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: Rowling’s Process – Insights from a 2015 Interview. Join me after the jump for the insights Prof. Groves’ found, in an interview J. K. Rowling gave seven years ago today, to publicise Career of Evil. [Read more…]
Pillar Post Updates
October 30, 2022 by 6 Comments
The Hogwarts Professor has now amassed 2,774 posts (and counting) and regularly achieves more than 2,000 unique visits per day. There are scholarly articles of literary analysis both from our own eminent faculty and guest posts from leading lights among our close readers. This vast trove of material is a valuable resource for students of J. K. Rowling’s work and artistry (such as myself), but it can be frustrating to quickly find that article you know you read – but can’t remember the title. It is fun of course, to find that one new sweet at the bottom of the bag you thought you’d finished. My aim is to better signpost where those sweets might be hiding. Join me after the jump to find out more:
Beatrice Groves – Scaramouche’s Fandango in Ink Black Heart
October 26, 2022 by 5 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: Scaramouche’s Fandango in Ink Black Heart. Join me after the jump for Prof. Groves’ look at music as metaphor, scaffold and clue in Rowling’s Ink Black Heart.
Beatrice Groves – The Warlock’s Ink Black Heart
October 1, 2022 by 14 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: The Warlock’s Ink Black Heart. Join me after the jump for Prof. Groves’ for a look at the heart as metaphor in Rowling’s writings – past, present and, enticingly, works yet to come.
Beatrice Groves – Ink Black Heart: Hits and Misses
September 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 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
And a post publication look at the parallels with Half Blood Prince in the Rowling Library Magazine:
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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