What is the meaning of the Deathly Hallows final words, “All was well”? Was Ms. Rowling referring to a favorite author or poet in choosing them?

For serious readers of Harry Potter, these are important questions, right? I’ve taken some long looks at this previously and the best I came up with was Eliot’s “All shall be well” in The Four Quartets which, in turn, is an echo of Julian of Norwich. Odd Sverre Hove in Bergen, Norway, rocked my world Tuesday in finding what I think is the more likely source of Ms. Rowling’s fare-well “All was well.” [Read more…]

What happened? Where did HogPro go?

Long story short: the company that holds the domain name, in Keystone Kops fashion, sent notices that our annual fee was due to an email address of a school where I used to work. When I didn’t pay the bill I didn’t know I had, they turned off the lights. Then, when they turned the lights back on, they pointed the site to their servers which hosted the site way back when (until May 2007). Hence the old school look the last few days. When they finally pointed the site at our server somewhere near New Delhi, it then took 72 hours for restoration of the site on the web. Allentown and Spokane came online again Monday afternoon; Seattle, Rochester, and Connecticut had been up days earlier. Go figure. I have tried to post since but bugs in the machinery eat the posts before they get to the screen.

Anyway, thank you to those who wrote, to the friends who figured out what was happening and fixed the problem, and to those who held my hand and endured my fits of impatience during Clean Week while we waited. It’s good to be back — and about time for me to finish off the ten part series comparing the critical reception of Harry Potter and the Twilight Saga. Tomorrow, though, a real find by Odd in Scandanavia — the probable origin of the “All is well” finish to Deathly Hallows in a story-ending by one of Ms. Rowling’s favorite authors. Stay tuned!

This is Travis Prinzi, writing a quick note to let you know that Hogwarts Professor seems to be back in working order, for everyone except the Hogwarts Professor himself. Hopefully, John will resolve his access issues and be back to blogging in no time!

Hope you enjoyed a few days of the old school, green HogPro site, and the 2007 interlibrum predictions.

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