Rowling-Galbraith has suggested that the Strike series of ten books will end before the Covid lockdowns of 2020, which gives an endpoint to the series as plotted currently.

Given how ‘on board’ the author was with the ‘Save the NHS’ messaging, the huzzahs for the medical professionals who participated in the Covid-19 pandemic, and her enthusiasm, even cheerleading, for mRNA inoculations, I have to wonder if this deadline of convenience has less to do ultimately with the difficulties of writing a detective story during London Lockdown than the commitment of the Guilty to ‘forget’ their part in the nightmare of the last three years. “Don’t Let Them Get Away With It.”

Does anyone else among the Royal Society of Rowling Readers wish that The Presence would attempt something akin to what the Indiana Jones’ film makers have done? Imagine a world in which every decade or five years saw Warner Brothers Discovery create and release a blockbuster movie, a one-off adventure rather than a series, set in the scenes we know well from their adaptations of the Hogwarts Saga novels and with one or two of the characters.

Feel free to explain in the comment boxes why this will never happen, especially if you’re glad it is impossible or you really dislike Harrison Ford’s ‘Indiana Jones’ legacy. Me? I rarely go to theaters to see films, but I think I will go to see ‘Dial of Destiny’ before I watch the third Fantastic Beasts film or read the ‘Original Screenplay,’ the only Rowling product I have not studied closely. Must be an old man thing!

Happy Easter, Western Christians!

A dear friend, Lancelot Schaubert, sent me the picture below this morning, an image from a church, I’m assuming, somewhere in New York City. It’s of a hearth/altar whose carved centerpiece is a Pelican, a mother feeding her chicks from her own blood:

If you want to know the connection between this image, Rowling, Ink Black Heart, Christ’s sacrificial, maternal love and His relationship with the members of His mystical body in the Eucharist, not to mention my work, scroll down this Strike6 post to read ‘The Pelican At Last.’

Again, Happy Easter! And thank you, Lancelot, for the wonderful picture.