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: Hits and Misses.

Prof. Groves has posted three prediction posts on the run up to publication:

Ink Bottles, Anodos and Anomie

Ink Black Corvids: Magpies, Alchemy and Ink Black Heart

Ink Black Heart Predictions

And a post publication look at the parallels with Half Blood Prince in the Rowling Library Magazine:

The Ink Black Prince

Join me after the jump to read Prof. Groves round up of her prediction hits, misses and expectations yet to come!

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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.

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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.

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