As of today, it’s one month until The Hunger Games DVD is released, so we’ll be revisiting some of our favorite topics about the Girl on Fire and the Boy with the Bread, but as filming for Catching Fire approaches, all the talk is about Victors of previous Games. Now in place, a firey Johanna, an award-winning Wiress and Plutarch, and a dream”boat” Finnick. Join me after the jump for some thoughts on why these choices may actually bode very well for the Quarter Quell next year. [Read more…]
Our Finnick is a Jolly Sailor Bold, and More Catching Fire Casting News
July 18, 2012 by 1 Comment
‘Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Book 1, Sorcerer’s Stone’
June 4, 2012 by 6 Comments
Beginning tonight and continuing for seven weeks, God allowing, I will be giving free talks at Oklahoma City’s biggest independent bookstore, Full Circle Books, about each of the seven Harry Potter novels. The title of the first program, which I hope will be a template for the next six, is, as you read above, ‘Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Book 1, Sorcerer’s Stone.’ If you’re in the neighborhood, it will start at 7 pm and end at 8. If not, Mary is filming it for posting at iTunes someday.
If you’ve been hanging around this web site, of course, and have read one or more of my books, the ‘Ten Things You Didn’t Know’ may very well be the things you not only know very well but have shared with friends yourself. But I’m pretty sure that most of what I cover won’t be found in Steve Vander Ark’s Reader’s Guide to Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone or even Dr. Graeme Davis’ Re-Read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Here are the ten points and a first chapter trivia quiz:
Order of the Phoenix: The Woes of Mrs. Weasley and Luna Lovegood (Chapters 9&10)[JAB]
February 6, 2008 by 1 Comment
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Chapters 9-10
Mark True statements with a “T” and False statements with an “F.” Write your answers to the discussion points in the com boxes below.
1._____ Harry, Ron, and Mr. Weasley meet Lucius Malfoy in the Department of Mysteries after Harry’s Wizengamut trial. In their first meeting since the Voldemort re-birthing, Harry tells the Death Eater he is good at escaping.
2._____ Harry dumps a bag of galleons into the Fountain of Magical Brethren – and notices that the statues are anything but life-like (except for the house-elf).
3._____ Everyone is delighted that Harry “got off” except Sirius Black who seems a little moody after Harry’s return to Grimmauld Place. Harry wonders if he wasn’t hoping that he’d have someone to keep him company at Headquarters. [Read more…]
Order of the Phoenix: The Ministry of Magic and The Hearing (Chapters 7&8)[JAB]
February 5, 2008 by 1 Comment
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Chapters 7-8
Mark True statements with a “T” and False statements with an “F.” Write your answers to the discussion points in the com boxes below.
1._____Harry, Mr. Weasley, and Padfoot take the Underground to the Ministry of Magic, which they enter through a telephone booth after dialing 6-4-2-4-2.
2._____ Harry promises to put ten Galleons into the Fountain of Magical Brethren, if he is not expelled from Hogwarts. The Statue features a witch, a wizard, a goblin, a centaur, and a house-elf. The last three seem to be adoring the first two. [Read more…]
Order of the Phoenix: The Order of the Phoenix and The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black (Chapters 5&6)
January 30, 2008 by 1 Comment
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Chapters 5-6
Mark True statements with a “T” and False statements with an “F.” Write your answers to the discussion points in the com boxes below.
1._____ Harry, Hermione, and the Weasley children come to dinner as the Order of the Phoenix meeting in the kitchen breaks up. Tonks, Fred, and George help Molly cook and serve dinner, but the twins get an earful for too much magic…
2._____ Mundungus apologizes to Harry for skipping out on his guard duty. The thief isn’t very popular with Mrs. Weasley because he seems, in her opinion, to “have missed a few crucial lessons” in learning about right and wrong.
3._____ Sirius asks Harry why he hasn’t asked any questions about Voldemort and the room freezes. Molly and Sirius have a row about Dumbledore’s instructions that they not tell Harry “more than he needs to know.” Lupin sides with Padfoot. [Read more…]
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