Strike 9 to Heads to Portsmouth!

September 18, 2025 by Leave a Comment

J. K. Rowling has changed her Twitter (X) header and updated her profile picture with dramatic turquoise pendant earrings. The image is of Tower Alley situated at the the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour on the south coast of England, the UK’s largest naval base. The tower in the background is Round Tower. Built on the orders of King Henry V in 1418, it originally housed a defensive chain that could be raised to protect the harbour from enemy shipping. I can’t find an exact match for this photograph online, so it is likely that this is her own creation, and she has physically scouted this location for the next Strike book.

Although most fans are still digesting the wonderfully complex plot of The Hallmarked Man, J. K. Rowling has recently reiterated that her headers are usually clues to future books, it is probably a good time to remind ourselves of the headers most likely to refer to Strike 9. With The Hallmarked Man carrying themes of pregnancy, childbirth and babies, the images of a tree-house and scattered dolls, might mean a childhood theme for the next in the series.

All of J. K. Rowling’s headers can be found here, but the Strike 9 headers are reproduced below:

25th January 2025 View from York city walls showing York Minster cathedral.

4th April 2025 A stock image of a tree house from here.

18th April 2025 This appears to be an AI generated image, judging from the distortion visible in the doll’s faces.

17th September 2025 Tower Alley in Portsmouth. Between the buildings can be seen the Round Tower, a 15th century fortification.

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Rowling Promises Future in Which Today’s Gender Identity Champions Claim They Were Always Gender Critical

August 4, 2025 by Leave a Comment

I am not an “OG TERF” as I am not a “feminist” by any stretch of the imagination.

I can, however, offer proof that I have from the beginning of this public controversy involving Rowling about Gender Identity vs Gender Critical stood with those saying sex is real. From my ‘Rowling Returns to Twitter with a Bang‘ post about Rowling’s 19 December 2019 tweet heard round the word in support of Maya Forstater: [Read more…]

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J. K. Rowling Twitter Header Dolls

April 29, 2025 by 2 Comments

On 18th April J. K. Rowling updated her Twitter (currently known as X) header with what must be her scariest picture yet. Seven dolls, with multi-coloured hair, lying on bare floorboards. No hints yet whether this is a clue to Strike-Ellacott 9, or another project. The Twitter Strike Sleuths have been scratching their heads. Some internet lunatics commentators, have linked the header to scathing comments by Pedro Pascal, shown in most stories to be wearing a “Protect the Dolls” T-shirt. Unfortunately for this theory, the comments were made on 22nd April, four days after the header change.

All of J. K. Rowling’s Twitter headers can be found here.

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J. K. Rowling Tree House Twitter Header

April 6, 2025 by 3 Comments

On Friday night, J. K. Rowling changed her Twitter (currently called X) header from the view of York Minster cathedral to a stock image of a tree house. Its fair to assume this is too late to be Hallmarked Man related, but could this be Strike-Ellacott 9 related? All of J. K. Rowling’s Twitter (currently known as X) headers can be found here. Let me know what you think in the comments!

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Meanwhile Back in the Rowling Universe

March 31, 2025 by 3 Comments

It has been two weeks since the publication of Sunrise on the Reaping and almost all posts here at Hogwarts Professor have been about the second prequel novel of Suzanne Collins, her fifth Hunger Games effort.

What has happened in the world of J. K. Rowling, also known as Robert Galbraith, in that time?

Judging from her twitter feed, not very much — except for victory laps and scalp taking in the Trans Wars, as that conflict winds down. Her Gender Critical views, once considered radioactive and the height of bigotry, are now sweeping the Public Square. There has been little to no news about Harry Potter or Cormoran Strike for weeks but there have been tweet after tweet about the remnant resistance to “Reality Based” medicine, especially on the political left, about abuse of women in Islamic countries (not to include ‘Asian’ grooming gangs in the UK), and even a little support for Ukraine in response to the United States telling Zelensky the free ride is over (TDS? Check).

There is good news in this. The best of that good news is Rowling’s claim on 3 March (above) that her activity on Twixter is a very, very small part of her day’s labors, 90% of which is dedicated to writing her novels.

The almost as good news in her communication this month with her 14 million+ followers is that her battle with Gender Theory Extremists has largely been won, in no small part due to her sacrificial efforts of resistance to the nightmare that was “transgenderism” at its peak. Her tweets on this subject are now bold, brassy, and largely unforgiving with respect to those who rode the wave of popular opinion and scientistic propaganda.

One tweet that touched on friends from the Potter franchise who threw her under the Knight Bus in conformity with the TWAW Herd caused a grand kerfuffle: [Read more…]

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