Remember the scientific research that showed that breast milk was better for babies than infant formula? How about the inane questions on the teevee show, ‘Family Feud,’ the questions that gave us the prefacing statement before revelations of democratic truth-isms, ‘Survey says…’? What follows is a combination of both. The Wand Company took an unofficial poll of those fans who gathered pre-dawn outside Harrod’s for the first crack at the HP7B Blu-Ray disc offering (for some reason sale of this item was delayed in the UK). The results are almost exactly what you’d expect but are heartening nonetheless. Make the jump to read the press release, survey results, and Wand Company information!

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The mailbag at HogwartsProfessor has been especially heavy the last few weeks and the variety of requests for help, notices of important events, and suggestions of topics for coverage here has been impressively diverse. How about a Post Potter Depression Clothing Line? George R. R. Martin’s Ice and Fire books? The link between the reading habits of Potter-philes and the greatest of all self-help mages, Dale Carnegie? A Canadian Hogwarts in revolt against its Slytherin-esque Ministry — a liberal Bishop? A skype HogPro interview with a Bogota teevee station — filmed at McDonalds? The forgotten ‘yellow’ stage of alchemy? Welcome to my world!

Before I head out for the east coast for my second trip to Virginia in less than a fortnight, I thought I’d empty out the bag with my e-responses for your comment and correction. Let’s start with the letter cum request from Pakistan that I have to suspect is a hoax, if I have no reason beyond cynicism for believing it is.

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A guest post from Viktor Richardson:

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A note from Christopher De Morrow about seeing and not-seeing in the series:

Dear John,

I recently finished Order, and came across a passage that seems to make sense of an aspect of the series that I’ve been wondering about. Everyone in the parallel magical world is able to hide their great secret, although it seems pretty haphazzard. So many of the people, actions, and even buildings of the magical world intrude upon our own muggle world that it seems impossible that they aren’t more widely known. I think Rowling let us in on the principal reason why when the group visits Mr. Weasley at St. Mungo’s:

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