With The Hallmarked Man launch coming ever closer and J. K. Rowling treating us to a new Twitter Header, Beatrice Groves, Research Fellow and tutor at Trinity College, Oxford, and author of Literary Allusion in Harry Potter, has written a Hogwarts Professor Guest Post: The Golden Journey to The Hallmarked Man.
Beatrice Groves – The Golden Journey to The Hallmarked Man
August 5, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Popular Culture Catches up to Chiasmus in Harry Potter
July 17, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Entertainment web magazine Screen Rant has discovered the chiastic form of the Harry Potter series, seemingly from first principles. Senior staff writer, Angel Shaw, noticed that the later novels reflected the earlier ones and wanted to know if they were the first to discover it.
Once I noticed the Harry Potter series’ reflective nature, I went to the internet to see if anyone else had reached the same conclusion. Of course, they had, and I quickly dove into what has come to be called the “ring composition” or “chiastic” theory of Harry Potter, analyzed stupendously by John Granger.
Anyone who wishes to dig deeper into ring composition can see the pillar post here, or read John Granger’s book Harry Potter as Ring Composition and Ring Cycle. John’s most recent work, the stupendously epic Running Grave: Ring Reading, can be found here.
Beatrice Groves – Secrets of the Red Room
June 22, 2024 by 6 Comments
With The Hallmarked Man on the horizon and J. K. Rowling treating us to a new Twitter Header, Beatrice Groves, Research Fellow and tutor at Trinity College, Oxford, and author of Literary Allusion in Harry Potter, has written a Hogwarts Professor Guest Post: Secrets of the Red Room.
Rowling Studies Podcast – Sark, Snark and Censorship
April 10, 2024 by 1 Comment
Join John and Nick as they explore the strange and quirky island of Sark, take a look at the latest J. K. Rowling twitter storms and stand in admiration of her heroic stand against judicial free-speech suppression in Scotland. Sark, Snark and Censorship.
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Roses from Rowling – A Solution at Last!
April 9, 2024 by 4 Comments
My conjecture then was:
1. Assistance in developing or correcting the occult/demonic/satanic aspects of Troubled Blood. He doesn’t appear in the acknowledgments, but perhaps this is understandable given Rowling’s experience of the American evangelical backlash to Potter.
2. Thanks for supporting Johnny Depp, or in response to Manson’s thanks to Rowling for standing with him.
3. Something to do with The Ink Black Heart.
None were particularly compelling, and The Ink Black Heart turned out to be a bust. Much like the mystery of the 50 roses in Career of Evil I had assumed this may be a mystery that would never be solved. That was until last Sunday, when at last there was a plausible explanation.
A Twitter user posted that the roses were for the 1980’s British and Jamaican pop singer Marilyn. Marylin has been a long time supporter of J. K. Rowling and has received more than a little push back from fellow gender non-conforming men as a result.
The story goes that the error was made (presumably by her office, Marilyn not exactly well known outside of his fanbase) and Rowling contacted him to apologise. The story was related by Marilyn himself during a Twitter space, and has this Rowling student convinced. Let me know in the comments what you think, does this close the case?
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