Twenty years ago! I doubt she likes ‘the look’ today, but her answers to the interviewer’s questions reflect the intensity of Rowling’s artistry and her commitment to a project she is not close to finishing. Enjoy!
Happy Christmas everyone! If you'd like to get in the mood #harrypotter style, I've written two posts about the final Christmas of the series @leaky: https://t.co/VF4zfRnpV3 pic.twitter.com/qbdQxkhBCS
— Beatrice Groves (@beatricegroves1) December 24, 2018
Does reading / watching the #HarryPotter series help get you in the festive spirit? @beatricegroves1 (author of 'Literary Allusion in Harry Potter') delves into Christmas imagery and themes throughout the series, and the significance of the Christmas Rose: https://t.co/8OMoJ54ZAQ pic.twitter.com/2QUAr5iyPc
— The Leaky Cauldron (@leaky) December 23, 2018
Merry Christmas Eve! 🎄⛄️⭐️ Part 2 of @beatricegroves1's analysis of @jk_rowling's Christmas imagery in the #HarryPotter series is here: https://t.co/LB45RPJFaM pic.twitter.com/buVjK7aeE6
— The Leaky Cauldron (@leaky) December 24, 2018
If you’re not a subscriber to ‘The Rowling Library,’ an online magazine sent out as a free pdf to readers around the world, you’re missing out. Get thee hence to TheRowlingLibrary.com, download the latest issue — a special devoted to all things Crimes of Grindelwald — and then be sure to scroll around their site.
The editors and House-Elves there, for example, have recreated the original JKRowling.com, the site that existed 2002-2012, for fan searching and discoveries. There’s a collector’s guide as well and a very handy (and extensive) list of Rowling’s appearances through the years.
The production values of the magazine are first rank and the content is pretty good, too. And I hope I’m not saying that just because they’ve reprinted HogwartsProfessor posts (with permission asked for and received). It’s a serious bunch of fandom researchers and writers from quite literally every continent except Anarctica.
Enjoy! (And tell Patricio “John sent me.”)
Update: Link fixed!
Beatrice Groves, author of Literary Allusion in Harry Potter (a great holiday present to self or other Potter Pundits you know), recently gave an interview on the merits of Harry Potter as literature on an American radio station in Utah.
You can listen — via this link to BYU Radio’s online archives — to Lisa Valentine Clark‘s talk with the resident Hogwarts maven and Serious Striker at Trinity College, Oxford University. Enjoy!
Evanna and Keo scored 30 out of 30 on this free-style dance and another 30 out of 30 on their tango repeat. Though they received perfect scores from the judges, the votes from the audience and online put them in third place out of the four couples competing. Read the story here.
More dancing — that tango — and an interview with Evanna and Keo after the jump! Read More “‘Team Luna’ at Dancing With the Stars”