English boy, and is happy when his school-friends do the same. But his isn't so happy when things begin to change when his father fore-goes their evening game of Chinese Checkers to play chess with Hugh, and Hugh shows himself to be a formidable scholar, and impresses Don's girlfriend Betty, and becomes more popular with the boys than Don was...and Don is beginning to think that Hugh is too much of a good thing. Don gets downright depressed and decides to run away. Uh, oh, here comes Hugh.
Virgil, a college writing student, hopes to have his latest story published, but he must first get over one major hurdle before his work gets out to the world, his mercurial writing professor Richard Laymen.
Being educated and knowing how drink, A-Ni is seen as the town's madwoman. Yulu is entranced by her.
A winemaker overcomes the ignorance and illiteracy of his era to become a Torah commentator who defends the right to spiritual choice and freedom in the 11th century.