Thoughts for the Serious Reader of Harry Potter
This morning J. K. Rowling revealed that she has twice turned down the offer of a Life Peerage of the United Kingdom. This in response to a fan questioning the news that Conservative Party leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch would recommend her for a peerage again.
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Rowling has accepted two honours from the crown, an OBE in 2000 and the Order of Merit in 2017.
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.
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.
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.
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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