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By authors|Posted Thursday, Aug. 26, 1999, at 3:33 PM ET

It's not a succubus or a melusine, it's a lamia, as reader Mark H. Nelson points out in his message. Thank you, Mark.

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31054AMFridayOctOctober310/19/2001 7:10:54 AM631390578540000000This week, a discussion of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (click here to buy the book), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (click here to buy the book), and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (click here to buy the book). The first chapter of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is available here. Polly Shulman, a contributing editor at Science, writes a column about children's books forSalon. A.O. Scott is a regular contributor to Slate.