Less than 24 hours until the biggest publishing event of the year, and the excitement at Hogwarts Professor is palpable. Beatrice Groves, Research Lecturer and tutor at Trinity College, Oxford, and author of Literary Allusion in Harry Potter, has written a Hogwarts Professor Guest Post: Ink Black Heart Predictions. The final of three posts in the run up to publication day tomorrow. Join me after the jump for Prof. Groves’ best guesses based on both close reading of the previous books and other revelations, for The Ink Black Heart.
Beatrice Groves: Ink Black Corvids: Magpies, Alchemy and Ink Black Heart
August 27, 2022 by 10 Comments
Beatrice Groves, Research Lecturer and tutor at Trinity College, Oxford, and author of Literary Allusion in Harry Potter, has written a Hogwarts Professor Guest Post: Ink Black Corvids: Magpies, alchemy and Ink Black Heart. Join me after the jump for Prof. Groves’ delve into all things crow and Cormoran. This is the second of three posts by Beatrice in the run up to publication day. [Read more…]
Beatrice Groves – Ink-Bottles, Anodos and Anomie
August 26, 2022 by 4 Comments
Beatrice Groves, Research Lecturer and tutor at Trinity College, Oxford, and author of Literary Allusion in Harry Potter, has written a Hogwarts Professor Guest Post: Ink-Bottles, Anodos and Anomie: Mary Elizabeth Coleridge and the epigraphs of Ink Black Heart. Join me after the jump for Prof. Groves’ introduction to how this all but forgotten poet could, very neatly, fit into The Ink Black Heart. This is the first of three posts by Beatrice in the run up to publication day.
Ink Black Heart – The Five Day Countdown Begins!
August 25, 2022 by Leave a Comment
It is that strange time before publication, when its too late to start a new book (I’ve just finished Great Expectations on very good advice) and too long to wait for the new book. For those who are tempted: Apple Books have release the first 120 pages as a preview, and for the rest of us, we must keep ourselves busy. To help us pass the time productively, Beatrice Groves- Research Lecturer and tutor at Trinity College, Oxford, and author of Literary Allusion in Harry Potter, will present three articles on Friday, Saturday and Sunday to whet our appetites.
Someone who is certainly keeping herself busy (and at work too!) is J. K. Rowling:
Meant to retweet this yesterday but was hard at work and forgot! Only 5 days to go now… https://t.co/PmarVy43yj
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) August 25, 2022
Which of course begs the question – what is she working on? Could it be ‘Love Stories for the Rich and Desperate’? ‘Final Cries of Men’? a new chapter in the Fantastic Beasts franchise or cracking on with Strike 7? She has surprised us before with two unexpected children’s books, so really anything is on the table. Let me know what you think down below.
Ink Black Heart – Anomie Online
August 24, 2022 by 2 Comments
Of all the characters playfully enjoying the run up to publication day on Twitter, none is more intriguing than Anomie. He has tweeted only thirty two times since joining twitter in June, including the deleted “Sister from another mr.” tweet, which is a possible misidentification for Mary Elizabeth Coleridge. It is notable that an image search for “Mary Elizabeth Coleridge” delivers a photograph for Mary Mapes Dodge and another of Emily Dickenson, explaining both the error by Anomie and our Headmaster. I can in fact only find one genuine photograph of Coleridge online.
There are several clues that Anomie has left. An Emily Dickenson poem, shortly after the audio snippet was revealed:
Tweet, tweet. pic.twitter.com/sQ8ymi4AjN
— Anomie (@AnomieInkBlack) August 14, 2022
And a snippet from Cattulus 8– advice to himself.
Time flies. https://t.co/gqZ9DsMo4I
— Anomie (@AnomieInkBlack) August 21, 2022
There are of course the pictures we discussed on Monday to which Anomie left the following cryptic reply:
Look again. Look closer. Look not at the words.
Yes, I believe this is the same Anomie that posts on Twitter, where he has left similar messages:
The trick is always to look beyond the silhouettes and look in the shadows. https://t.co/SDogOm8Ty7
— Anomie (@AnomieInkBlack) August 11, 2022
What do you think these messages are hinting at? Let me know in the comments down below!
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